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Dancing into darkness – Holbein’s Dance of Death

posted in News on May 16, 2017 by derek 0 Comment

DANCING INTO DARKNESS The Dance of Death, Hans Holbein, London: Penguin Classics, 2016, 184pps., pb., £9.99 If age is synonymous with canonicity – an assumption increasingly questioned – Hans Holbein’s 1523-5 Dance of Death qualifies as ‘classic’ on that score alone. But his striking work is also defining in deeper ways, epitomising the Reformation, when… Continue reading →