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This work represents the biblical figure of Mary Magdalene doing penance. She is portrayed with a red cloth and holding a skull with no visual gender traits on her left hand. Both the skull and her are facing the viewer.

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This image represents Saint Jerome covered by a red cloth. He holds a paper on his left hand and a quill on his right. On the left, we can see a skull with no visual gender traits.

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This image represents Saint Mary of Egypt. She is depicted holding her hands, and resting these on a table. On her right on the table there is a skull with no visual gender traits and another pieces of bone.

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This image represents Saint Jerome with his hands crossed in front of his chest, and covered by a red cloth. In front of him, we can see a skull with no visual gender traits.

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This image represents Saint Mary of Egypt. She is depicted with her hands folded in front of her chest and covered with a cloth. On the right there is a skull with no visual gender traits and another piece of bone.

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The image represents saint Jerome covered from waist down with a red cloth, kneeling and looking up at an angel. On the right of the image, a skull with no visual gender traits rests on top of a book.

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This work is a self-portrait of the artist. In it, the artist appears writing on a skull that is stripped of any gender traits.

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This engraving shows Christ in the centre holding a cross, a man kneeling on the left, a woman on the right and three children next to the woman. On the ground under the cross there is a skull and a snake around it.

Gender perspective: Death,…

Macchina di Santa Rosa, “Fiore del Cielo” ("Flower of the Sky") (2009)
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…

Death and the Miser, by Bosch (1490, c.)
This image represents death as a skeleton with a shroud that covers the skull, and this feminizes the skeleton. The shroud, that covers the entire body, becomes a woman's tunic when the skeleton moves and it is stripped off any gender features.
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