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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…

The image represents Mary Magdalen. Her head is resting on her folded hands, which in turn rest on a skull. The skull, although by Mary Magdalen's posture can be identified with her, presents no clear gender traits.

Original title: Magdalena penitente ("Penitent Magdalen").This painting represents Mary Magdalen in a red cloth doing penance in what appears to be a cave. Her hands appear folded in front of her chest, and she looks up. On the right, a genderless…

Original title: Magdalena penitente ("Penitent Magdalen").

This image represents Mary Magdalen doing penance. She is covered with a blue shroud and looks up with tears in her eyes. She is holding a skull that presents no gender traits. On her left…

In this image a female skeleton appears in the centre. On the left, a young man holds the skeleton's right arm and on the right a child is wrapped in a cloth.
The skeleton is clearly female, depicted with long wavy hair. The skeleton may even be…

Original title: Trompe l'oeil painting of man, woman, death, in El Donado Hablador Alonso, Mozo de Muchos Amos ("Optical illusion painting of man, woman, death in The Granted Speaker Alonso, Lad of Many Owners")Fragment from El Donado Hablador…

The emblem represents a skull that rests on an altar. Numerous bees appear surrounding the skull, and honeycombs appear in the foreground.

Gender perspective: Death as a contradictory category of bitterness and sweetness. It is presented a place…

The emblem represents a graveyard with the remains of many prominent figures, such as dukes, marquises, pontiffs and kings. Their crowns also appear in the graveyard, highlighting the equalizing power of death. This emblem represents a counterexample…

This illustration represents a newborn child. The description in Latin reads "Ossium et cartilaginum pueri recenter nati constructio", indicating that the child is male. The gender of the newborn is marked by the allusion of the bow to cupid.

This image is the title-page ofThe History of the World by Walter Ralegh (1615).The image represents the globe in the top centre, two female angels on each side, a woman in the centre underneath the globe holding it and two more female figures at…