Ballet Posters and Art Prints
Description: The Danse Macabre (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: no matter one's station in life, the Dance Macabre unites all. 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 laborer. It was produced as memento mori, to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life.[1] 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.
Description: When I was a child I often dreamed about wandering deserted landscapes at night. One night I met a dancing Pumpkin-head Man. In silence, he danced beneath the orange light of a street lamp. I've never forgotten his spindly grace and eerie, balletic sweeps. Illustration Copyright 2020 by J.E.Larson
