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| Oskar Kokoschka The Mandrill 1926 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Co Westerik Studies of Rob Doorman 1944 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Vincent van Gogh Vase with Carnations 1886 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Camille Pissarro Les Coteaux, Auvers 1882 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Michelangelo Buonarroti Arm Studies for The Drunkenness of Noah (fresco study for the Sistine ceiling) ca. 1508 drawing Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Helena van der Kraan Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 1995 gelatin silver print Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Jan Sluijters Dumping Carts 1907 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Koen Taselaar 001 2013 screenprint Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Koen Taselaar 004 2013 screenprint Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Jacoba van Heemskerck Bild no. 66 1917 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Jacoba van Heemskerck Composition in Color no. 100 ca. 1918 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Anton Eisenhoit Allegorical Figure of Faith 1591 engraving Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Hippolyte Flandrin Study for Le Dante aux Enfers ca. 1834-35 drawing (study for painting) Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Paulo Veronese Supper at Emmaus ca. 1565-70 oil on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Charlotte Schleiffert Painting 1998 mixed media on canvas Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Meret Oppenheim Sous les résédas 1955 oil on panel Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
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| Ugo Rondinone Breathe Walk Die 2014 installation of aluminum, plexiglas & neon Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
Now although death were an extreme pain, sith it comes in an instant, what can it be? Why should we fear it, for while we are, it cometh not, and it being come, we are no more? Nay, though it were most painful, long continuing, and terrible-ugly, why should we fear it, sith fear is a foolish passion but where it may preserve? But it cannot preserve us from death; yea, rather fear maketh us to meet with that which we would shun, and banishing the comforts of present contentments, bringeth death more near unto us. That is ever terrible which is unknown; so do little children fear to go in the dark, and their fear is increased with tales.
But that, perhaps, which anguisheth thee most, is to have this glorious pageant of the world removed from thee in thy prime and most delicious season of thy life; for, though to die be usual, to die young may appear extraordinary. If the present fruition of these things be unprofitable and vain, what can a long continuance of them be? If God had made life happier, he had also made it longer. Stranger and new Halcyon, why wouldst thou longer nestle amidst these unconstant and stormy waves. Hast thou not already suffered enough of this world, but thou must yet endure more?
– William Drummond of Hawthornden, from A Cypress Grove (London: Hawthornden Press, 1919, reprinting the original edition of 1623)