Skulls & Memento Mori — Page 3

237 artworks

Child with Three Skulls (reverse copy)

Barthel Beham, early 16th century

Design for a Man's Tomb

Anonymous, French, 16th century|Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau, 16th century

Dalmatic

Bucranium

Broadsheet relating to commerical/business skeletons (Calavera Comercial) and charlatanism, many skeletons gather around a candle vendor

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|J. Cortés, 1908

Variety Act 3: 132nd Day of Fasting, A. Lucci the Famous Hunger Artist (Varietenummer 3: 132 Hungertag, A. Lucci der Berühmte Hungerkünstler)

Moriz Jung|Wiener Werkstätte, 1907

The grand electric skeleton, a large skeleton is hypnotizing a group of skulls and a sitting skeleton, an electric street car in the background

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada, 1907

Game of the Goose

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

[Stag Trophy Head, Killed by Ned Ross]

Horatio Ross, ca. 1858

L'Ermite à la Tête de Mort (The Hermit with Skull)

Rodolphe Bresdin, 19th century

Scene from "My Aunt Margaret's Mirror" (Keepsake Story by Sir Walter Scott)

John William Wright, ca. 1828

春好斎北洲画初代市川鰕十郎「紅紫大坂潤」|Kabuki Actor Ichikawa Ebijūrō I as Tōken (China Dog) Jūbei, in the play Benimurasaki ai de someage (Red and Purple, Rich Dyes of Osaka)

Shunkōsai Hokushū 春好斎北洲, 1822

The Idle 'Prentice at Play in the Church Yard (Industry and Idleness, plate 3)

William Hogarth, September 30, 1747

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III

William Hogarth|Bernard Baron, April 1745

Camera sepolcrale inventata e disegnata conforme al costume, e all'antica magnificenza degl'Imperatori Romani... (Imaginary sepulcral chamber designed according to the fashion and ancient magnficence of the Roman Emperors...), from "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive"

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, ca. 1750

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate III

William Hogarth|Bernard Baron, April 1, 1745

Tomb Design

Ignaz Günther, 1740–75

Melancholia

Henri Simon Thomassin|Domenico Fetti, ca. 1729–40

Designs for Two Reliquary Caskets; at top Bishop; at bottom: Skulls and Bones

Anonymous, Italian, Piedmontese, 18th century, 1700–1780

Suggestions for Urns

L. V. Grave, 18th century

The Wrathful Protector Mahakala, Tantric Protective Form of Avalokiteshvara

Christ Child with Pelicans

Crucifixion

Robert van Audenaerde|François Collignon|Carlo Maratti, 1670–90

St. Claude

Claude Mellan, 1664

Faust

Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn), ca. 1652

A cartouche with a loom, a skull at top, bones to either side, from 'Eight Emblems for the Funeral of Francesco de Medici' (Huit emblèmes pour les funérailles du prince François de Médicis)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1640–60

A cartouche with a violin coming out of its case, a skull with a helmet with feathers at top, from 'Eight Emblems for the Funeral of Francesco de Medici' (Huit emblèmes pour les funérailles du prince François de Médicis)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1640–60

A cartouche with a tree blowing in the wind, a skull with drapery at top, bones to either side, from 'Eight Emblems for the Funeral of Francesco de Medici' (Huit emblèmes pour les funérailles du prince François de Médicis)

Stefano della Bella, ca. 1640–60