Danse Macabre I

A tulip beautifully and gracefully nears its end of life in a delicate and poignant Danse Macabre.... more

by James Aiken

Title

Danse Macabre I

Artist

James Aiken

Medium

Photograph - Photography

Description

A tulip beautifully and gracefully nears its end of life in a delicate and poignant Danse Macabre.

Danse Macabre, also called Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of late-medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead or personified Death summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. They were produced to remind people of the fragility of their lives and how vain were the glories of earthly life. Its origins are postulated from illustrated sermon texts; the earliest recorded visual scheme was a now lost mural in the Saints Innocents Cemetery in Paris dating from 1424�25. (Information obtained from Wikipedia)

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May 13th, 2015