Exquisite Corpse: How did corpses become beautiful? An iconographic wild ride from the danse macabre to Corpse Bride.

Title: Exquisite Corpse: How did corpses become beautiful? An iconographic wild ride from the danse macabre to Corpse Bride.
Description: This post was written by Lena Szalewska and Arianna Dalla Costa, Graduate Library Trainees at The Warburg Institute Library, for History Day 2024.
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Contributor: Warburg Institute
Type: Blog
Date: 2024
Subject: Art and Architectural History; History of Medicine; Women's History
Geographical Area: Europe

Multiple books overlapping and spread on a table. There are multiple images in the books of of skeletons and visible book titles include Danse Macabre and Dance of Death.