Bernt Notke
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Bernt Notke was a late Gothic artist from the Baltic region. He has been described as one of the foremost artists of his time in northern Europe.
The Lübeck Danse Macabre (detail, photographic reproduction, original destroyed)
Lübecker Totentanz by Bernt Notke (around 1463, destroyed in a bombing raid in 1942)
The Tallinn Danse Macabre showing left to right human figures representing the Pope, the Emperor, a Queen, a Cardinal, and a King
The Lübeck triumphal cross
Danse Macabre
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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.
Bernt Notke
…is of unusual character: it was a 2 metres (6.6 ft) high and at least 26 metres (85 ft) long tapestry depicting the popular late medieval motif of the Danse Macabre (the dance of Death), made for a chapel of St. Mary's Church in Lübeck. It was lost, most likely destroyed, during the allied bombing of Lübeck in 1942…
![Example of a woodcut from the book [The Abbott]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/3._Holbein_death_Abbot.300dpi.jpg/500px-3._Holbein_death_Abbot.300dpi.jpg)
Example of a woodcut from the book [The Abbott]
The Dance of Death (1493) by Michael Wolgemut, from the Nuremberg Chronicle of Hartmann Schedel
Charnel house at Holy Innocents' Cemetery, Paris, with mural of a Danse Macabre (1424–25)