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.
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)
Bernt Notke: Surmatants (Totentanz) from St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn, end of 15th century
The Skeleton Dance is a 1929 American animated comedy horror short film directed and produced by Walt Disney. It is the first installment in the Silly Symphony series. In the film, reanimated human sk
Danse Macabre
…Memento mori The Skeleton Dance The Triumph of Death…
The Skeleton Dance theatrical release poster
Iwerks was inspired by the frontispiece to Thomas Rowlandson's 1816 edition of satirical etchings, The English Dance of Death.
The soundtrack was released on vinyl in 2016.