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In roughly which decade did the danse macabre mural at the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris appear?
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- The first half of the fifteenth century.
- The 1420s.
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1425 (answers within ±8 count)
Why
The 1420s. The dating matters because it places the subject in the long aftermath of the plague, when the levelling argument, death takes each rank in turn, had recent and universal evidence behind it.
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