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This painting portrays Saint Francis meditating. He is dressed in a brown habit and holds a skull with his hands. A cross appears lying underneath his hands holding the skull. The skull does not present any defining gender traits. However, the way…

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…

These images represent the day of the final judgment (in the third image The Last Judgment is depicted in the circle in the top right corner). Jesus appears either at the center or at the top of the image surrounded by those individuals who are in…

These photographies show the reliquary of what is believed to be St. John the Baptist's skull."In 1557, Duke Wilhelm V was officially granted the right to collect relics by the Pope. He amassed a notable collection of human remains of unknown…

These photographies show the reliquary of what is believed to be St. John the Baptist's skull. "During the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204), Wallon de Sarton, a Crusader from French Picardy, discovered in the ruins of a palace in Constantinople, a relic…

This engraving represents a naked young woman looking at herself in a mirror. On the background, death represented by a male skeleton with an hourglass looks at her.Gender perspective: This engraving is a curious deviation of the tradition of seeing…

This painting represents Queen Elizabeth I sitting and with her head resting on her right hand. Two cherubs appear above her head holding a crown, an old man (Old Father Time) appears on the left, and a skeleton with an hourglass appears on the…

This image represents a couple, a man and a woman. In the middle of the couple, there is an hourglass on top of a coat of arms. The death coat of arms has metal parts. The skeleton arms holding the hourglass look like a modern monster or automate,…

This image represents the wheel of death, and includes several elements, such as human remains and parcae. Although the figures that appear on the wheel of death are male figures of power, the dualism of gender appears in the two differentiated…

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…