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Jan van de Velde II, Death with arrow and hourglass, 1633

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Orpheus in Hades (Detail), 1897 - Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau

#orpheus #grief #death #loss #music #hades #marcel-beronneau #19th century

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Rachel Ann Stevenson BITTER SWEET Height 26 cm, Edition of 25 Glass dome, wood, entomology, resin

#scultpure #skeleton #art #taxidermy #resin #entomology #death #memento mori #Rachel Ann Stevenson

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#old books #antigues #death #memento mori #thanatography #thanatography thursday

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“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”

#David Bowie #david bowie quotes #skull #death #death acceptance #mortality

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Jeffrey Catherine Jones, The Dark Angel

#jeffreycjones #darkangel #azrael #death #symbolism #fantasy #angel

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From: John Marshall “ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS” 436pp, Smith Elder, London, 1878

#anatomy #anatomy for artists #figure #figure drawing #medical illustration #art instruction #skeleton #mortality

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#death #skull #still life #early photography

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“Ebrahim Khadem Bayat’s untitled, ethereal photo of a bird on a draped chair plays on ideas of presence and absence. (Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery, University of Maryland)”

#Ebrahim Khadem Bayat #photography #art #fine art #fine art photography #absence #grief #death

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Ebrahim Khadem Bayat

#photography #portrait #death #absence #fine art #fine art photography

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Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep… or do they?

Unfinished illustration inspired by survivor’s guilt

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Alleged emission and re-absorption of ectoplasm by a medium, observed by German physician and psychiatrist Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing in 1913

#seance #ectoplasm #medium #clairvoyant #hoax #19th Century

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Beautiful work by Pablo Acero. 

#death #decay #cadaver #animals #death and rebirth #drawing #corpse #la douleur exquise

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#morgue #photography #death in art #death #cadavers #beauty #dying

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#death #dollhouses #forensics #diorama #crime

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La Jeune Fille et la Mort painted by Marianne Stokes in 1900. via www.didoisux-wordpress-com.

#death #death depictions #death embodied #death and the maiden