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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.

Original title: Sorella morte ("Sister death").Fragment from Il Cantico del Sole/ Cantico della Creature (The Canticle of the Sun), by Francis of Assisi (1224), where the author describes death as "sorella morte" or "sora morte" (Sister…

"The eerie disembowelment on Elizabeth is said to depict the hollow where once their was a womb. On inspection we found a large spider had spun a web within adding more creepiness to the macabre skeleton. The idea of depicting the couple as cadavers…

These images represent a tradition that depicted Jesus and other religious individuals as hearts. These hearts tend to ne anatomically identical, although Virgin Mary's tend to be represented with daggers, whereas Jesus' is represented with thorns.…

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.

The engraving represents three allegorical figures: Satan, sin and death. Satan is represented on the left by a winged man that is trying to attack death. Sin is in the middle of the two figures trying to impede the conflict, and is represented by a…

This engraving represents several images of medical treatments and anatomy. On the top half, we can see a human skeleton and on the right and left, figures of a man and a woman. This could indicate that the same skeleton is represented for both…

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…

This image represents Saint Peter and Mary Magdalen holding a heart with thorns, Jesus’ heart. The legend in Latin mentions that God grieves with compunged hearts, and thus the heart in the engraving is both of theirs.

This painting represents Saint Mary of Egypt. She appears sitting, with her hands folded in front of her chest and looking up. In front of her, a skull with no identifiable gender traits.
Saint Mary's body is masculinized in this painting as a…