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| Christian Rohlfs Death with Coffin ca. 1910 woodcut High Museum of Art, Atlanta |
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| Eglon van der Neer Allegory of Death 1677 oil on panel Rhode Island School of Design, Providence |
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| Jacopo Ligozzi Death strangling a Warrior 1597 drawing Morgan Library, New York |
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| Hans Baldung The Three Stages of Life with Figure of Death ca. 1509-1510 oil on panel Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jan Lievens Squabbling Card Players and Death 1638 etching Leiden Collection, New York |
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| Antonio de Pereda Vanitas ca. 1670 oil on canvas Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence |
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| Maria van Oosterwyck Vanitas Still Life with Skull 1668 oil on canvas Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Jean-François de Le Motte Trompe l'oeil Vanitas Still Life with Skull ca. 1670 oil on canvas Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon |
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| Johann Adalbert Angermeyer Vanitas Still Life with Skull 1731 oil on panel Deutsche Barockgalerie, Augsburg |
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| Franciscus Gysbrechts Vanitas Still Life with Skull ca. 1675 oil on canvas Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest |
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| Jan Davidsz de Heem Vanitas Still Life with Skull 1652 oil on panel Národní Galerie, Prague |
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| Anonymous German Artist Skull 17th century ivory Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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| Anonymous Netherlandish Artist Memento Mori 1530 oil on panel Mauritshuis, The Hague |
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| Anonymous French Artist Memento Mori - Pendant to a Rosary ca. 1525 ivory Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Anonymous French Artist Memento Mori - Pendant to a Rosary ca. 1525 ivory Detroit Institute of Arts |
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| Anonymous French Artist Memento Mori - Pendant to a Rosary ca. 1525 ivory Detroit Institute of Arts |
Tom the Lunatic
Sang old Tom the lunatic
That sleeps under the canopy:
That sleeps under the canopy:
'What change has put my thoughts astray
And eyes that had so keen a sight?
What has turned to smoking wick
Nature's pure unchanging light?
And eyes that had so keen a sight?
What has turned to smoking wick
Nature's pure unchanging light?
'Huddon and Duddon and Daniel O'Leary,
Holy Joe, the beggar-man,
Wenching, drinking, still remain
Or sing a penance on the road;
Something made these eyeballs weary
That blinked and saw them in a shroud.
'Whatever stand in field or flood,
Bird, beast, fish or man,
Mare or stallion, cock or hen,
Stands in God's unchanging eye
In all the vigour of its blood,
In that faith I live or die.'
– W.B. Yeats (1931)