![]() ![]() ![]() But, all the while, the danse macabre urged them not to forget the end of all earthly things." This Danse Macabre was enacted at village pageants and at court masques, with people " dressing up as corpses from various strata of society", and may have been the origin of costumes worn during Allhallowtide. Historian Francis Rapp (1926–2020) writes that " Christians were moved by the sight of the Infant Jesus playing on his mother's knee their hearts were touched by the Pietà and patron saints reassured them by their presence. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now-lost mural at Holy Innocents' Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424 to 1425. It was produced as memento mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain are the glories of earthly life. The effect is both frivolous and terrifying, beseeching its audience to react emotionally. ![]() The Danse Macabre consists of the dead, or a personification of death, summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. The Danse Macabre ( / d ɑː n s m ə ˈ k ɑː b( r ə)/ French pronunciation: ) (from the French language), also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory of the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel ![]()
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