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Saint Rose's machine
Original title: Macchina di Santa Rosa ("Saint Rose's machine")The Macchina di Santa Rosa is a tower used in Viterbo, Italy to venerate the patron Saint of the city, Saint Rose of Viterbo. The tower has been made of different materials throughout the…
Vanitas bust of a lady with a crown of flowers on a ledge, by Ykens (1688)
This vanitas plays with the confusion of naturalia and artificialia, deconstructing the markers of femininity alluded to the image. This is a fragment of an elegant woman presented as an object, a bizarre statue that emphasizes her breasts, which…
Dance of Death, by Wolgemut (1493, c.)
Five skeletons are depicted in this illustration dancing around a grave. one of the skeletons is in the grave in a state of decomposition while covered by a shroud and with snakes crawling around its body. On the left, another skeleton is playing the…
A struggle conversation between death and natural life, by Wandereisen (printed by) (1538)
Original title: Ein Kampfgesprech zwischen dem Todt und dem Natürlichen Leben ("A struggle conversation between death and natural life")."Death; holding a scythe, standing to right; an hourglass on a tree stump at right; the body of two men on the…
Saint James the hermit and female skeleton, by de Vos (1600, c.)
This engraving represents the scene when Saint James the hermit looks at a female skeleton. This is one of the few cases where the skeleton's gender is identified as feminine, and this can be seen in the lettering: "Dextera ne flamma(m?) rapiat,…
Illustration in an edition of Vesalius' De Humani Corporis fabrica Epitome,with annotations by Fontani (1642)
This illustration depicts a naked young man on the left holding an apple in his left hand, and a naked young woman on the right covering her lower abdomen with her right hand. On the ground between the two people, what appears to be a skull and a…
Cover of an edition of Vesalius' De Humani Corporis fabrica Epitome, with annotations by Fontani (1642)
The illustration on the cover of this edition shows two naked children on the top of the illustration with two skulls next to them. In the center, a man on the left and a skeleton on the right hold a cloth with the title of the book. The bottom…
Death killing envy represented as a female allegory, by Veen (1612)
Death, represented by a skeleton with hair and a beard and holding a scythe, kills a woman who is lying on the floor.
Soul as a female with a man, by Veen, Ledesma and Hattronius (1615)
This image represents a little girl being burnt on a stake by a man. A winged cherub is holding the girl.
Soul as a female with a gender-neutral skull, by Veen, Ledesma and Hattronius (1615)
The image represents a little girl lying and sleeping on top of a skull while cupid looks at her. Although the child is represented as a little girl, the skull is represented as neutral, stripped off of any gender identifiers.