Holbein 1800s Dance of Death THE OLD MAN Original HOLLAR Engraving Framed COA

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Artist:Hans Holbein (1497-1543) by Wenceslaus Hollar
Title: \"Dance of Death: The Old Man (Plate 28)\" Here we see Death leading away, playing on a psaltery, an Old Man to the brink of the grave, bent under the load of years, and verging to the last degree of frailty. The Old man allows himself to be carried off, with that calmness and tranquility, which are the effects of wisdom, and the fruits of a good conscience.
Medium:Engraving on wove paper.
Year: 1804
Edition: Engraving after the original work of Hans Holbein by Wenceslaus Hollar.
Signature: Signedin the plate.
Condition: Excellent
Size: Plate c. 2 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches, Framed c. 13 x 14 inches.

Additional notes: This is not a modern print. This work is from the original Hollar plate. It was hand pulled from the copper plate more than 210 years ago.

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Dance of Death, also variously called Danse Macabre (French) is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one\'s station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424–25.

Biography

Hans Holbein the Younger (c.1497-1543) was a German artist and printmaker who worked in a Northern Renaissance style. He is best known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century. He also produced religious art, satire, and Reformation propaganda, and made a significant contribution to the history of book design. He is called \"the Younger\" to distinguish him from his father, Hans Holbein the Elder, an accomplished painter of the Late Gothic school.
Holbein followed in the footsteps of Augsburg artists like his father and Hans Burgkmair, who largely made their living from religious commissions. Despite calls for reform, the church in the late 15th century was medieval in tradition. It maintained an allegiance to Rome and a faith in pieties such as pilgrimages, veneration of relics, and prayer for dead souls. Holbein\'s early work reflects this culture. The growing reform movement, led by humanists such as Erasmus and Thomas More, began, however, to change religious attitudes. Basel, where Martin Luther\'s major works were published, became the main centre for the transmission of Reformation ideas.
The gradual shift from traditional to reformed religion can be charted in Holbein\'s work. His Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb of 1522 expresses a humanist view of Christ in tune with the reformist climate in Basel at the time. The Dance of Death (1523–26) refashions the late-medieval allegory of the Danse Macabre as a reformist satire. Holbein\'s series of woodcuts shows the figure of \"Death\" in many disguises, confronting individuals from all walks of life. None escape Death\'s skeleton clutches, even the pious.
Hollar produced a variety of works; his plates number some 2740, and include views, portraits, ships, religious subjects, heraldic subjects, landscapes, and still life in many different forms. His architectural drawings, such as those of Antwerp and Strassburg cathedrals, and his views of towns, are to scale, but are intended as pictures as well. He reproduced decorative works of other artists, as in the famous chalice after Mantegna\'s drawing.
Almost complete collections of Hollar\'s work are kept in the British Museum, the print room at Windsor Castle and the National Gallery in Prague. Hollar\'s oeuvre was first catalogued in 1745 (2nd ed. 1759) by George Vertue. The prints were subsequently catalogued in 1853 by Gustav Parthey and in 1982 by Richard Pennington. A new complete illustrated catalogue has been published in the New Hollstein German series. Much of his work is available online from the University of Toronto in their Wenceslaus Hollar digital collection.
There is a High School of Arts and Higher Professional Art School in Prague, named after him.

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