Back to back with Death, by several authors (1500, c.)

Back to back with Death, by several authors (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 skeletons. For another such sculpture see: Vanitas, by School of Conrad Meit (1525, c.).

Images 1-3: Unknown (Unknown)
Images 4-6: Bailly, Chicart (c. 1490-1533)

Images 1-3:
Musée national de la Renaissance, château d’Ecouen. 

Found in L'artiste se cache dans l'oeuvre (La Mort dans le Dos (Frau Welt)) website:
https://artifexinopere.com/blog/interpr/la-mort-dans-le-dos-frau-welt/

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230203173420/https://artifexinopere.com/blog/interpr/la-mort-dans-le-dos-frau-welt/

Images 4-6:
Kupferstichkabinett, State Museum, Berlin, Germany
https://id.smb.museum/object/862672/memento-mori

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230505020938/https://recherche.smb.museum/detail/862672/memento-mori

Credit: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst / Antje Voigt CC BY-SA 4.0

Object number: 8554

Images 1-3: 1500, c.
Images 4-6: 1520, c.

Images 1-3:
Wood.
Dimensions: Unknown.

Images 4-6:
Ivory.
Dimensions: 28 × 9.1 × 7.9 cm