The Dance of Death (Penguin Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.35 (547 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0141396822 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-09-13 |
| Language | : | German |
DESCRIPTION:
Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. This edition reproduces a complete set from the British Museum, with many details highlighted and examples of other works in this grisly field included. Ulinka Rublack introduces the woodcuts with a remarkable essay on the late medieval Danse Macabre (the Dance of Death) and the world Holbein lived in. Each image is packed with drama, wit, and horror, as a skeleton mocks and terrifies everyone from the emperor to a ploughman. Taking full advantage of the new literary culture of the early sixteenth century, The
Her books include Reformation Europe, Dressing Up: Renaissance Cultural Identity in Europe, and The Astronomer and the Witch. Ulinka Rublack (introducer) is a professor of early modern history at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of St. . John’s College. She is the editor, with Maria Hayward, of The First Book of Fashion. His paintings of monarchs, noblemen, and me
Kilchomin said Dissappointed with the quality and lack of page numbers to locate art. The table of contents lists the woodcuts with page numbers, but the numbers do not appear on the pages! I think an editor made a big mistake there.And the reproduction of "The Knight" on the cover is sharper and shows more detail than the reproduction of any of the woodcuts within the book -- including "The Knight. Gendun said the new standard edition. My principle hope in purchasing this book is that it would be superior to the inadequate Dover edition, and it certainly is - the Holbein's arresting woodcuts are featured in larger reproductions, making them much easier to appreciate and enjoy, Includes an illuminating and useful scholarly essay.. E.T. Erlikh said I read this book but.. So I read this book butI ended up lending it to my professor who I thought would be really interested in it because of the topic. He would discuss how death isn't as commonly accepted in our society as it used to be.The thing is, I timed it really wrong I guess, because his father died like a week ago.So I'm not s
-- Nick Lezard * Guardian * . The underlying message of the series is, of course, that Death comes for us all, and if it interrupts the recreations of the wealthy rather more insolently than those of the poor, then let that be a lesson to us Rublack's commentary is useful and illuminating, pointing out details, providing information about the time Holbein lived in, and even making a plausible case for her own views on Holbein's position on the reformation