Death and two children, by Lochom (1628)

Title

Description

This image represents death on the left, depicted as a neutral skeleton that seems to be an agent in a gender transformation between a girl and a boy (on the center and right), or at least a transforming agent between two figures of undefined gender to represent an alive and a dead body.

Creator

Lochom, Michel van (1601-1647)

Source

Emblem from the book Amoris divini et humani antipathia ("Love, human and divine antipathy") by Lochom (1628).
Emblematica Online - Resources for Emblem Studies.
http://emblematica.grainger.illinois.edu/oebp/ui/#/results?ekeywords=death&tab=emblemdetail&eskip=36&emblemid=ad1628036&bookid=huygens.knaw.nl_3Aemitx_3Aad1628

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201114004756/https://emblems.hum.uu.nl/static/images/ad1628/pictura/ad1628036pict.jpg

Date

1628

Format

Illustration.
Dimensions: 15 cm