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Ian Fleming (1908-1964), Goldfinger.

London:Jonathan Cape, 1959. 8c. Half title. Original black cloth, the upper cover with a blind-stamped skull with gold coins as eyes, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket prices 15s. netdesigned by Richard Chopping with the same skull with a rose in its mouth on the upper wrapper and 5 reviews on the lower wrapper (one very small chip to head of backstrip of jacket). First edition.

Jacopo Ligozzi, Avarice, 1590, pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with gold on laid paper (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984.56.1)

Jan Lievens (1607-1674), Vanitas : an old man, half length, in a fur lined coat, holding a skull

Jason Limon,Play With Fire, 2019

I am really sorry, but the uncensored version of this post was immediately flagged. The woman is holding the men’s (soft) penis.

Hans Sebald Beham, Der Tod und das unzüchtige Paar (Death and the lewd couple), 1529

“Mors ultima linea rerum”

Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913, artist, Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm), publisher,Calaveras de la cucaracha, una fiesta en ultratumba (Skulls of the cockroach, a party in the afterlife), circa 1906-1915

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harvardfineartslib:

Skeletons have always been popular in art schools. Meet Mr. Skeleton from a 1578 engraving of an Academy of fine arts by Cornelis Cort. Notice that both the skeleton and the cadaver being sketched by students are hung by long ropes from the ceiling. It must have been difficult to concentrate on drawing the former during the active dissection of the latter.

Academy of fine arts
engraving
Cort, Cornelis (1533-before 1578, Flemish), artist
1578
435 x 297 mm.
Dutch

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Six Skulls, 1976

A carved wood model of a snake and skull, Meui period (late 19th century), signed Dai Nihon Sukeyuki (Izumi Sukeyuki, 1838-1920)

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino (1591-1666), A vanitas still-life with a skull atop a book, an hourglass and two glass vases of flowers

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Untitled (Skull B)

A Sashi Style Stag Antler Netsuke, signed Essai (Hokkyo Sessai, 1820-1879)

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Garlanded bucrania on a frieze from the Samothrace temple complex (known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods), Arsinoé rotunda

deathandmysticism:

Josef Ferdinand Fromiller, Vanitas, 1722

Found in Camino Real Imports Santa Fe, New Mexico, summer 2019

C.J. Culliford (1817-1893), Egyptian Hall, Maskeline and Cooke’s Marvellous Entertainment

“Naturally a Japanese child, when sent in the dusk to draw water, will do so with fear and trembling, for this limp, floppy apparition might scare the boldest.” From Books and Bookmen (1886) by Andrew Lang, a collector of Japanese bogie stories

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Hugo Simberg, Kuoleman puutarha (The Garden of Death), 1896

Winged Skull, Italy, 17th/18th century

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“TheBorremose bodies are three bog bodies that were found in the Borremose peat bog in Himmerland,Denmark. Recovered between 1946 and 1948, the bodies of a man and two women have been dated to the Nordic Bronze Age.”

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A framed Mosasaur skull, Kansas, USA

The photo originally appeared in the November 1928 issue of National Geographic. The original caption was: “With huge cadaver masks, imitation tiger-skin skirts, and enormous claws, this performer and his seven similarly garbed companions strike terror to the hearts of spectators in the Old Dance. They are assistants of Showa the Deer, messenger of Yama”. The picture was taken in 1925, when Joseph Rock visited Choni monastery in Gansu province, where he based himself for two years while undertaking his unsuccessful attempt to reach the mountains of Amnyi Machen. During that time he witnessed the “devil dancers” of Choni.

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thefugitivesaint:

Louis Raemaekers (1869-1956), ‘De l'est à l'ouest, de l'ouest à l'est’ (’From East to West, from West to East’), “La Grande Guerre par les artistes” by René Georges Hermann-Paul, 1914-15

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Master of Belmonte (1450-1500), Saint Michael

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Adolph Menzel, An Uninvited Guest, 1844

hellonheelz93:

FromLustige Blätter, 1899.

Zdzisław Beksiński (1929-2005), The Trumpeter,

Steven Arnold, Grotto of Madame la Mort, 1982

Macro Mazzoni, DEVORE, 2012

A skeleton rocking chair.

I have no information about this piece, but still wished to publish it for obvious coolness reason. If anyone has background for it, please message me !