Macabre
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In art, the term macabre means "having a grim or ghastly atmosphere".
Totentanz ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the Nuremberg Chronicle, by Hartmann Schedel (1440–1514)
A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the crypt of the Capuchin
Upper section of the Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by Ligier Richier, c. 1545–1547
The Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon is a late Gothic period cadaver monument in the church of Saint-Étienne at Bar-le-Duc, in northeastern France. It consists of an altarpiece and a limestone statue of
Macabre
…wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the sarcophagus of Habsburg emperor Charles VI in the crypt of the Capuchin Upper section of the Transi of René de Chalon. Sculpture by Ligier Richier, c. 1545–1547 In art, the term macabre (US: or UK: ; French: ) means "having a grim or ghastly atmosphere". The macabre…
Full view with black marble columns and altarpiece
Jan van Scorel, René of Chalon, 1542
Jan van Scorel, Portrait of Anna of Lorraine, 1542