Dance of Death Window, Bern, Switzerland
Credit
Holly Hayes
Status
  All Rights Reserved
Trip
Summer in an Oxfordshire Village
Date Created
December 21, 2006
Date Added
July 15, 2011
Last Updated
March 7, 2024
File Size
6 MB
Resolution
2792 x 3600 pixels
Coordinates
46.9473250° N, 7.4513970° E

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Dance of Death Window, Bern, Switzerland

Detail of the Dance of Death Window, dating from c.1450, in Bern Munster. This theme (Totentanz in German) is an allegory of the universality and inevitablity of death and was especially popular after the Black Plague swept Europe in the 14th century. Construction on Bern's cathedral began in 1421. It became a Protestant church after the city adopted the Reformation in 1528.

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