Holbein's Dance of Death and Bible Woodcuts [Illustrations of the Old Testament Engraved on Wood]

150 pp. Includes Holbein's Dance of Death, as well as Illustrations of the Old Testament Engraved on Wood. "One of Hans Holbein’s first great triumphs, The Dance of Death is an incomparable sequence of tiny woodcuts showing the folly of human greed and pride. 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 Dance of Death took an old medieval theme and made it new."