Theatrum mortis humanae tripartitum ... : figuris aeneis illustratum = Das ist, Schau-Bühne dess menschlichen Todts in drey Theil ... : mit Schönen Kupffer-Stichen geziehrt vnd an Tag gegeben
Theatrum mortis humanae is a 1682 German-language book of death imagery, compiled by Johann Weichard Valvasor and printed in Laibach with engravings by Johann Koch, after Hans Holbein's Dance of Death motifs. Its plates are small engraved scenes in ornate floral and animal borders, and they show skeletons confronting the living, a rider galloping past a castle, and figures struggling among trees. A designer might borrow the dense botanical and creature borders around a central vignette, and the high-contrast, hatched engraving style used to build dramatic movement and shadow.
