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The engraving represents three allegorical figures: Satan, sin and death. Satan is represented on the left by a winged man that is trying to attack death. Sin is in the middle of the two figures trying to impede the conflict, and is represented by a…

The image represents Jesus after being crucified in the arms of the virgin Mary. Behind the scene the cross appears and chained to the cross, on the right there is a skeleton with wings and an hour glass, and on the left there is a man with wings and…

The painting depicts a female angel holding a globe and a portrait in front of two tables filled with objects. On the left, there are seven skulls piled up near a rifle, armor, candle and hourglass. On the right there is a gold and ornate clock,…

The painting depicts a still life picture with walnuts. Many critics see in this painting a vanitas and the nuts like skulls.

Gender perspective: Since it is a metaphorical use of a fruit to depict human beings, all references to gender…

The image depicts the corpse of a male knight lying on the ground, with clothes. Above this, a female figure with long blonde hair levitates while an angel holds the cloth that covers her body. The female figure represents the soul of the male…

These portraits represent Nicolás Omazur (image 1) and his wife Isabel del Malcampo (image 2), who commissioned these separate portraits from Murillo.

Gender perspective: The skull in his portrait (image 1) is represented with the flower his wife…

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…

Against the Catholic tradition of differentiating the hearts of Jesus and Maria with different attributes (crowns vs. swords), there is a clear tendency to present a neutral or even feminized (very rounded) hearts to represent the human soul as…

Hands to suggest action are common in emblems and other symbolic images. Unless they are specifically attributed to God, they are hands of ungendered agents. It is difficult to interpret hands as not masculine given the idea of action they…

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…