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Topic 7 – Dancing with death: The art of dying well

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Key terms:

· Ars moriendi (The Art of Dying Well), c. 1415

· La Danse Macabre (The Dance of Death), c. 1424

· Dogma of Purgatory, 1254; masses and prayers for the dead, alms, indulgences

· Last four things: Death, Last Judgement, Hell, Heaven

· Epitaph

· Canon George van der Paele, Canon of St Donatian’s collegiate

· Nicolas Rolin, chancellor for Philip the Good

· Sacred conversation

· St Anthony’s fire (ergotism)

· Seven deadly sins: gluttony, avarice, envy, anger, pride, lust, sloth

· Vanitas

· Anamorphosis

· Transi tomb

Image group URL: Death http://www.artstor.org/artstor/ViewImages?q=gDJHdjcm&userId=gjZDdw%3D%3D&igName=9RBEYSk%3D

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Jan van Eyck

Madonna of Canon George van der Paele

1434-6

Originally located at St Donatian’s collegiate church, Bruges

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Jan van Eyck

Madonna of Chancellor Nicolas Rolin

c.1437

Originally located at the Rolin family chapel in Notre Dame-du-Chastel, Autun

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Hieronymus Bosch

Seven Deadly Sins

c. 1480

<4>

Matthias Grünewald

Isenheim altarpiece

Finished 1515

Originally located at the chapel of the Antonite Hospital, near Colmar

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Hans Holbein

The Ambassadors

1533

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Conrad Meit

Tomb of Margaret of Austria

c. 1530-6

Church of Brou, Bourg-en-Bresse