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rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Marcabru" title="Marcabru">Marcabru</a>.</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg/220px-Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg/330px-Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e2/Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg/440px-Bar-le-Duc_-_Eglise_Saint-Etienne_-_Le_Transi_-191.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1944" data-file-height="2592" /></a><figcaption>Upper section of the <a href="/wiki/Cadaver_Tomb_of_Ren%C3%A9_of_Chalon" title="Cadaver Tomb of René of Chalon"><i>Transi</i> of René de Chalon</a>. Sculpture by <a href="/wiki/Ligier_Richier" title="Ligier Richier">Ligier Richier</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1545–1547</span>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wien_-_Kaisergruft,_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.,_Totenkopf_(a).JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Wien_-_Kaisergruft%2C_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.%2C_Totenkopf_%28a%29.JPG/220px-Wien_-_Kaisergruft%2C_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.%2C_Totenkopf_%28a%29.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Wien_-_Kaisergruft%2C_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.%2C_Totenkopf_%28a%29.JPG/330px-Wien_-_Kaisergruft%2C_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.%2C_Totenkopf_%28a%29.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/Wien_-_Kaisergruft%2C_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.%2C_Totenkopf_%28a%29.JPG/440px-Wien_-_Kaisergruft%2C_Sarkophag_von_Kaiser_Karl_VI.%2C_Totenkopf_%28a%29.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3100" data-file-height="4650" /></a><figcaption>A death head wearing the Imperial Crown of the Holy Roman Empire, on the <a href="/wiki/Sarcophagus" title="Sarcophagus">sarcophagus</a> of Habsburg emperor <a href="/wiki/Charles_VI,_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor">Charles VI</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Crypt" title="Crypt">crypt</a> of the Capuchin church in <a href="/wiki/Vienna" title="Vienna">Vienna</a>, <a href="/wiki/Austria" title="Austria">Austria</a>.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pisa,_Camposanto_trionfo_della_morte_16_opening_the_graves.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img 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class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1330s–1350</span>, disputed),<sup id="cite_ref-Aavitsland_2012_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aavitsland_2012-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pisa" title="Pisa">Pisa</a>, <a href="/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg/220px-Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg/330px-Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2d/Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg/440px-Sedlec-Ossuary.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Chandelier" title="Chandelier">Chandelier</a> of human bones and <a href="/wiki/Human_skull" class="mw-redirect" title="Human skull">skulls</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kostnice_Sedlec" class="mw-redirect" title="Kostnice Sedlec">Sedlec Ossuary</a>, <a href="/wiki/Czech_Republic" title="Czech Republic">Czech Republic</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_(CCLXIIIIv).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_%28CCLXIIIIv%29.jpg/220px-Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_%28CCLXIIIIv%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="188" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_%28CCLXIIIIv%29.jpg/330px-Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_%28CCLXIIIIv%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_%28CCLXIIIIv%29.jpg/440px-Nuremberg_chronicles_-_Dance_of_Death_%28CCLXIIIIv%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2074" data-file-height="1769" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Danse_Macabre" title="Danse Macabre">Totentanz</a></i> ("Dance of the Dead"), illustration from the <i><a href="/wiki/Nuremberg_Chronicle" title="Nuremberg Chronicle">Nuremberg Chronicle</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Hartmann_Schedel" title="Hartmann Schedel">Hartmann Schedel</a> (1440–1514)</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Works_of_art" class="mw-redirect" title="Works of art">works of art</a>, the adjective <b>macabre</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox 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title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'k' in 'kind'">k</span><span title="/ɑː/: 'a' in 'father'">ɑː</span><span title="'b' in 'buy'">b</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ə/: 'a' in 'about'">ə</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1177148991"><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">French:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="fr-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/French" title="Help:IPA/French">[makabʁ]</a></span>) means "having the quality of having a grim or <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ghastly" class="extiw" title="wikt:ghastly">ghastly</a> atmosphere". The macabre works to emphasize the details and symbols of <a href="/wiki/Death" title="Death">death</a>. The term also refers to works particularly gruesome in nature. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macabre&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Early traces of macabre can be found in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_literature" title="Ancient Greek literature">Ancient Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin</a> writers such as the Roman writer <a href="/wiki/Petronius" title="Petronius">Petronius</a>, author of the <i><a href="/wiki/Satyricon" title="Satyricon">Satyricon</a></i> (late 1st century CE), and the Numidian writer <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a>, author of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a></i> (late 2nd century AD). Outstanding instances of macabre themes in <a href="/wiki/English_literature" title="English literature">English literature</a> include the works of <a href="/wiki/John_Webster" title="John Webster">John Webster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" title="Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mervyn_Peake" title="Mervyn Peake">Mervyn Peake</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_Dickens" title="Charles Dickens">Charles Dickens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roald_Dahl" title="Roald Dahl">Roald Dahl</a>, <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hardy" title="Thomas Hardy">Thomas Hardy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cyril_Tourneur" title="Cyril Tourneur">Cyril Tourneur</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/American_literature" title="American literature">American literature</a>, authors whose work feature this quality include <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>, <a href="/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft" title="H. P. Lovecraft">H. P. Lovecraft</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stephen_King" title="Stephen King">Stephen King</a>. The word has gained its significance from its use in French as <i><a href="/wiki/Danse_Macabre" title="Danse Macabre">la danse macabre</a></i> for the <a href="/wiki/Allegory" title="Allegory">allegorical</a> representation of the ever-present and universal power of death, known in German as <i>Totentanz</i> and later in English as the <i>Dance of the Dead</i>. The typical form which the allegory takes is that of a series of images in which <a href="/wiki/Personifications_of_death" title="Personifications of death">Death</a> appears, either as a dancing <a href="/wiki/Skeleton" title="Skeleton">skeleton</a> or as a shrunken shrouded corpse, to people representing every age and condition of life, and leads them all in a dance to the <a href="/wiki/Grave_(burial)" class="mw-redirect" title="Grave (burial)">grave</a>. Of the numerous examples painted or sculptured on the walls of cloisters or church yards through <a href="/wiki/Medieval_Europe" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval Europe">medieval Europe</a>, few remain except in <a href="/wiki/Woodcut" title="Woodcut">woodcuts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Engraving" title="Engraving">engravings</a>. </p> <ul><li>The series at <a href="/wiki/Basel" title="Basel">Basel</a> originally at the <a href="/wiki/Klingenthal" title="Klingenthal">Klingenthal</a>, a nunnery in Little Basel, dated from the beginning of the 14th century. In the middle of the 15th century this was moved to the churchyard of the Predigerkloster at Basel, and was restored, probably by Hans Kluber, in 1568. The collapse of the wall in 1805 reduced it to fragments, and only drawings of it remain.</li> <li>A <i>Dance of the Dead</i> in its simplest form still survives in the <a href="/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Church,_L%C3%BCbeck" title="St. Mary's Church, Lübeck">Marienkirche</a> at <a href="/wiki/L%C3%BCbeck" title="Lübeck">Lübeck</a> as 15th-century painting on the walls of a chapel. Here there are 24 figures in couples, between each is a dancing Death linking the groups by outstretched hands, the whole ring being led by a Death playing on a pipe.</li> <li>In <a href="/wiki/Tallinn" title="Tallinn">Tallinn</a> (Reval), Estonia there is a well-known <i>Danse Macabre</i> painting by <a href="/wiki/Bernt_Notke" title="Bernt Notke">Bernt Notke</a> displayed at <a href="/wiki/St._Nicholas%27_Church,_Tallinn" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Nicholas' Church, Tallinn">St. Nikolaus Church (Niguliste)</a>, dating the end of 15th century.</li> <li>At <a href="/wiki/Dresden" title="Dresden">Dresden</a> there is a sculptured life-size series in the old Neustädter Kirchhoff, moved here from the palace of Duke George in 1701 after a fire.</li> <li>At <a href="/wiki/Rouen" title="Rouen">Rouen</a> in the cloister of St Maclou there also remains a sculptured <i>danse macabre</i>.</li> <li>There was a celebrated fresco of the subject in the cloister of <a href="/wiki/Old_St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="Old St Paul's Cathedral">Old St Pauls</a> in <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>.</li> <li>There was another in the now destroyed Hungerford Chapel at <a href="/wiki/Salisbury" title="Salisbury">Salisbury</a>, of which only a single woodcut, "Death and the Gallant", remains.</li> <li>Of the many engraved reproductions of the Old St Pauls fresco, the most famous is the series drawn by <a href="/wiki/Hans_Holbein_the_Younger" title="Hans Holbein the Younger">Holbein</a>.</li></ul> <p>The theme continued to inspire artists and musicians long after the medieval period, <a href="/wiki/Franz_Schubert" title="Franz Schubert">Schubert's</a> string quartet <i><a href="/wiki/String_Quartet_No._14_(Schubert)" title="String Quartet No. 14 (Schubert)">Death and the Maiden</a></i> (1824) being one example, and <a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Camille Saint-Saëns</a>' tone poem <a href="/wiki/Danse_macabre_(Saint-Sa%C3%ABns)" title="Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)">Danse macabre, op. 40</a> (1847). <br />In the 20th century, <a href="/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman" title="Ingmar Bergman">Ingmar Bergman</a>'s 1957 film <i><a href="/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal" title="The Seventh Seal">The Seventh Seal</a></i> has a personified Death, and could thus count as macabre. </p><p>The origin of this allegory in painting and sculpture is disputed. It occurs as early as the 14th century, and has often been attributed to the overpowering consciousness of the presence of death due to the <a href="/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death">Black Death</a> and the miseries of the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War" title="Hundred Years' War">Hundred Years' War</a>. It has also been attributed to a form of the <a href="/wiki/Morality" title="Morality">Morality</a>, a dramatic dialogue between Death and his victims in every station of life, ending in a dance off the stage.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The origin of the peculiar form the allegory has taken has also been found in the dancing skeletons on late <a href="/wiki/Roman_funerary_practices" title="Roman funerary practices">Roman sarcophagi</a> and mural paintings at <a href="/wiki/Cumae" title="Cumae">Cumae</a> or <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, and a false connection has been traced with the fresco <i>Trionfo della Morte</i> ("Triumph of Death"), painted by the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance_painting" title="Italian Renaissance painting">Italian Renaissance</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Buonamico_Buffalmacco" title="Buonamico Buffalmacco">Buonamico Buffalmacco</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1330s–1350</span>, disputed),<sup id="cite_ref-Aavitsland_2012_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Aavitsland_2012-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and currently preserved in the <a href="/wiki/Camposanto_Monumentale" class="mw-redirect" title="Camposanto Monumentale">Campo Santo</a> of <a href="/wiki/Pisa" title="Pisa">Pisa</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bellosi_2000_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bellosi_2000-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macabre&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymology</a> of the word "macabre" is uncertain. According to <a href="/wiki/Gaston_Paris" title="Gaston Paris">Gaston Paris</a>, French scholar of <a href="/wiki/Romance_studies" title="Romance studies">Romance studies</a>, it first occurs in the form "macabree" in a poem, <i>Respit de la mort</i> (1376), written by the medieval Burgundian chronicler <a href="/wiki/Jean_Le_F%C3%A8vre_de_Saint-Remy" title="Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Remy">Jean Le Fèvre de Saint-Remy</a>:<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_1895_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_1895-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p><i>Je fis de Macabree la dance</i>,<br /> <i>Qui toute gent maine a sa trace</i><br /> <i>Et a la fosse les adresse</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Paris_1895_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Paris_1895-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p></blockquote> <p>The more usual explanation is based on the Latin name, <i>Machabaeorum chorea</i> ("Dance of the <a href="/wiki/Maccabees" title="Maccabees">Maccabees</a>"). The seven tortured brothers, with their <a href="/wiki/Woman_with_seven_sons" title="Woman with seven sons">mother</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eleazar_(2_Maccabees)" title="Eleazar (2 Maccabees)">Eleazar</a> (<a href="/wiki/2_Maccabees" title="2 Maccabees">2 Maccabees</a> 6 and 7) are prominent figures in the dramatic dialogues.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other connections have been suggested, as for example with <a href="/wiki/St._Macarius_the_Great" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Macarius the Great">St. Macarius the Great</a>, an Egyptian Coptic monk and hermit who is to be identified with the figure pointing to the decaying corpses in the fresco <i>Trionfo della Morte</i> ("Triumph of Death") painted by the <a href="/wiki/Italian_Renaissance_painting" title="Italian Renaissance painting">Italian Renaissance</a> artist <a href="/wiki/Buonamico_Buffalmacco" title="Buonamico Buffalmacco">Buonamico Buffalmacco</a>, according to the Italian art historian <a href="/wiki/Giorgio_Vasari" title="Giorgio Vasari">Giorgio Vasari</a>;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs a reliable source. (September 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> or with the <a href="/wiki/Arabic_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Arabic language">Arabic</a> word <i>maqābir</i> (مقابر, plural of <i><a href="/wiki/Maqbara" title="Maqbara">maqbara</a></i>) which means "cemeteries".<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs a reliable source. (September 2022)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> A related suggestion has been made that the word originates in Hebrew <i>mqbr</i> meaning "from the grave". </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macabre&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Body_horror" title="Body horror">Body horror</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Death_in_medieval_culture" title="Black Death in medieval culture">Black Death in medieval culture</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danse_Macabre" title="Danse Macabre">Danse Macabre</a></i>, medieval allegory on the universality of death</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Danse_macabre_(Saint-Sa%C3%ABns)" title="Danse macabre (Saint-Saëns)">Danse macabre</a></i>, tone poem written in 1874 by <a href="/wiki/Camille_Saint-Sa%C3%ABns" title="Camille Saint-Saëns">Camille Saint-Saëns</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Graphic_violence" title="Graphic violence">Graphic violence</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grimdark" title="Grimdark">Grimdark</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horror_fiction" title="Horror fiction">Horror fiction</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Memento_mori" title="Memento mori">Memento mori</a></i>, symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Macabre&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output 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Studi sull'arte tardogotica</i></a>. Di fronte e attraverso. Storia dell'arte (in Italian). <a href="/wiki/Milan" title="Milan">Milan</a>: Jaca Book. p. 9. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788816404335" title="Special:BookSources/9788816404335"><bdi>9788816404335</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Come+un+prato+fiorito.+Studi+sull%27arte+tardogotica&rft.place=Milan&rft.series=Di+fronte+e+attraverso.+Storia+dell%27arte&rft.pages=9&rft.pub=Jaca+Book&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=9788816404335&rft.aulast=Bellosi&rft.aufirst=Luciano&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D3jA9YnJaDGcC%26pg%3DPA9&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMacabre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Aavitsland_2012-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Aavitsland_2012_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Aavitsland_2012_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAavitsland2012" class="citation book cs1">Aavitsland, Kristin B. (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=9D8rDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA132">"<i>Mortis Memoria</i>: To Remember One's Death"</a>. <i>Imagining the Human Condition in Medieval Rome: The Cistercian fresco cycle at Abbazia delle Tre Fontane</i>. Routledge (1st ed.). <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a> and <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>: <a href="/wiki/Routledge" title="Routledge">Routledge</a>. pp. 131–132. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9781138273078" title="Special:BookSources/9781138273078"><bdi>9781138273078</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/2011050166">2011050166</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Mortis+Memoria%3A+To+Remember+One%27s+Death&rft.btitle=Imagining+the+Human+Condition+in+Medieval+Rome%3A+The+Cistercian+fresco+cycle+at+Abbazia+delle+Tre+Fontane&rft.place=London+and+New+York&rft.series=Routledge&rft.pages=131-132&rft.edition=1st&rft.pub=Routledge&rft.date=2012&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F2011050166&rft.isbn=9781138273078&rft.aulast=Aavitsland&rft.aufirst=Kristin+B.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D9D8rDwAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA132&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMacabre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/roald-dahl-day-adult-books-tales-unexpected-switch-bitch-kiss-kiss-short-stories-a7944351.html">"Roald Dahl Day: From Tales of the Unexpected to Switch Bitch, Dahl's undervalued stories for adults"</a>. <i>The Independent</i>. 14 October 2017.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=Roald+Dahl+Day%3A+From+Tales+of+the+Unexpected+to+Switch+Bitch%2C+Dahl%27s+undervalued+stories+for+adults&rft.date=2017-10-14&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Farts-entertainment%2Fbooks%2Fnews%2Froald-dahl-day-adult-books-tales-unexpected-switch-bitch-kiss-kiss-short-stories-a7944351.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMacabre" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">See <a href="/wiki/Du_Cange" class="mw-redirect" title="Du Cange">Du Cange</a>, Gloss., s.v. Machabaeorum chora.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Paris_1895-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Paris_1895_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Paris_1895_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFParis1895" class="citation journal cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Gaston_Paris" title="Gaston Paris">Paris, Gaston</a> (1895). Meyer, Paul; Paris, Gaston (eds.). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/roma_0035-8029_1895_num_24_93_5871">"<i>La Dance Macabré</i> de Jean Le Fèvre"</a>. <i>Romania</i> (in French). <b>24</b> (93). <a href="/wiki/Paris" title="Paris">Paris</a>: Librairie Droz, on behalf of the Société des amis de la Romania: 129–132. <a href="/wiki/Doi_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="Doi (identifier)">doi</a>:<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://doi.org/10.3406%2Froma.1895.5871">10.3406/roma.1895.5871</a>. <a href="/wiki/EISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="EISSN (identifier)">eISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/2391-1018">2391-1018</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0035-8029">0035-8029</a>. <a href="/wiki/JSTOR_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="JSTOR (identifier)">JSTOR</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/45042550">45042550</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left">Architecture</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capuchin_Crypt" title="Capuchin Crypt">Capuchin Crypt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris" title="Catacombs of Paris">Catacombs of Paris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sedlec_Ossuary" title="Sedlec Ossuary">Sedlec Ossuary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capuchin_catacombs_of_palermo" class="mw-redirect" title="Capuchin catacombs of palermo">Capuchin catacombs of palermo</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;text-align: left"><a href="/wiki/Category:Films_about_death" title="Category:Films about death">Film</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Seventh_Seal" title="The Seventh Seal">The Seventh 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