DANSE MACABRE I.3 - The Exhibition at Museum Schnütgen in Cologne I

Zum Sterben Schön! Alter, Totentanz und Sterbekunst von 1500 bis Heute, that means something like: To die in the nice way! Age, Dance of the Death and Art to Die from 1500 till today, was exhibition on view at the Museum Schnütgen. The exhibition comprises several objects from several different origins and art periods from the XVI century till the present.

The picture above shows us part of a huge set of small figures representing the Danse Macabre from the end of the 19th century. They were obviously produced in masses and showed in which shape death would come to the different persons like pagans, musicians, kings, lawyers, even the pope.