{"id":10508,"date":"2011-11-21T01:50:30","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T01:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=10508"},"modified":"2011-11-21T04:57:20","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T04:57:20","slug":"alfred-rethels-totentanz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2011\/11\/21\/alfred-rethels-totentanz\/","title":{"rendered":"Alfred Rethel’s Totentanz"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Der Tod als Erw\u00fcrger (1851) by Alfred Rethel.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Danse Macabre seems to be a theme of the month given recent postings at BibliOdyssey<\/a>, Wurzletod<\/a> and 50 Watts<\/a>. In addition to posting examples, BibliOdyssey points the way to some original sources<\/a> at D\u00fcsseldorf, four of them books that feature engravings by German artist Alfred Rethel (1816\u20131859). (All four books appear to be the same works, unfortunately.) The pictures here are later Rethel pieces that are a lot more detailed<\/em>, and may well be the last things the artist had published. A note at the British Museum (where a larger copy<\/a> of the first picture can be seen) states that Rethel was “Insane since 1853”.<\/p>\n

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Der Tod als Freund (1851) by Alfred Rethel.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The etching and engraving archive<\/a><\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 The art of Jacopo Ligozzi, 1547\u20131627<\/a>
\n\u2022 Massachusetts memento mori<\/a>
\n\u2022 Skull cameras<\/a>
\n\u2022 Walmor Corr\u00eaa\u2019s Memento Mori<\/a>
\n\u2022 The skull beneath the skin<\/a>
\n\u2022 Vanitas paintings<\/a>
\n\u2022 Very Hungry God<\/a>
\n\u2022 History of the skull as symbol<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Der Tod als Erw\u00fcrger (1851) by Alfred Rethel. The Danse Macabre seems to be a theme of the month given recent postings at BibliOdyssey, Wurzletod and 50 Watts. In addition to posting examples, BibliOdyssey points the way to some original sources at D\u00fcsseldorf, four of them books that feature engravings by German artist Alfred Rethel … Continue reading “Alfred Rethel’s Totentanz”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,42],"tags":[2329,3111,1042,2968],"class_list":["post-10508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-books","tag-50-watts","tag-alfred-rethel","tag-bibliodyssey","tag-jacopo-ligozzi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-2Ju","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}