死亡之舞 (法语:Danse Macabre )是欧洲中世纪后期 出现的一种艺术体裁,是Memento mori 的一种,见于各类绘画作品中。其常见的主题是拟人化的死亡(如骷髅),寓意着生命的脆弱和世间众生注定死亡的命运[ 1] 。现存最早的死亡之舞艺术作品见于巴黎圣无辜者公墓 的壁画(1424-25)。
老彼得·勃鲁盖尔 《死亡的胜利 》,约1562年绘制
A collection of historical images of the Danse Macabre (页面存档备份 ,存于互联网档案馆 ) at Cornell's The Fantastic in Art and Fiction
Holbein's Totentanz (页面存档备份 ,存于互联网档案馆 )
Les simulachres & historiees faces de la mort: commonly called "The dance of death'' - 1869 photographic reproduction of original by Holbein Society with woodcuts, plus English translations and a biography of Holbein.
[1] (页面存档备份 ,存于互联网档案馆 ) Sophie Oosterwijk (2009), '"Fro Paris to Inglond"? The danse macabre in text and image in late-medieval England', Doctoral thesis Leiden University available online.
Images of Danse Macabre (2001) (页面存档备份 ,存于互联网档案馆 ) Conceptual performance by Antonia Svobodová and Mirek Vodrážka in Čajovna Pod Stromem Čajovým in Prague 22 May 2001'.
Pierre Desrey , Chorea ab eximio Macabro / versibus Alemanicis edita et a Petro Desrey ... nuper emendata –通过Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress
Dance of Death, Chorea, ab eximio Macabro versibus Alemanicis edita et a Petro Desrey ... nuper emendata. Paris, Gui Marchand, for Geoffroy de Marnef, 15 Oct. (Id. Oct.) 1490. From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division (页面存档备份 ,存于互联网档案馆 ) at the Library of Congress
An introduction to the Dance of Death , Art & Design Library, Central Library, Edinburgh