3-088-625 - LTL/Heritage Images

The Sergeant from "The Dance of Death", 1547, (1877). A soldier fighting against Death. At his feet lie the bodies of other warriors. In the background is shown a battlefield and a skeleton playing a drum. Facsimile of an engraving belonging to the series "The Dance of Death" in "Les Simulacres de la Mort et Histoires facées de la Mort", Latin edition, 1547. From "Vie Militaire et Religieuse au Moyen Age et à l'Epoque de la Renaissance", Paris, 1877.