Title
Skeleton as death feminized by shroud, by Bosch (1490, c.)
Description
This image represents death as a skeleton with a shroud that covers the skull, and this feminizes the skeleton. The shroud, that covers the entire body, becomes a woman's tunic when the skeleton moves and it is stripped off any gender features.
Creator
Bosch, Hieronymus (c. 1450 - 1516)
Source
Death and the Miser, by Bosch (1490, c.)
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41645.html
Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20201109215421/https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.41645.html
Accession Number: 1952.5.33
Wikimedia Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hieronymus_Bosch_-_Death_and_the_Miser_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg
Date
1490, c.
Relation
Other representations that include a skeleton with similar features as those described here include:
- Middle skeleton on the right in The Three Living and the Three Dead, by Madonna Master (attributed) (1310, c.)
- The skeleton on the left in Danse Macabre, by Notke (1475, c.)
- A skeleton holding an inscribed plaque. Mezzotint., by Christian Leopold (1750, c.)
- Vanitas, by School of Conrad Meit (1525, c.)
- Death as a procuress, by Rogier (1850, c.)
- Death tramples over female flesh, by Unknown (1700, c.)
- Trying to bribe death as a procuress, by Anonymous (1617)
- The skeleton on the left in Two skeletons on a pedestal, by Anonymous Italian artist (1750, c.)
- Middle skeleton on the right in The Three Living and the Three Dead, by Madonna Master (attributed) (1310, c.)
- The skeleton on the left in Danse Macabre, by Notke (1475, c.)
- A skeleton holding an inscribed plaque. Mezzotint., by Christian Leopold (1750, c.)
- Vanitas, by School of Conrad Meit (1525, c.)
- Death as a procuress, by Rogier (1850, c.)
- Death tramples over female flesh, by Unknown (1700, c.)
- Trying to bribe death as a procuress, by Anonymous (1617)
- The skeleton on the left in Two skeletons on a pedestal, by Anonymous Italian artist (1750, c.)
Format
Oil on panel.
Dimensions: 93 × 31 cm
Dimensions: 93 × 31 cm
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