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Gennady Kalinovsky | Fagotto Meets Margarita in a Dark Ballroom | From The Master and Margarita Illustrations | x

Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, Vita Nova, 2001.

A collection of Illustrations from a bizarre French manuscript titled "Danse Macabre" and containing the text from La danse macabre - a mural painted in the Cimetière des Innocents in Paris in 1424. The book is lavishly decorated, with the main, large illuminations portraying a total of thirty men and thirty-six women — all dancing with skeletons.

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This is a 17th-century engraving titled Allegory of Death or Death holds a scroll while standing at an open grave, likely created around 1600.

The image features a skeleton holding a banderolle with the Latin text "Vigilate quia nescitis diem nec horam". "Watch, for you do not know the day nor the hour."