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- Dictionarydance of death
noun
- 1. a medieval allegorical representation in which a personified Death leads all types of people to the grave, intended to emphasize the equality of all before death.
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- Danse Macabre
Artistic motif on the universality of death
The Danse Macabre, also called the Dance of Death, is an artistic genre of allegory from the Late Middle Ages on the universality of death. The Danse Macabre consists of the dead, or a personification of death, summoning representatives from all walks of life to dance along to the grave, typically with a pope, emperor, king, child, and labourer. The effect is both frivolous and terrifying, beseech... Wikipedia
