The Dance of Death, Guesτbοοk

Name: Paolo Fornelli
Country: Italia
Date: 2026-04-27 17:00:47

Grazie davvero per questo sito molto ben fatto e ricco di informazioni. Sto redigendo un piccolo studio che collega le xilografie di Lutzelberger, passando per Glissenti, con alcune edizioni veneziane seicentesche.
Ancora grazie per l'impegno e buon lavoro.
Paolo

Name: Philipp Bartl
Country: Germany
Date: 2026-03-21 23:10:17

This website is nothing short of incredible! I am amazed by the dedication, time, and effort that must have went into it. I find it extremely interesting how many of such sub-genres of painting must have existed throughout time and how much knowledge and history they all may hold. To see that such a topic can contain so much hidden meaning concerning past societies and how much it yields in terms of things to talk about is almost a little intimidating. But most of all, I am fascinated by the amazing depictions of death throughout the ages and the surprisingly utopian messaging behind it all. In death all are equal as status, riches, and power have no meaning to the reaper. Such themes of equality seem very universal in nature and thus all the more special, in that they can be very easily applied to different times and societies and extended to include different inequalities, even if the painter or writer never intended for the work to reach past their own time. This seems especially true when considering the inevitability of death. As a side note: I find it funny how death seems to have a very defined personality in many of these depictions, having likes and dislikes and favoring certain people.
Thank you for your hard work :)

Name: Hisako
Country: Japan
Date: 2026-01-25 04:56:17

Thank you for your excellent and informative site.I
always check the articles.
I'm art historian especially Dance macabre.In 20 years ago, I found a manuscript in 15the century in Biblioteca monasterio del Escorial,with 2 illuminations of DM. ms.d.IV.13.
I'v already written in Japanese(! sorry)paper.2025,Bibioteca
publish the site,so,you can look all pages.Just information.
Best regards.

Hi Hisako

Thanks for your notice. I see that the "Dança General de la Muerte" is now available online: foil 109^r

I have never looked into this dance, but the interesting part is that is has a feature in common with the one in Lübeck: Death finishes each speech in Lübeck with a call to the next dancer. For instance Death replies to the physician in 7 lines, while the 8^th line is directed at the next dancer: »Usurer, follow from this moment«.

This structuree is found only in Lübeck/Tallinn and in the "Dança General".

Name: Atticus
Country: United States
Date: 2025-10-06 05:58:32

Thank you for this website! It is an incredible resource, and I appreciate your dedication to creating it. :)

Name: Abraham Lincon
Date: 2025-09-24 16:57:40

Thank you for making this website! It is truly incredible.

Name: Vasa Studio
Country: United States
Date: 2025-05-17 00:26:37

Such a fun and beautiful site. Thank you for hosting and keeping it alive, stumbling upon it I am rejuvenated in inspiration. Per aspera ad astra

Name: Clara
Country: Danmark
Date: 2025-04-01 12:24:53

Tak for at have lavet denne hjemmeside. Den er simpelthen fantastisk

Name: Frankenrose
Country: United States
Date: 2025-02-23 10:08:20

Thank you for keeping this site alive. It was very useful for art references!

Name: Joseph Koerner
Country: USA
Date: 2025-01-30 14:32:38

I learned a lot from your website, and I appreciated having so much important information so carefully and clearly presented. Thank you.

Name: Theo
Country: Poland
Date: 2025-01-28 16:55:35

Hi
I am a great fan of this site, i really keen on history and evolution of attitude to death.
In middle ages there was one popular dance in Europe named "Marazula". But, unfortunatly, there is no lyrics in the Internet, original, old-latine lyrics, I mean.
Maybe, you have more information about it. Thank you for your work.
Greetings from Poland

Name: Visitor
Country: Hungary
Date: 2025-01-24 10:40:19

Very informative site, thank you!

Name: Melissa
Country: United States
Date: 2025-01-14 21:57:00

I'm so grateful I was able to learn about Count Zimmern's Vergänglichkeitsbuch (http://www.dodedans.com/Efiguren-zimmern.htm) thanks to you! I love this website. Thank you so much for making it available in English as well!

Name: Durchlaucht
Country: Deutschland
Date: 2025-01-01 16:11:00

Absolutely stellar work! This is the most extensive collection on the Danse Macabre in all its forms.

Name: Alex from Spooky Traveler
Country: Netherlands
Date: 2024-10-02 15:55:43

Hi Martin, I travel to haunted places around the world and found your website while researching the Cemetery of the Innocents in Paris. Thank you for all of your information, it is helpful and informative. Cheers!

Name: Mads
Country: Ireland
Date: 2023-08-25 13:58:06

Hiya Martin. I just want to say your website has been the biggest help. I am currently finishing up my dissertaion for my masters in medieval studies and I'm writing it on the medieval culture of death and dying in relation to the plague. For my dissertation I analyze paintings and poems as case studies and your site has offered invaluable help for the Lübeck Dance of Death. I just wanted to sy that I owe my dissertation to you, thank you so much.