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Christ in Limbo (detail) - Unknown follower of Hieronymous Bosch, c.1575.

 Rolled In The Midst Of Never-Ceasing Currents Flowing Without A Rest Forever.

Picture by BodiDarma.May 2024.

The Pupil, circa 1886. Illustration by Mario De Maria.

Jaguar with a feather headdress

Mural at Tetila Palace, Teotihuacán

Mexica culture

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The First Victim of Death; Abel's Death. Painted by Cyril Kutlík (1869-1900).

Félicien Rops, "A Dinner Of Atheists" (1882)

Archangel - Eliran Kantor.

Archangel Michael Slaying the Dragon - Martin Schongauer, c.1490.

"The dance of death" - illustration from a manuscript of the "totentanz" by Wilhelm Werner von Zimmern, Swabia, c. 1575. Collection: Stuttgart, Landesbibl., Cod. Donaueschingen 123, fol. 84v.

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It's International Dance Day. The Dance of Death is one of the oldest European memento mori motifs.

Dance of Death, Gerina ter Borch, c. 1643-1687

Death and the Plowman, from Holbein's Dance of Death, British Museum

The German Tango [the woman is wearing the crown of the Holy Roman Empire], Louis Raemaekers, c. 1916. Raemaekers had a bounty put on his head by the Kaiser for his anti-German political cartoons.

This 'charm' series of Will's cigarette cards are pretty amazing. A nice way to enjoy a smoke, for sure. NYPL Digital Collections