Note 488 — Chapter X · THE “DANCE OF DEATH” AND OLD TESTAMENT WOODCUTS
Reading edition
A considerable number of the subjects appear to have been suggested to Holbein by the small woodcuts in the Malermi Bible, published in Venice in 1490, which, in turn, had been more or less adapted from the Cologne Bible of 1480; but the material so used by Holbein was completely transformed by the magic of his pencil. See A. M. Hind, Holbein, in “Great Engravers” series, p. 10.