The dance of death: the advocate. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger.

  • Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543.
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1 print : woodcut ; image 6.5 x 4.9 cm

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Callidus vidit malum, & abscõdit se: innocens pertransiit, & afflictus est damno. Prover. XXII. Vidit homo cautus delicta, malumq́; probauit: pauperis & iusti causa repulsa fuit. Iustitiae titulo uexatur egenus & insons, legibus & maius munera pondus habent. Bears signature : B4

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A.S. Warthin, The physician of the dance of death; a historical study of the evolution of the dance of death mythus in art, New York 1931, pp. 43 - 56
W.L. Gundersheimer, The dance of death by Hans Holbein the younger, New York, 1971, ix-xiii

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