Carpaccio, Vittore (c.1460-c.1526) Meditazione sulla passione (The Meditation on the Passion) c.1490 Oil and tempera on wood, 66.5 × 84.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This remarkable picture is a meditation on death and resurrection. Christ’s dead body is displayed…
David, Jacques-Louis (1748-1825) La mort de Sénèque (The Death of Seneca) 1773 Oil on canvas, 123 x 160 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Seneca, Lucius Annaeus minor (4 BC-65 AD)
Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 Burin engraving, 24.6 x 19 cm Petit Palais, Paris Compare: Dürer, Albrecht (1471-1528) Knight, Death and the Devil 1513 National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923) Le Fou et la Mort (The Fool and Death) 1877 Bronze, 33 x 28.5 x 31 cm Petit Palais, Paris
Ingres, Jean Auguste Dominique (1780-1867) François 1er reçoit les derniers soupirs de Léonard de Vinci (Francis I receives the last breaths of Leonardo da Vinci) 1818 Oil on canvas, 40 x 50.5 cm Petit Palais, Paris See also: • Francis I,…
Poussin, Nicolas (1594-1665) La mort de Germanicus (The Death of Germanicus) 1627 Oil on canvas, 148 x 198.1 cm Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
Tintoretto, Jacopo (1518-1594) Caino uccide Abele (Cain Killing Abel) 1540s Oil on wood, 31 × 78.5 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) La douleur du pacha (The Grief of the Pasha) 1885 Oil on canvas, 92.71 x 73.66 cm Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Les péchés capitaux dominés par la mort (The deadly sins dominated by death) 1904 Etching on paper, 16 x 24.8 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo
Ensor, James (1860-1949) Face à la mort des masques (Masks Confronting Death) 1888 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 100.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York