Смерть в старинной графике и живописи.

Здесь очень маленькая часть того, что есть. К этому сюжету или изображению смерти как образа обращались многие великие художники. А сюжетов масса- от "Адам, Ева , их дети и смерть" до "Куртизанка и смерть", есть очень интересные.

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans
Death and the Maiden
1518-20

Death and the sleeping woman
Engraving made by Sebald Beham after Barthel Beham, Germany 1548.
Lettered in the bottom left corner: "O. DIE STUND IST AUS" (Oh, the hour has come.')

Mother and a dead infant with a skull and hourglass

Engraving made by Barthel Beham, Germany, c.1528-30.

Adam and his wife, children and Death
Woodcut made by Sebald Beham, Printed in Nuremberg, 1530.
'Adam and his wife. Adam was one hundred and thirty years old when he begot a son in his image and called him Seth. Afterwards he lived for another eight hundred years and begot more sons and daughters. He died at the age of nine hundred and thirty years.')

"A memento mori as New Year greeting, about 1500
Xylographic sheet (in which text as well as image are cut in the block), 11 blocks, partly coloured and underlined in red, probably published in Munich

Death and the Courtesan- смерть и куртизанка
Death and the Courtesan
German
Woodcut
1522-1550
After Sebald Beham

Burying the Dead
two figures lowering the coffin on ropes into the grave, a priest behind holding an asperge and pectoral cross, acolytes holding Holy Water beside him.

Pen and brown ink, c.1510-1530, Attributed to Aerdt Ortkens, Presumably a series of one of the seven acts of mercy

Allegory on Death

Engraving made by Schelte Adamsz. Bolswert, After Boëtius Adamsz. Bolswert., Belgium, 1600-1633.
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La Mort à Cheval (Death on Horseback)
Stunning etching by the supreme draftsman and etcher Stefano Della Bella, dated 1663.
Della Bella was a prolific draftsman and etcher who succeeded Jacques Callot at the Medici grand-ducal court as a professional designer-printmaker. The roots of his graphic style lie in the calligraphic Mannerism of Callot, but during the course of his career Della Bella developed into an exuberant Baroque artist. His work remained influential for many decades and has been actively collected up to the present day. Della Bella was born into an artistic family; his father was a sculptor, and his three brothers all became artists.

Death and the Standing Naked One,1547
Engraving by the wonderful German printmaker Hans Sebald Beham, 1547.

Death Three Naked Women, circa 1520-50
Engraving by the wonderful German printmaker Hans Sebald Beham, circa 1520-50.
Barthel's work named as the first state in Hollstein (after Pauli), the second state is Sebald Beham's reworking of the plate of around 1546-50 with his own monogram.
The composition is based on Dürer's Four Witches of 1497, the image of death appearing to three women also popular in Baldung's work.

Death and the Indecent Pair
Engraving by the wonderful German printmaker Hans Sebald Beham, 1529.

Lovers Surprised by Death

A colour woodcut printed from three blocks

The image of Death became widespread in late medieval Christian art, particularly in Germany. Rarely in art, however, did Death shatter the lives of mortals with the violence shown here by Burgkmair (1473-1531).

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans
The Groom Bewitched
c. 1544
Woodcut, 33 x 19,7 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington

Death appearing to a wedded couple from an open grave
Rembrandt

The Nun's Dance of Death

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Holbein's Dances of Death"

In 1538, Hans Holbein the Younger publishes his 'Totentanz' (Dance of death), a work of art that will redefine its own genre. In Holbein's work, Death is still very aggressive; however, it does not dance with the deads anymore, but intervenes directly in scenes of everyday life. Paris' dance of death had dominated the genre in the late Middle-Ages; from 1538 on, the work of Holbein became the ultimate reference. The series of 41 wood engravings was created around 1526 and published 12 years later in Basle. Holbein was not the first to use the woodcut technique instead of the traditional fresco to create a dance of death.

Hans Holbien's The dances of death through the various stages of human life: wherein the capriciousness of that tyrant is exhibited...

Я позже выложу весь этот цикл Гольбейна, хочется найти качество получше.

The Body of Gillis van Ledenberg-Het Lijk van Gillis van Ledenberg)
Enigmatic dutch engraving, Attributed to Hendrik Bary, dated between the years 1655-1707.

House of a Quack, circa 1745, William Hogarth, "Marriage-à-la-mode"

Alexander Ver Huell (1822-1897)- цикл из 18 гравюр.

Alexander Ver Huell

Memento Mori: "'Death and Life Contrasted'... or 'An Essay on Man,'" printed by Bowles & Carver (undated: 1750-1770?).
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Hans_Baldung_Grien_The_Young_Woman_and_Death.

BLAKE, William
Adam and Eve Sleeping
1808
Pen and watercolor on paper
492 x 387 mm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Об опасности сифилиса.
A wonderfully evocative image illustrating--quite graphically--the dangers of syphilis in the form of seductive women, circa 1851. I came across this image, which serves as the frontspiece of A. M. Barthélémy's Syphilis: Poeme en Quatre Chants

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danza_macabra- танец смерти

triumph_of_death bauer schmidt

MEMLING, Hans
The Martyrdom of St Sebastian
c. 1475
Oil on wood, 67,4 x 67,7 cm
Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels

BOSCH, Hieronymus
Death and the Miser
c. 1490
Oil on wood, 93 x 31 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Other works by the artist...

Matthias Grünewald. Resurrection,1510-1515.

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans
Death and the Maiden
1518-20
Oil on panel, 31 x 19 cm
Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel

BALDUNG GRIEN, Hans
Eve, the Serpent, and Death
1510-12
Panel
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

The Knight, the Young Girl, and Death
c. 1505
Oil on wood, 355 x 296 cm
Musйe du Louvre, Paris

Three Ages of the Woman and the Death
1510
Oil on limewood,48 x 32,5 cm
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Three Ages of Man
1539
Oil on panel, 151 x 61 cm
Museo del Prado, Madrid

BECCAFUMI, Domenico
Italian painter, Sienese school (b. ca. 1486, Castel Monaperto, d. 1551, Siena)
Fall of the Rebel Angels
c. 1524
Oil on wood, 347 x 227 cm
Pinacoteca Nazionale, Siena

"Sir Thomas Aston at the Deathbed of his Wife," John Souch, 1635

Paolo Vincenzo Bonomini 1757 - Bergamo, 1839; pittore italiano.

Bonomini il tamburino della Cisalpina.

Bonomini il carpentiere.

BROC, Jean
The Death of Hyacinth
1801
Oil on canvas, 175 x 120 cm
Musée Rupert de Chièvres, Poitiers

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Paul Rumsey
His work looks more 15th century fantasy or 19th century graphic print than anything from our own century; I mean that in the best of ways.

Paul Rumsey

transi (or tomb figure depicting the decaying cadaver of the deceased) sculpted by Ligier Richier in 1547.

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