Danse Macabre facts for kids

The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Liber chronicarum by Hartmann Schedel.

Dance of Death (French: Danse Macabre; Italian: Danza Macabra; German: Totentanz) is a late-medieval allegory on death: no matter who a person is, the dance of death unites all.

Images for kids

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  Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)

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  from Holbein's Simolachri, Historie, e Figure de la Morte (In Lyone Appresso Giovan Frellone, 1549)

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  The Pedlar from Holbein's Simolachri, Historie, e Figure de la Morte (In Lyone Appresso Giovan Frellone, 1549)

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  The Plowman from Holbein's Simolachri, Historie, e Figure de la Morte, 1549

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  The Abbess from Holbein's Simolachri, Historie, e Figure de la Morte, 1549

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  Danse Macabre, a reminder of the universality of death in the St. Peter and St. Paul church, Vilnius

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  The fresco at the back wall of the chapel of Sv. Marija na Škrilinama in the Istrian town of Beram (1474), painted by Vincent of Kastav, Croatia

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  Johannes de Castua: Detail of the Dance Macabre fresco (1490) in the Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje, Slovenia

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  Dance of Death (replica of 15th century fresco; National Gallery of Slovenia)

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  The famous Danse Macabre in Hrastovlje in the Holy Trinity Church

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  Danse Macabre in St Maria in Bienno, 16th century

See also

In Spanish: Danza de la Muerte para niños