Dance of Death at Hrastovlje
John of Kastav · 1490
Why it's great
Skeletons lead a long line of kings, bishops, merchants and peasants toward the grave in this wall painting in a tiny church in Slovenia. John of Kastav painted it in 1490 in the years after the Black Death, when the Dance of Death was a favorite subject.
🏛️ Part of history
The Black Death (1347–1351) — Skeletons lead a long line of kings, bishops, merchants and peasants toward the grave in this wall painting in a tiny church in Slovenia.
Where to see it
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John of Kastav, in Croatian Ivan iz Kastva, was a painter from the town of Kastav in what is now Croatia, active in the late 1400s. In 1490 he painted the Dance of Death wall painting in the church of Hrastovlje in Slovenia, and very little else is known of his life.
