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page 1Skulls in art
Guernica
1937 oil painting by Pablo Picasso
danse macabre
artistic motif on the universality of death
Jolly Roger
pirate flag
The Ambassadors
painting by Hans Holbein the Younger
crystal skull
human skull stone carvings made of clear quartz, claimed to be pre-Columbian Mesoamerican
The Triumph of Death
painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
The Descent from the Cross
painting by Rogier van der Weyden in the Museo del Prado
Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
painting by Vincent van Gogh
skull and crossbones
symbol of death
La Calavera Catrina
1910–1913 sketching by José Guadalupe Posada
Knight, Death, and the Devil
copper engraving by Albrecht Dürer
St. Jerome in His Study
1514 engraving by Albrecht Dürer
Saint Jerome Writing
painting by Caravaggio (Valletta)
Saint Jerome
painting by Caravaggio
Death and the Miser
painting by Hieronymus Bosch
The Apotheosis of War
painting by Vasily Vereshchagin, 1871
Death and Life
painting by Gustav Klimt in the Leopold Museum, Vienna
Portrait of a young man with a skull
painting by Frans Hals
The Sirens and Ulysses
painting by William Etty
Death playing chess
mural by Albertus Pictor
For the Love of God
sculpture by Damien Hirst
Magdalene with the Smoking Flame
painting by Georges de La Tour
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
painting by Arnold Böcklin
Saint Jerome penitent
painting by Caravaggio in the Museum of Montserrat
Calavera
thumb|A sugar skull, a common gift for children and decoration for the Day of the Dead.
Braque Triptych
oil-on-oak altarpiece by Rogier van der Weyden
The Garden of Death
painting by Hugo Simberg
Yorick
thumb|The Young Lord Hamlet (Philip Hermogenes Calderon, 1868), depicting a living Yorick bearing the young prince on his back.
Yorick is an unseen character in William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. He is the dead court jester whose skull is exhumed by the First Gravedigger in Act 5, Scene 1, of the play. The sight of Yorick's skull evokes a reminiscence by Prince Hamlet of the man, who apparently played a role during Hamlet's upbringing:
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy; he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorre
Saint Jerome in His Study
1521 painting by Albrecht Dürer
The anatomy lesson of Dr. Joan Deijman
painting by Rembrandt
The Temptation of St. Anthony
painting by Salvador Dalí
The Penitent Mary Magdalene
painting by El Greco in Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
The Three Ages of Man
painting by Titian
The Vision of Saint Jerome
painting by Parmigianino
The Penitent Magdalen
painting by Georges de La Tour
Shakespeare's funerary monument
monument in Stratford-upon-Avon
Saint Francis in Meditation
painting by Caravaggio in the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone, Cremona
Saint Francis in Meditation
painting by Caravaggio (Palazzo Barberini)
Isabella and the Pot of Basil
painting by William Holman Hunt
The Triumph of Death
fresco in the Regional Gallery of Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo
The Crystal Ball
painting by John William Waterhouse
Crucifixion
painting by Bramantino
Lemminkäinen's Mother
painting by Akseli Gallen-Kallela
The Magic Circle
painting by John William Waterhouse, Tate Britain
Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings
work of art
The Four Witches
engraving by Albrech Dürer
Crucifixion
painting by Anthony van Dyck
Pyramid of Skulls
painting by Paul Cézanne
Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre
triptych print by Japanese artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi
Plastered human skulls
prehistoric burial practice
Crucifixion Diptych
painting by Rogier van der Weyden
A Young Artist (Ditlev Blunck) Examining a Sketch in a Mirror
painting by Wilhelm Bendz, Statens Museum for Kunst
Saint Mary of Egypt
painting by Jusepe de Ribera
The Repentant Magdalen
painting by Georges de La Tour
Stigmatisation of Francis of Assisi
painting by Peter Paul Rubens
Shirley Temple, The Youngest, Most Sacred Monster of the Cinema in Her Time
painting by Salvador Dalí
Penitent Magdalene
sculpture by Antonio Canova
Et in Arcadia ego
painting by Guercino
The Wounded Table
painting by Frida Kahlo
St. Jerome and the Angel of Judgment
painting by Jusepe de Ribera, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples