Engraving by Jacques Gamelin entitled: "Dance of death taken from Nouveau recueil d'osteologie et de myologie, 1779." Skeleton seated on a stone slab in right profile; using right hand to support himself, holding pen and book in left hand, legs crossed at the ankles; at left on the slab are anatomical drawings and an hourglass. Dance of Death, also called Danse Macabre (French), Danza Macabra (Italian), Dansul Mortii (Romanian), Danza de la Muerte (Spanish), Dansa de la Mort (Catalan), Danca Macabra (Portuguese language), Totentanz (German), Dodendans (Dutch), Surmatants (Estonian), is an artistic genre of late medieval allegory on the universality of death: no matter one's station in life, the Dance of Death unites all.