Practice question · Put in order
Arrange these developments in the imagery of death in order.
- The Dutch vanitas still life flourishes
- The ars moriendi is printed and widely circulated
- Holbein publishes his Dance of Death woodcuts
- The Last Judgement becomes standard on church west walls
- The danse macabre appears after the plague
Hints
- The Judgement is medieval and precedes the plague imagery.
- The vanitas is a seventeenth-century genre.
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- The Last Judgement becomes standard on church west walls
- The danse macabre appears after the plague
- The ars moriendi is printed and widely circulated
- Holbein publishes his Dance of Death woodcuts
- The Dutch vanitas still life flourishes
Why
The sequence moves from the collective to the individual. The Last Judgement addresses everyone at once at the end of time; the vanitas addresses a single person in a single room, holding a single skull, and that narrowing tracks a wider change in devotional practice.
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