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This engraving represents a young couple (man and woman) that are faced with a skeleton representing death. The skeleton is wrapped with a shroud. It is thus representative of one death for both genders.
The fact that the engraving represents a…

This image represents a woman, a man and a skeleton in a room. The men appears on the floor and the woman on the bed. It is thus a joint death of a man and a woman. The man seems to have tried to defend himself with a sword, whereas the woman seems…

In this illustration, four gentlemen and a woman are standing outside. On the left, a skeleton is holding a scythe while staring at them. The skeleton is not depicted with any specific gender traits.
The image overall represents the idea of one…

""The subject is a typical theme which recurs constantly in Graf's work, particularly his drawings, and serves as a reminder of his life as a professional soldier as well as the current feelings of misogyny which pervade so much of the art of this…

These images represent a Noblewoman and her husband holding hands while a skeleton plays the drums near them. The skeleton in the first three images is presented with hair, a traditionally feminine trait, whereas it appears without it in the last…

The image represents the Heathen and his wife on the left holding hands. On the right, a skeleton with a veil and breasts looks at the couple and holds the Heathen's hand. The skeleton is thus represented as female but attends to both genders the…

Original title: Dans van de Dood ("Dance of Death").This painting by Gestina ter Borch (image 1) was inspired by a lost design of a dagger by Hans Holbein the Younger. Image 2 represents another copy of Holbein's design by unknown (1523, c.). Images…

"For disobeying God’s orders and eating the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, Adam and Eve received the punishment of mortality, hard work, and pain. A skeleton, an obvious symbol of death, forms the trunk of the fatal tree, and…

The engraving portrays a young couple looking at each other. Behind them, a tree trunk. Peeking out of the tree and staring at the couple, a skeleton holding an hourglass. Gender perspective: In this engraving death represented by the skeleton is the…

"At the bottom, the memento mori pendant consists of three conjoined heads, a bearded man with wreath, a skull with worms curling out from his mouth, also with wreath, and a young woman with plaited and knotted hair. Where their heads meet above…