Skulls & Memento Mori

Guru Dragpo

The Crucifixion

Master of the Codex of Saint George, ca. 1330–35

The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor

Joos van Cleve, ca. 1520

The Crucifixion with the Virgin and Saint John

Hendrick ter Brugghen, ca. 1624–25

The Penitent Magdalen

Georges de La Tour, ca. 1640

The Meditation on the Passion

Vittore Carpaccio, ca. 1490

A skull with a beard

José Sanchez|José Guadalupe Posada, ca. 1880–1910

Skull

Skull in Profile

Battista Franco, ca. 1538

Netsuke of Boar with a Human Skull

Saint Bruno meditating on a skull

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)|Lodovico Inig|Francesco Rosaspina, 1780–1840

The Meditating Child

Louis Marin Bonnet|Charles Dominique Joseph Eisen, ca. 1760

Hunting Trophies

Unknown, ca. 1870

Departure for the Sabbath

David Teniers the Younger|baron Dominique Vivant Denon

Sectioned skull in profile to left with the left side of the cranium removed

Leonardo da Vinci|Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Domenico Piola, 1627–1703

St. Francis de Paul

Claude Mellan

Astrology

Anonymous, Italian, 17th century|Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola), 17th century

Jacob, from the series Sylvae Sacrae Monumenta...Anachoretarum

Maerten de Vos|Johann Sadeler I, 1593–94

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Sacrificial Instruments Based on Ancient Relief Sculpture

Nicolas Beatrizet|Enea Vico|Claudio Duchetti, ca. 1550–75

Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women

Daniel Hopfer, ca. 1515

The Penitent Magdalen

Corrado Giaquinto, ca. 1750

A saint seated at a table with his right hand resting on a skull, from a portfolio of reproductions of the Imperial Gallery of Paintings in Vienna; plate 33 of the series

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto)|Anton Joseph von Prenner, 1728

Portrait of Caravaggio, turned to the right and looking at his reflection in a mirror

Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)|Henri Simon Thomassin|Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), 1707–41

Death on a Canopied Throne (Design for a Title Page)

Godfried Maes, late 17th century

The Ecstacy of the Blessed Giacinta Marescotti

Giuseppe Passeri (Passari), 1654–1714

The Temptation of Saint Mary Magdalen

Johann Liss, ca. 1626

St. Mary Magdalen Reclining in a Grotto

Claude Mellan|Claude Goyrand

Diablerie: A Satire on the Medical Profession

Andries Both, 1612–41

The Goddess Bhairavi Devi with Shiva

Payag, ca. 1630–35

Mary Magdalen in the Wilderness

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

Sleeping Child with Four Skulls (reverse copy)

Lucas Kilian|Barthel Beham, 1595–1637

Penitent Mary Magdalen

Bartholomeus Spranger

The Virgin and Child with the Skull (copy)

Barthel Beham|Nikolaus Wilborn, 16th century

"In Time All the World Likely to be Cossack or All Republican" – Napoleon I (published in "Time")

Time Publishing Co.|Thomas Nast|Charles Anderson Dana, originally published 1889–90

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare|Charles William Sherborn|Thomas Brooker, 1876

[The Wilderness Battlefield]

Unknown, 1864

Copperheads Worshiping Their Idol

Anonymous, American, 19th century, ca. 1864

Catafalque for Marchese Bartolomeo Ruspoli, S. Maria in Vallicella, Rome, September 21, 1681

Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi|Johannes Collin|Giovanni Battista Contini, 1681

Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment

Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto), 1621

Design for a Wall Tomb with a Variant and Statues of the Resurrected Christ and a kneeling Donor

Anonymous, Flemish, 17th century

Awe-struck Saint Jerome

Anonymous, Spanish, School of Seville, 17th century, 17th century

Saint Jerome

Pieter de Jode I, n.d.

Saint Jerome

Johann Sadeler I|Bartholomeus Spranger, 1568–1600

Coat of Arms with a Skull

Albrecht Dürer, 1503

Vanitas Still Life

Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603

The Crucifixion

Housebook Master, 1481–82

Saint Jerome in the Wilderness

Antonio Rossellino, ca. 1470