Niklaus Manuel Deutsch, of Bern, was a Swiss artist, writer, mercenary and Reformed politician.
Self-portrait of Niklaus Manuel, c. 1515
Swiss mercenary, with a scene of the assault on Castellazzo (1513/4)
Swiss mercenary (1513/4)
Beheading of John the Baptist (1513/4)
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 (today in the Art Museum of Estonia)