... because Kate of ten says to me, “Whoa, you have a skeletonunder there .” Whoa indeed.Memento mori woodcut by Alexander Mair, 1605Hundred Years War, and, most of all, the Black Death.The latter ... kings,popes, peasants, and children— are invited by jovialskeletons to follow them in a dance to the grave. Dance of Death art (and it also took theform of plays and poems),grew out of the grim ... Macabre, orDance of Death A sub-genre of memento moriart is Danse Macabre, or Dance of Death. This genre of art hasits origins in late medieval timesbut became popular duringthe Renaissance....