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Meditations on the macabre.

"Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home." — Francis Bacon
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Death in a Tree (1897)
#AngeloJank
#death #illustration #art
February 28, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Death and the Miser (c.17th century). #FransFrackenII (Flemish, 1581-1642). Oil on panel. Chrysler Museum of Art. 
#death #painting #art
February 26, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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A boy meets Death
by #HansAndersenBrendekilde (Danish, 1857--1942)
#death #painting #art
February 22, 2025 at 6:04 AM
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The Enforcer, Death and the Mothers
#LouisChalon, 1915.
#death #painting #art
February 17, 2025 at 5:42 AM
February 17, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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#C.Merkel - Hunger from ‘Bilder des Todes oder Todtentanz für alle Stände’, 1850
#engraved by #J.G.Flegel
#death #illustration #art
February 15, 2025 at 6:03 AM
February 13, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The Plague in Rome, Jules-Elie Delaunay (1828-1891).

#MementoMori #TempusFugit #Chthonic #Death #Macabre #Art #Paintings
February 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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"The Boars Melody Danse Macabre"

"Follow the Boars melody through the woods, like the wind through leaves and moss. Follow its melody and shed your fears in the silence, to embrace its chants with the sound of rhythmic hooves on this ground you call your home."

#DanseMacabre #death #illustration
February 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
February 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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The Specter of Death #KazimierzStabrowski, 1907
#death #painting #art
February 1, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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February 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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The Grim Reaper, c. 1910
#ReginaldBush (1869–1956)
#death #art #illustration
January 30, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Power of Death
#WilliamHolbrookBeard, American (Painesville, OH 1824 - 1900 New York, NY)
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum
#death #painting #art
January 31, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Le Cauchemar ( #TheNightmare ),
c.1860-1900
#ValèreBernard (1860-1936)
#dreams #art
January 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM
#MementoMori #TempusFugit #Chthonic #Death #Macabre #Mthology

Man costumed as Mictlāntēcutli.

From Wikipedia: Mictlāntēcutli meaning "Lord of Mictlan"), in Aztec mythology, is a god of the dead and the king of Mictlan (Chicunauhmictlan), the lowest and northernmost section of the underworld.
January 30, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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A Compleat History of Magick, Sorcery, and Witchcraft, 1715
#witch #witchcraft #illustration
January 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Salome, by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

#MementoMori #TempusFugit #Chthonic #Death #Macabre #Art
January 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Thanatos, by Jean Francois Bouron

#MementoMori #TempusFugit #Chthonic #Death #Macabre #Art
January 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM
"Death Playing the Violin," by Frans Francken the Younger.

#MementoMori #TempusFugit #Chthonic #Death #Macabre #Art #Paintings
January 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Happy birthday to the Master of the Macabre, Edgar Allan Poe. 🖤
Edgar Allan Poe's original grave site, Baltimore, Maryland.
#edgarallanpoe #macabre #fiction #art #romanticism
January 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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January 13, 2025 at 5:28 PM