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EVA Visual Arts in Europe: An Open History

Artwork

Dance of Death

Notke, Bernt

late 15th century

Art Museum of Estonia (Niguliste Museum), Tallinn, Estonia

Frise peinte représentant une succession de personnages debout

Details

Creator(s)
Title(s)
  • Dance of Death
Date of creation
late 15th century
Materials and techniques
Oil on canvas
Place of conservation
  • Art Museum of Estonia (Niguliste Museum), Tallinn, Estonia
External links
Rights
  • Public Domain
Subject(s)
outdoor, emotion, figurative, colorful, depicted, geometric, landscape, religious, intellectual culture, dressed, dead

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The Dance of Death in the former St Nicholas’ Church (Nikolaikirche, Niguliste, now a museum) in Tallinn (German Reval), is one of the most striking and monumental interpretations of the memento mori theme in late medieval Europe. At the same time, it is the most internationally renowned medieval artwork in Estonia.

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