Totentanz (Niklaus Manuel)
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Totentantz is the common title of a fresco by Niklaus Manuel Deutsch made in the Berner Dominikanerkloster, which the artist began in 1516/17. The sequence of images (80 meters and 24 scenes) was destroyed in 1660.
What remains is a copy (1649) by Albrecht Kauw (1621-1681).
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(Bröcker Drehleier. fig. 60 [detail], after P. Zinsli. Der Berner Totentanz des Nikolaus Manuel. Bern 1953; Hammerstein Tanz. Abb. 183, as originally 1516/17-1519/20; exh Bern, Kunstmuseum, 1979
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