Skeletons in Art — Page 7
331 artworks
Satan, Sin, and Death: "Death and Sin met by Satan on his Return from Earth"
James Barry|John Milton, 1792–95
Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book the 2nd)
Thomas Rowlandson|William Hogarth|Robert Wilkinson|Richard Livesay|John Milton, after 1790
The Chamber of Taste
Samuel Collings|Thomas Rowlandson|Elizabeth Jackson, ca. 1785
A Rider Falls into Water
Henry William Bunbury, 1780–1820
Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico’ (unpublished)
Crisóstomo Alejandrino José Martínez y Sorli, Plate ca. 1680–94; printed 1740
Bishop, from the Dance of Death
Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger, [1651] late 18th century printing
The Knight, from the Dance of Death
Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger, [1651] late 18th century printing
The Count from the Dance of Death
Wenceslaus Hollar, [1651] late 18th century printing
Allegory on the Death of the Earl of Arundel
Cornelis Schut|Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel|Wenceslaus Hollar, ca. 1646
Plate 1: Figures gathered before a curtained wall, decorated with three armorials with the coat of arms and symbols celebrating Archduke Albert, four skeletons on pedestals at center, gothic facade in background; from 'Pompa Funebris ... Alberti Pii'
Jacques Francquart|Cornelis Galle I, 1623
Old Couple and Death with Bagpipes
Werner van den Valckert, 1612
Allegorical Scene (Temptations of a Wealthy Man?)
Master of the Stockholm Wolf Huber Copies, first half 17th century
An Academy of Painters
Pierfrancesco Alberti, 1600–38
The Expulsion and Adam and Eve after the Fall (one of a set of three)
Design for Knife Handles with the Temptation of Adam and Eve and a Memento Mori Scene
Johann Theodor de Bry, 1580–1600
Adam and Eve
Sebald Beham|Barthel Beham, 1543
The Triumph of Eternity on Death, from The Triumph of Petrarch
Georg Pencz
Expulsion from Paradise, from The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein the Younger|Hans Lützelburger, ca. 1526, published 1538
The Nun, from The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein the Younger|Hans Lützelburger, ca. 1526, published 1538
Adam Ploughing, from The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein the Younger|Hans Lützelburger, ca. 1526, published 1538
Lord and lady walking with figure of death hiding behind a tree, holding an hourglass, The Promenade after Dürer
Marcantonio Raimondi|Albrecht Dürer, ca. 1500–34
The Antiquary's Last Will and Testament (from The English Dance of Death, vol. I, plate 2)
Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London, 1816
The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte|Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London, April 16, 1815
The Sot (The English Dance of Death, plate 12)
Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London, July 1814
The Honey Moon (The English Dance of Death, plate 13)
Thomas Rowlandson|Rudolph Ackermann, London, August 1, 1814
A Speedy & Effectual Preparation for the Next World
Matthew Darly, May 1, 1777
The Virgin and Child Intervening for Victims of the Plague (recto); Seated Female Figure (verso)
Geronimo Cenatiempo (Girolamo Cenatempo), 1705–41
Louis XIV Visiting the Royal Academy of Sciences
Sébastien Leclerc I, 1671
Royal Portugese Funeral Monument (possibly part of a funeral book)
Michel Bouteux, late 17th–early 18th century
Paradise Lost, from the Dance of Death
Wenceslaus Hollar|Hans Holbein the Younger, [1651] late 18th century printing
Death and Card Players
Jan Lievens, 1620–74
The Death of the Rich Man
Abraham Bosse|Nicolas de Poilly, mid-17th century
Triumph of Death with three fates in an architectural frame above a wheel of fortune flanked by skeletons; a skull and an hour glass at top and with wheel intended to spin at center
Andrea Andreani|Giovanni Fortuna, 1588
The King, from The Dance of Death
Hans Holbein the Younger|Hans Lützelburger, ca. 1526, published 1538
The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death as a winged skeleton standing above it holding an open book
Marco Dente|Baccio Bandinelli|Antonio Salamanca, 1515–27
The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte|Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson, April 16, 1815
A Friendly Visit
Thomas Tegg|Napoléon Bonaparte|Joseph Bonaparte|Thomas Rowlandson, April 16, 1814
Nap and His Friends in their Glory
Napoléon Bonaparte|Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson, October 1, 1813
Rosary bead
Nap and His Friends in their Glory
Joseph Bonaparte|Rudolph Ackermann, London|Thomas Rowlandson|Napoléon Bonaparte, October 1, 1808
Hudibras beats Sidrophel and his man Whacum (Twelve Large Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, Plate 8)
William Hogarth|Samuel Butler, 1725–68
Lo Stregozzo: a female witch riding on an animal skeleton, preceded by two men and a boy on a goat blowing on a horn, another naked man behind carrying two bones
Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi), ca. 1515–25
The Prayer Book of Bonne of Luxembourg, Duchess of Normandy
Jean Le Noir, before 1349