A monument teaching mortality, including figures and symbols alluding to death. Woodcut by A. Andreani after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588. zNSFW

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ANATOMÍAS; Acrylic on paper; Fernando Vicente Sánchez

Paper Mache and Wire; Mario Moreno; Tlapujahua, Michoacan, Mexico

"Obsessed: Taxidermy," Rachel Poliquin, The Huffington Post

Michel de Spiegelaere, Macabre Scene, 2010, Resin Composite Materials, As Seen at

Memento Mori, early 17th century, as seen at Morbid Curiosity: The Richard Harris

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette [1886] Oil on Canvas, Van Gogh Museum,

Organs of the body performing gymnastic exercises; representing courses in physical

A skeleton as a fashionably dressed woman. Engraving attributed to Gerhard Altzenbach,

Engraving by or after G. Fortuna, ca. 1588

An earlier German painting of the entire Dance of Death

A skeleton as Death embraces a pregnant woman. Woodcut by Gerhard Marcks, 1959.

The dance of death. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, 1808, after G.M. Woodward,

A skeleton as a woman wearing a brown and red dress and a black headdress. Oil painting,

John Bell (1763-1820) [anatomist; artist], Engravings of the bones, muscles, and

Diomedes Being Devoured by his Horses, 1865, Gustave Moreau

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Français 861, detail of 54r (Aeneas in the underworld).

Begging hands statues

Greed