Creator: Pieter Nolpe, After Pieter Post
From Pieter Post (1651) Begraeffenisse van syne hoogheyt Frederick Henrick, Amsterdam: Pieter Post.
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Showing posts with label death. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 24, 2014
The Corpses of The Brothers De Witt
The corpses of the brothers De Witt, on the Groene Zoodje at the Lange Vijverberg in The Hague, 20 August 1672
by Jan de Baen
between and
Dying Adonis
Alternative title:
The blood of the dead Adonis turns into an anemone
by Hendrik Goltzius
1609
Monday, June 23, 2014
Vanitas Still Life
By Jacques de Gheyn II, 1603.
De Gheyn was a wealthy amateur who is best known as a brilliant draftsman, but he also painted and engraved. This panel is generally considered to be the earliest known independent still life painting of a vanitas subject. The skull, large bubble, cut flowers, and smoking urn refer to the brevity of life, while images floating in the bubble—such as a wheel of torture and a leper’s rattle—Spanish coins, and a Dutch medal refer to human folly. The figures flanking the arch above are Democritus and Heraclitus, the laughing and weeping philosophers of ancient Greece.
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Buonaparte, Ambition and Death
'Buonaparte, ambition and death' by George Cruikshank, published Jan. 1, 1814.
3 frame caricature showing Napoleon rising to power with bloody sword, on throne tormented by demons and being speared by skeleton (death).
Sin, Death, and the Devil
'Sin, Death, and the Devil - vide Milton' by James Gillray, Pubd. by H. Humphrey, June 9, 1792
Saturday, June 7, 2014
The Valley of The Shadow of Death
The Court of Death
From the original painting, by Rembrandt Peale, 1859
Print showing religious allegory based on a poem by Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London. Death sits on his throne in a cave. His agents include war, fire, famine, pestilence, pleasure, intemperance, remorse, delirium tremens, suicide, and disease. Old Age, an elderly man, is supported by a woman, Faith. Charles Willson Peale, the artist's father, served as a model for Old Age.
The court of death - original painting, by Rembrandt Peale, 1820.
Sunday, June 1, 2014
Grim Reaper
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Monday, May 12, 2014
Vintage Auto Accident Posters
It might happen to you!, 1939
Evite accidentes No se quede en la calle durante una alarma, 1942
Assorted Posters 1936-41
If ye break faith, 1936-41
Volpone, 1936-41
Don't mix 'em, 1936
One third of a nation, 1936-39
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