Bernt Notke produced two Danse Macabre paintings: one for St Mary’s Church in Lübeck, the other decades later for Tallinn. While the two paintings were very similar to each other, they still had some significant differences. The Lübeck Danse Macabre has not survived. By 1701, it was in such poor condition that the painter Anton Wortmann made a copy of it. This copy was destroyed in a 1942 fire at St Mary’s Church. The copy originally depicted 49 figures, two of which were cut out over time. The painting began with Death playing the flute and ended with a baby. Wortmann did not make an exact copy of the old painting, but added details characteristic of his era. The accompanying verses were also replaced by new ones.