The Black Death affected Europe as the great leveler of social and economic distinctions. This theme reached its artistic high point with the Totentanz woodcuts (made in 1527) of the Swiss artist Hans Holbein the Younger.

In the above woodcut, entitled “The Bones of all Mankind”, a grisly ensemble of rotting skeletons plays a triumphant fanfare celebrating the Black Death, while the Charnel House in the background is stacked high with the bones of the anonymous dead, who are now devoid of social or economic distinction.

 
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