Poison Bottle Label, 15th Century

One of the earliest extant printed labels for a poison bottle, representing death as a worm eaten corpse. By an unknown artist, 1480-90. Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Mortii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Danca Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all

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1480s 1490s Danse Macabre Memento Mori Poison

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