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Remembrances of Death

Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;

Master MK, Vanitas

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Mosaic, Pompei

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Pieter Claesz, Vanitas, 1645

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Hendrik Goltzius 1594

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Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Vanitas

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Williem Van Drielenburg, S. Gerolamo e Vanitas, 1677

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Guercino, Et in Arcadia Ego

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Saint Jerome, Michelangelo

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Thanatos (Mors)

For those whom thou thinkst thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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Gustave Dore, Grim Reaper

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Nineteenth Century tarot Card

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Colin DePlancy

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Jacek Malczewski, Thanatos

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And soonest our best men with thee do go
Rest of their bones and soul's delivery.

Hieronymus Bosch, Death and the Misery

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Arnold Bocklin

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German Plague mural

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Stained Glass

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Renaissance era Tomb

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Death assailing a youngman-Giovanni diPaolo, 1443

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Jacek Malczewski, Thanatos

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Medieval Illuninated manuscript

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Thou art slave to Fate, Chance, kings, and desperate men,
And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell

Mellery, Immortality and Death

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Medieval Triumph

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James Ensor

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Knight and Death, Theodor Baierl

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"The Silent Reaper," punch, 1858

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Renaissance Stone-carving

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From Harper's, 1861, depicting Jefferson Davis as the Reaper

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Gustave Dore

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Albrecht Durer, Knight, Death, and Devil

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He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
He bound them in his sheaves.

And poppies or charms can make us sleep as well
And better than thy stroke. Why swellst thou then?

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There is a Reaper whose name is Death,
And, with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,
And the flowers that grow between.
``Shall I have nought that is fair?'' saith he;
``Have nought but the bearded grain?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me,
I will give them all back again.''

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Felicien Rops, Lady Death

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19th Century

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19th Century

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Medieval

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"Death and the King," German

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Pierre Cecile Puvis, 1872

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Alfred Rethel, Death the Friend

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Gaetano Previati , Cronos

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"My Lord has need of these flowerets gay,''
The Reaper said, and smiled;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child."

One short sleep past, we wake eternally,
And death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die!
~John Donne

Martin- the Destroying angel

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Thomas Cooper Gotch, Death the Bride

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Evelyn DeMorgan, the Angel of Death

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Marianne Stokes, death and the maiden

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Carlos Schwabe, Death and the Grave Digger

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George Frederic Watts: Time, Death, and Judgement

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Simeon Solomon, Angel of Death

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Elihu Vedder , The Cup of Death

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Evelyn De Morgan, the Field of the Slain

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Carlos Schwabe, Day of the dead

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George Frederic Watts: Angel of Death

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Watts

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Daniel Chester French, the Angel of Death and the sculptor

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Watts, Angel of Death

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Antique Illustration

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Simeon Solomon

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Arnold Bocklin, Death Crowning Innocence

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The Totentanz, of "Dance of Death," became an extraordinarily popular motif during the plague era.
Mort Omnubus Unum- Death comes to all, be they beggar, proest, or King.

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