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Anonymous French Artists
Tomb Figures for Philippe Pot, Grand Seneschal of Burgundy
ca. 1495
painted limestone
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous French Artist
Loving Couple and Figure of Death
ca. 1490-1500
ivory scepter pommel
Musée du Louvre

Riccio (Andrea Briosco)
Funerary Relief of Hell - Tomb Element for Girolamo and Marc Antonio della Torre
ca. 1515-20
bronze
(Napoleonic loot seized in Italy)
Musée du Louvre

Frémin Roussel
Recording Angel
1563-65
marble figure for royal tomb of François II
Musée du Louvre

Anonymous German Sculptor
Death's Head - Memento Mori
ca. 1550-1650
rock crystal
Musée du Louvre

Valerio Marucelli
Skull and Crucifix
before 1620
drawing
British Museum

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Skeleton of Bat
1620
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Skeleton of Camel
1620
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Skeleton of Gurnard
1620
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Filippo Napoletano (Filippo Angeli)
Skeleton of Turkey
1620
etching
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Anonymous French Artist
La Musique
ca. 1685-1700
marble relief (tomb element)
Musée du Louvre

Gaspare Diziani
Discovery of a Skeleton in a Loggia
before 1767
drawing
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Michele Tedesco
Death of the Goldfinch
1872
oil on canvas
Museo Michele Tedesco, Moliterno

Max Beckmann
Small Scene of Death
1906
oil on canvas
Alte Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Ashley Havinden
Keep Death Off The Road
ca. 1942
lithograph
(poster for British Ministry of War Transport)
Museum of Modern Art, New York

Claes Oldenburg
Proposal for a Skyscraper for Michigan Avenue, Chicago
in the form of Lorado Taft’s sculpture, Death
1968
collage and graphite on paper
Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York

Jerome Witkin
Study of Claudia Glass as Death
1980
drawing
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC

In legend all were simple,

And held the straitened spot;

But we in legend not,

Are not simple.

In weakness how much further;

Along what crooked route

By hedgehog's gradual foot,

Or fish's fathom.

Bitter the blue smoke rises

From garden bonfires lit,

To where we burning sit:

Good, if it's thorough.

It won't be us who eavesdrop

In days of luck and heat,

Timing the double beat

At last together.

– W.H. Auden (1931)