Verkkoordered steps of the living simultaneously joins death and life in an exaggerated movement in which both a visual and an auditory displacement of the fact of death. Verkkocomparing the dance of life to other paintings of the frieze of life, one comes to notice that this painting also deals with, as munch put it, the battle between man. Verkkoobituaries offer an excellent research site because they are carefully presented texts about people that are motivated by the desire to fashion likable identities for the. Verkkothe annotations of the english dance of death identify and describe the other surviving drawings of a given subject and relate these to the i rowlandson's. Verkkothe sight of a skeletal corpse rarely inspires a rollicking jig. Yet for more than half a millennium, the dance of death in european visual art has.
