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Unknown Artist and Hans Holbein The Younger

Plaque: Death and the Knight. After Holbein’s ‘Dance of Death’ series.

1567-1632

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Plaque: Death and the Knight. After Holbein’s ‘Dance of Death’ series.

1567-1632

Physical Qualities Gilt bronze, 2 x 1 1/2 in. (5.1 x 3.8 cm.)
Credit Line Bequest of Saidie A. May
Object Number 1951.451
Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1951; Baltimore Museum of Art on extended loan from Saidie A. May, 1933-1951; Saidie A. May, New York, NY, until 1933.
Jacobs Reinstallation 2026
Edmund Wilhelm Braun, Die deutschen Renaissance plaketten der Sammlung Alfred Walcher, Ritter von Molthein in Wien (Wien: Kunstverlag Anton Schroll, 1918), p. 47, no. 93, ill.
Bange, German, and E. F. Bange. Die Bildwerke in Bronze und anderen Metallen (Die Bildwerke des deutschen Museums, Band II) (Berlin and Leipzig, 1923), p. 139, nos. 7087, 7096.

Binski, Paul. Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation (London: British Museum Press, 1996).

Gertsman, Elina. The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (Turnhout: Brepols, 2010).

Holbein, Hans, with a commentary by Ulinka Rublack. The Dance of Death (London: Penguin Classics, 2016).

Landau, David, and Parshall, Peter. The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994).

Middledorf, Ulrich, and Oswald Goetz. Medals and Plaquettes from the Sigmund Morgenroth Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1944), nos. 409-411.

Nuechterlein, Jeanne. Hans Holbein: The Artist in a Changing World (London: Reaktion Books, 2020).

Roskill, Mark; Hand, John Oliver, eds. Hans Holbein: Paintings, Prints, and Reception (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2001).

Taylor, Jane H. M. “Translation as Reception: La Danse macabre,” Shifts and Transpositions in Medieval Narrative, 181-92.

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Artist

Unknown Artist

2000-01-01 00:00:00–2000-01-01 00:00:00

Artist

Hans Holbein The Younger

1496–1542

German, 1497-1543
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