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Original title: Vrolijk gezelschap dat door de dood wordt gestoord ("Cheerful company disturbed by death").This painting represents a banquet, where some of the guests are humans, and others are skeletons. Most of the skeletons on the left seem to…

Original title: Vrouw (Aeltien?) staand naast de Dood in de Sint-Michaëlskerk, Zwolle ("Woman (Aaltje?) Standing next to Death in the Sint-Michaëlskerk, Zwolle")."Woman standing in the choir of the Sint-Michaëlskerk in Zwolle, possibly Gesina's…

Original title: De overwinning van de Schilderkunst over de Dood ("The Victory of Painting over Death").The painting depicts a room. In the center of the room, a young woman with her mouth covered is painting a tower. To her right, another young…

Original title: Dans van de Dood ("Dance of Death").This painting by Gestina ter Borch (image 1) was inspired by a lost design of a dagger by Hans Holbein the Younger. Image 2 represents another copy of Holbein's design by unknown (1523, c.). Images…

The hand represented in the emblem is smalll and delicate, perhaps female, to emphasize that the measure of a palm is small, just like life is, as indicated by the title in Latin (Vita Brevis "life is short"). The fragmentation of the body except for…

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.

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…

This engraving represents a young woman and a skeleton holding her arm and showing her an hourglass. Although the Latin inscription mentions that death abolishes all beauty in any man, the victim is a female taken away by a skeleton that is neuter or…

This engraving depicts an urn with two birds and a flower. On both sides of the urn, two skulls looking towards the urn.

If the image depicts an urn of a married couple, the skull on the left would represent the husband (male) and the skull on…

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…