Theatrum mortis humanae Tripartitum. I. Pars. Salutem Mortis ... das ist Schau-Bühne deß Menschlichen Todts ... an Tag geben durch Joannem Weichardum Valvasor.

The author and publisher Johann Weichard Valvasor (1641 – 1693) was the lord of a number of estates in the former Duchy of Krain, today part of Slovenia. As a polymath and historian, he published a number of topographies of countries and regions in the south of the Hapsburg Empire, and was the owner of one of the most important collections of graphic works of his age.
Amongst other things, he also published a Dance of Death in Latin and German in 1682, preceded by a dialogue between death and a person. The sequence and subjects of the images correspond with Hans Holbein's 1526 Dance of Death, which was frequently imitated. The sequence of images begins with the Creation of Man and Original Sin; the third image, the Banishment from Paradise, already shows Death in the form of a skeleton. All the estates and professions, rich and poor, from the Pope to the beggar, from the cook to the old woman, are required to dance with Death. The work finishes with the Last Judgement and Death’s coat of arms.
The second section with 35 engravings contains a pictorial list of possible ways of death in everyday life, through torture or accident. The 31 engravings in the third part show sinners suffering different torments in hell in a sea of fire according to Christian moral concepts.