Skeletons in Art — Page 5

331 artworks

View of Pompeii (Altra veduta della Stanza dove si preparava il Bogno Caldo . . . )

Francesco Piranesi, n.d.

Laurence Sterne, alias Tristram Shandy: "And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door"

Thomas Patch, 1769

Science Books: Gemmae Antiquae Litteratae; Espozione Anatomica della Struttura del Corpo Umano del Winslow, tradotto dal Franzese (...) tome 1 and 2

Catafalco Eretto Nella Basilica Vaticana ...per Alessandro VIII

Alessandro Specchi|Domenico De Rossi|Mattia de Rossi, 1691

Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico’ (unpublished)

Crisóstomo Alejandrino José Martínez y Sorli, Plate ca. 1680–94; printed 1740

Rich Man, from the Dance of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger|Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Doctor, from the Dance of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger|Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

The Merchant, from the Dance of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger|Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

The Miser, from the Dance of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger|Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Waggoner, from the Dance of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger|Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

The Monk, from the Dance of Death

Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger, [1651] late 18th century printing

The Abbess, from the Dance of Death

Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger, [1651] late 18th century printing

The Pedlar, from the Dance of Death

Hans Holbein the Younger|Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing

Death on horseback holding a trumpet, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1648

Mahakala, Protector of the Tent

Interior of the church of San Lorenzo in Florence, five pillars, each with a large figure of death on a pedestal, ten hooded figures with staffs in foreground, two altars in the background, cartouches containing female figures above, from 'Ceremonies for the Funeral of Emperor Ferdinand II' (Funérailles de l'empereur Ferdinand II)

Stefano della Bella, 1637

Death

Design for Stained Glass

Hans Ganting the Younger, 1628

Death carrying a child, from 'The five deaths' (Les cinq Morts)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1648

Death Carrying a Child

Stefano della Bella, 1610–64

Plate from a book showing a procession of men and women with a skeleton at the beginning, middle and end of the line

Anonymous, German, 17th century, 17th century

Design for a Processional Float

Anonymous, Italian, Roman-Bolognese, 17th century, 17th century

Wedding medallion

An Allegory of Wealth

Adam Gutmann, 1598

Figure Studies: Standing and Kneeling Clerics and Religious, Adam and Eve, and a Reclining Skeleton

Francesco Vanni, ca. 1602

Design for a Knife Handle with a Memento Mori

Johann Theodor de Bry, 1580–1600

The Vision of Ezekiel

Giorgio Ghisi|Giovanni Battista Bertano|Cristoforo Bianchi, 1554 (republished 1595)

De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres

Death and the Bishop, from The Power of Death (Allegory of Original Sin and Death)

Heinrich Aldegrever|Hans Holbein the Younger, 1541

Two Flayed Men and Their Skeletons

Domenico del Barbiere, ca. 1540–45