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These images represent a Duchess on her bed being dragged out by a skeleton while another skeleton plays the violin. Thus, a feminine character (Duchess) is being taken by two skeletons, a clearly feminine one (with long hair) and a masculine or…

These woodcuts portray an empress and a skeleton surrounded by young women. The skeleton embodies the typical case of feminine death specific for women, as it is represented with breasts and its skull is covered with the same item as the other young…

These images represent a Noblewoman and her husband holding hands while a skeleton plays the drums near them. The skeleton in the first three images is presented with hair, a traditionally feminine trait, whereas it appears without it in the last…

These images represent a nun kneeling on the floor with her head covered holding rosary beads and looking at a young man play an instrument on a bed. Next to the nun, a skeleton with breasts and her skull covered. These images are examples of death…

This image represents a skeleton taking a queen surrounded by young women. These images are examples of death as jester or fool, as the skeleton wears a fool's hat. Its costume parodies some of the elements of the dead, among these the clothes, and…

This image shows a queen and a skeleton. The skeleton has flesh from the neck down and has feminine attributes such as hair and breasts. There is also a snake wrapped around her neck. This death represents the death of queens or important women, as…

A woman in the center of the picture is dressed in a red dress. Two skeletons are dancing on both of her sides. They are semi-covered by a white cloth. On the left side, a man wears a crown and holds a sword and the globus cruciger.Gender…

This illustration appears in the third section: La Danse macabre des femmes (The Dance of Death of Women) of the manuscript Français 995. Gender perspective: According to the text, the illustration represents the death of a Queen, it can also be seen…

Death approaching a baronnesse. Notice how the clearly female corpse at the bottom of the page mirrors the generic skeleton at the top of the page. A similar image can be seen at Davidson, Clifford, Sophie Oosterwijk, John Lydgate, and EBSCOhost.…

This emblem shows cupid and death, represented by a winged child and a flying skeleton, respectively, flying over people and shooting them. On the ground, we can see a young man on the right, and an old man and a woman on the left.

The emblem…