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"I smiled then, and told him: Your Grace, sir, you have not understood this mystery: you will have to know that this image that you mention is a painting made with a certain trace, now invented with certain slats, which painted on one side make it…

Back to back with Death, by Anonymous (1500, c.)
Images 1-6 show two sculptures, the first one carved in wood, the second one in ivory. They both represent sensual female figures that are attached to skeletons as their doppelgangers. Notice the absence of any remains of the breasts in the…

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This image represents a marriage between the men and the woman that appear placing their hands on a skull. Although the corpse that appears underneath the skull is that of a man, the skull is deprived of any gender traits.

The skull represents…

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Illustration of 26 skulls and shinbones of kings and queens of Hapsburg. These skulls appear with crowns and the names of the individuals the skulls represent appear underneath each skull. It is visible that the skulls represent both males and…

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The image shows death represented as a skeleton with no visible gender attributes and holding several scythes. The skeleton has just killed two women and a man who are lying on the right of the image. A young woman (Denise Poncher) kneels on the left…

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This image represents a couple, a man and a woman. In the middle of the couple, there is an hourglass on top of a coat of arms. The death coat of arms has metal parts. The skeleton arms holding the hourglass look like a modern monster or automate,…

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This engraving represents a couple, the woman in the centre and the men on the right. On the left and holding the woman by her hand, is a skeleton representing death. In this image, death acts as a mirror image of the husband, who is mimicked with…

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This engraving represents a couple, a man and a woman. In the middle of these, a skeleton wearing a flower crown. It is unclear what type of crown it is, whether it is a victory or virgin crown. The skeleton is placing both its arms around the…

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This engraving represents a couple (man and woman) accompanied by death, represented by a female skeleton. The skeleton's gender can be seen by the clothing (head covering) and its breasts.
Death takes the equivalent place of the hunting hawk,…

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This image represents a couple (man and woman) sitting on a table and drinking. A skeleton without any sex or gender traits appears on the right. This is another example of death as the third member of the couple, or one death for both genders.
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