Danse Macabre V is a photograph by James Aiken which was uploaded on May 13th, 2015.
Danse Macabre V
A tulip beautifully and gracefully nears its end of life in a delicate and poignant Danse Macabre.... more
by James Aiken
Title
Danse Macabre V
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
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Comments (16)
Lee Craig
You can almost feel the reaching and last moment straining in this intense image...well done!
HH Photography of Florida
The beauty lives on, even as it withers and dies. Beautiful capture and series, Jamie.