{"id":18296,"date":"2019-07-17T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maxplayingcards.com\/en\/?p=18296"},"modified":"2019-07-17T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T12:41:28","slug":"dance-of-death-playing-cards-a-trilogy-of-monochromatic-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maxplayingcards.com\/en\/2019\/07\/17\/dance-of-death-playing-cards-a-trilogy-of-monochromatic-death\/","title":{"rendered":"DANCE OF DEATH Playing cards. A trilogy of monochromatic death"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hans Holbein the Younger<\/strong> was a German artist who masterfully commanded different expressions of pictorial art and printmaking<\/strong>. Known as one of the greatest portraitists of the 16th century, one of his most controversial<\/strong> works, of which he even had to conceal his authorship, was the series called “Dance of Death”<\/strong>, 51 xylographies<\/a> (woodcuts) showing medieval allegorical drawings with sarcastic allusions to the Church of the time<\/strong>. Inspired by these works, Sergey Kostyuchenko<\/strong> has launched the second campaign<\/strong> of an interesting trilogy<\/strong> of decks: DANCE OF DEATH<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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After successfully funding the first edition<\/strong> of the series, in this project, Sergey offers the second and third decks<\/strong>, in which the artist Eugenia Topchy<\/strong> has recreated Holbein’s illustrations giving them a special use in the deck. Each joker, court card and ace<\/strong> shows a different scene<\/strong>. In addition to the story<\/strong> that each card tells, it is possible to group<\/strong> them to create a great scenario<\/strong> where the characters interact as in a theatrical performance.<\/p>\n

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The designs<\/strong> are monochromatic<\/strong>, with a dismal<\/strong> and satirical<\/strong> appearance, in which mankind is subjected to the inexorable dance of death. The scenes<\/strong> are deep<\/strong> and full of meaning<\/strong> in a completely customized<\/strong> card set.<\/p>\n

The two new editions<\/strong> (2nd and 3rd) are offered in the campaign along with the few remaining decks of the first edition<\/strong>. All of them have a limited print-run of 1000 units<\/strong>. All the designs in the three editions are different<\/strong>, from the numbered cards to the aces, jokers and court cards.<\/p>\n

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