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In these images, a neuter skull appears either above or below the portrait the engravings represent (John Donne in image 1 and Margaret Herbert in image 2). This indicates that the skull of fame is the same for both genders. The man in image 1…

These images appear on different sides of a single sheet of paper. The woman with the lower part of her body portrayed as a skeleton (second image) appears on a side of the paper. When folded over, one can see the same woman, and the half skeleton is…

Wall monument to the Rev Samuel Lowe and his wife Ann in All Saints Church at High Laver, Essex, England. In the lower part of the monument, an inscription reading "In cujus memoriam hoc marmor. Execut res Posuere". On both sides of the inscription,…

"Memento Mori; a nude woman holding a sundial, standing on a skull; with vast landscape behind." (Description from the British Museum, London, UK,https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1845-0809-455)

"I smiled then, and told him: Your Grace, sir, you have not understood this mystery: you will have to know that this image that you mention is a painting made with a certain trace, now invented with certain slats, which painted on one side make it…

"Bead from a chaplet or rosary; carved ivory with traces of red and black paint. Formed of four half-length figures placed back to back. One represents a young man in the costume of the time with cap turned up and jewelled and a fur-collared jacket…

"This is an ivory memento mori, depicting a male head, a female head, and a skull conjoined. First this bead appears to have be made in the first half of the 16th century, but is made in the 19th century in France, probably Paris." (Description from…

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…

Engraving of male and female bodies that appear on the cover of Mikrokosmographia: A description of the body of man: Together with the controversies thereto belonging, byHelkiah Crooke (1615), printed in London by William Iaggard dwelling in the…

This illustration represents the bodies of a man on the left and a woman on the right. Other human body parts are depicted on either side of the illustration. Even though both genders are represented on either side, some common organs, such as…