St. Anna
Abbey chapel holding Bavaria's oldest surviving dance of death, painted in twenty scenes in 1602.
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This guide to the Chapel of Saint Anne in Füssen, inside the old abbey of Saint Mang, turns on the dance of death that the local painter Jakob Hiebeler was hired to paint here in sixteen oh two. It follows a strict procession of partners, from pope and emperor down to the innkeeper and the gambler, and the rule of the dance that nobody gets to sit out. Best heard facing the painted scenes, starting from the first.
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