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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…

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In this illustration, a little girl is reaching for an hourglass held by a skeleton wearing a crown, cape and arrow. The girl is being pulled away from the king skeleton by a child with a halo. Thus, the soul is represented as female and death is…

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The image depicts an angel with butterfly wings, dressed in red and holding a mirror where a skull is reflected on. There is ambiguity regarding the gender of the angel. The skull on the other hand is probably feminine since it is reminiscent of the…

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In these two panels, the artist portrays the crucifixion of Christ on the left and the Judgment day on the right. In the second panel we can see Christ in the top center, heaven is represented on the top half of the panel and hell on the bottom half.…

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This image represents a couple (man and woman) sitting on a table and drinking. A skeleton without any sex or gender traits appears on the right. This is another example of death as the third member of the couple, or one death for both genders.

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The cover of this edition depicts many skeletons and skulls. The three panels that appear at the bottom of the illustration represent: on the left panel two skeletons, a kid and an old man, on the central panel, a group of men studying the dead body…

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Original title: Jonge vrouw met een schedel Memento Mori ("Young woman with a skull Memento Mori").

A young woman, who is well dressed and wearing a pearl necklace and earrings, holds a skull in her hands while she stares at it.

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This engraving represents a skeleton throwing elements from a table to the ground. Among these elements we can find coins, a book, a musical instrument, a crown, etc. The skeleton itself does not display any specific gender traits.
Although the…

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"A woman, standing, divided vertically into two, the right side showing her in life, the left side showing her after her death, as a skeleton. The right side shows the pleasures of life: red ribbons in her powdered hair, jewellery, a bouquet in her…

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"This colored pen drawing presents a monument known as atransi tomb which gives two views of the body of the deceased. In this case in the compartment above the woman is beautifully dressed, reclining with her hands folded in prayer, and further…
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