#xvie siècle

Gaspard Masery, Le Peintre et la Mort (The Painter and Death) (detail), 1559

MODICUM ITERU MODICU

Source

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)

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”

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

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