The Big Send-Off
Death scenes with every inch filled — crowded deathbeds, processions and mourners.
Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer · 1514
Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves: The Three Crosses
Rembrandt · 1653
The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment
Jan van Eyck · ca. 1440–41
The Judgment of Paris; he is sitting at left with Venus, Juno and Pallas Athena, a winged victory above; in the upper section the Sun in his chariot preceeded by Castor and Pollux on horseback; at lower right two river gods and a naiad above whom Jupiter, an eagle, Ganymede, Diana and another Goddess
Marcantonio Raimondi · Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · ca. 1510–20
Saint Anthony Tormented by Demons
Martin Schongauer · 1470–74
The Crucifixion with Saints and a Donor
Joos van Cleve · ca. 1520
The Crucifixion
Fra Angelico · ca. 1420–23
Martyrdom of the Ten Thousand
Albrecht Dürer · n.d.
The Turkish Family
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1496
Battle of the Sea Gods (right portion of frieze)
Andrea Mantegna · before 1481
Battle of the Sea-Gods (right portion of frieze)
Andrea Mantegna · ca. 1485–88
The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue
Albrecht Altdorfer · 1519
The Sudarium Displayed by an Angel
Albrecht Dürer · 1516
Saint Anthony Reading
Albrecht Dürer · 1519
Time Smoking a Picture
William Hogarth · ca. 1761
The Burial of Punchinello
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800
The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena
Giovanni di Paolo
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Albrecht Dürer · 1526
The Entombment
Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1656–57
The Crucifixion
Francesco Granacci · ca. 1510
Hercules chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses
Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi · Ugo da Carpi · ca. 1520–27
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1620
Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1645–50
The Lamentation
Domenichino · 1603
Untitled
Utagawa Toyokuni III · ca. 1824
The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte · Thomas Rowlandson · Rudolph Ackermann, London · April 16, 1815
The Corsican and His Bloodhounds at the Window of the Thuilleries Looking Over Paris
Napoléon Bonaparte · Rudolph Ackermann, London · Thomas Rowlandson · April 16, 1815
The Entombment
Rembrandt · ca. 1654
Samson Rending the Lion
Albrecht Dürer · ca. 1497–98
The Whore of Babylon, from "The Apocalypse"
Albrecht Dürer · 1498
Time Smoking a Picture
William Hogarth · March 1761
The Man of Sorrows
Michele Giambono · ca. 1430
Untitled
Okumura Masanobu · 18th century
The Sorcerer Atlante Abducting Pinabello's Lady (Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, canto II, 38)
Niccolo Pussino · ca. 1635–38
The Ass at School
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · Hieronymus Cock · 1557
The Skeletons, from "Grotteschi" (Grotesques)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Giovanni Bouchard · ca. 1748
児戯意乃三笑 恵恩芳子 · Mother and Child
Kitagawa Utamaro · ca. 1800
The Land of Cockaigne
Pieter Bruegel the Elder · Pieter van der Heyden · after 1570?
The Annunciation
Filippo Lippi
The Assumption of the Virgin with Saints Michael and Benedict
Luca Signorelli · ca. 1493–96
The Crucifixion
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1502
Christ before Herod, from the Passion
Lucas Cranach the Elder · 1492–1553
Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
James Gillray · James Aitken · William Shakespeare · June 20, 1789
A Phantasmagoria; — Scene – Conjuring-Up an Armed-Skeleton
James Gillray · James Gillray · January 5, 1803
Saint Jerome Hearing the Trumpet of the Last Judgment
Jusepe de Ribera · 1621
The poet, standing crowned with laurel, leaning on a stone
Jusepe de Ribera · 1620–21
Birth of Saint John the Baptist
Giulio Romano · Diana Scultori · 1555–88
Aeneas and his family fleeing Troy
Agostino Carracci · Federico Barocci · Donato Rasicotti · 1595
Pietà
Carlo Crivelli · 1476
Satire on the Papacy
Melchior Lorck · 1555
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