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the dance of death.
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Now, let me stress that once again
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this is not a school of painting.
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This is part of the iconography.
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It's the theme in the painting.
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It appears as a common motif in European Art,
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from the mid-fourteenth century to the sixteenth;
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in paintings, in prints
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and very importantly on tombstones.
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It began with the Black Death.
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And with the eighteenth century
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and the vanishing of the plague,