Skulls & Memento Mori — Page 2

William Shakespeare

Charles William Sherborn|Thomas Brooker|William Shakespeare, 1876

Ezekiel in the Valley of the Dry Bones

Gotthard Ringgli|Georg Pecham, late 16th–mid-17th century

Vanitas Still Life

Edwaert Collier, 1662

Reverse copy of Maria Scotorv Regin et Franciae Dotaria

Mary, Queen of Scots|George Vertue|Charles Mosley, mid-to late 18th century

Maria Scotorv Regin et Franciae Dotaria, from "Heads of the Kings of England, and of several Famous Persons"

Mary, Queen of Scots|George Vertue|Paul de Rapin de Thoyras, 1735

The Crucifixion

Fra Angelico (Guido di Pietro), ca. 1420–23

The Descent from the Cross

Filippino Lippi

Broadsheet relating to the bullfighting calavera who has arrived at full speed, screaming with much energy

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada, 1908

The horrific skeleton of the flood of Guanajuato

José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1905

Appliqué

Allegorical figure with a skull

Marcantonio Franceschini|Lorenzo Lorenzi|Violante Vanni, 1774

Skull and crossbones

Nymphenburg Porcelain Manufactory|Ignaz Günther, ca. 1755–60

Three human skulls, study for "Democritus in Meditation"

Salvator Rosa, 1662

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

Leonardo da Vinci|Wenceslaus Hollar, 1651

Skull in profile to right

Leonardo da Vinci|Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Skull in profile to right

Leonardo da Vinci|Wenceslaus Hollar, 1645

Watch

Isaac Penard|Firm of Moulinié, Bautte & Moynier, case ca. 1810–20, movement ca. 1650

Watch

Pierre Landré, ca. 1630–40

Pomander

Skull

Skull

Skull

Skull

Skull Pendant

Pendant Figure

The very brave skeletons Guatemaltecas of Mora and of Morales

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada, 1907

Skeletons hawking their wares and shouting about teetotalers, drunkards, old men and kids, tomcats and working girls

José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, ca. 1900–1910

A skeleton holding a knife leaping over a pile of skulls, people flee in the background, from a broadside entitled 'Las bravisimas calaveras Guatemaltecas'

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

A skull wearing a wide brimmed hat

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

A skeleton running with a crowbar in his hand, from a broadside entitled ' Calavera llorando el hueso'

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

A skeleton holding a bone and leaping over a pile of skulls while people flee, from a broadside entitled 'Las bravisimas calaveras Guatemaltecas'

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

Catacombs, Paris

Nadar, April 1862

[Stags Heads - Dibedale]

Horatio Ross, ca. 1856

Allegory of War

Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, probably before 1868

Netsuke of Skull

The Works of the late Professor Camper, on The Connexion [sic] between the Science of Anatomy and The Arts of Drawing, Painting, Statuary &c. &c.

Charles Dilly|T. Cogan|Pieter Camper, 1794

Skeleton Astride a Skull

Rantei, late 18th–early 19th century

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Churchyard: Industry and Idleness, plate 3

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Design for the Base of a Crucifix, Plate 2 from: 'Neü inventierte Crucifix= Stöcke'

Jacob Gottlieb Thelot|Martin Engelbrecht|Carl Pier, Printed ca. 1750–56

Three ox skulls, two horse skulls, and a grotesque head, study for "Democritus in Meditation"

Salvator Rosa, 1662

Bag

Venus de' Medici; view from the front

Peter van Lint, 1640

Venus de' Medici; view from the back

Peter van Lint, 1640

Knife

Astrology

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

Christ Sitting on the Cold Stone

Hieronymus (Jerome) Wierix, before ca. 1586

Cœnotaphiorum (title page)

Hans Vredeman de Vries|Johannes van Doetecum I|Lucas van Doetecum|Hieronymus Cock, 1563

Old Woman Approaching the Grave

Agostino Veneziano (Agostino dei Musi), 1528