Category
page 1Death in art
Trajan's Column
ancient Roman victory column, a landmark of Rome, Italy
Fallen Astronaut
sculpture of an astronaut on the moon
funerary art
grave art
Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl
painting by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Witches' Sabbath
painting by Francisco de Goya, 1798
Death playing chess
mural by Albertus Pictor
Crucifixion and Last Judgement diptych
diptych attributed to Jan van Eyck
The Sirens and Ulysses
painting by William Etty
Angel of Grief
sculpture
The Altar of St. John
triptych by Rogier van der Weyden
Still-Life with Partridge and Iron Gloves
painting by Jacopo de' Barbari
Liebestod
"'''" ( German for ) is the title often given to the final, dramatic music or aria from the opera ' by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the 1859 completed / 1865 premiered opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.
Testament and Death of Moses
fresco attributed to Luca Signorelli and Bartolomeo della Gatta in the Sistine Chapel
Death and the Maiden
art motif
Crucifixion in the arts
artistic theme
Saint Bonaventure's Body Lying in State
painting by Zurbaran
The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate
1832 painting by William Etty
The Cook
painting by Giuseppe Arcimboldo
Polish Prometheus
painting by Horace Vernet
The Martyrdom of Saint Erasmus
painting by Nicolas Poussin in the Vatican Museums
Peasant Coffin
painting by Aleksander Gierymski
La guillotine permanente
revolutionary song from the French Revolution
World War I Memorial
monument in Atlantic City, New Jersey
The First Funeral
Ernest Barrias sculpture
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan (MET, 2005.100.1201)