Images of the skull in art

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The skull of Georges Braque (Georges Braque):

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Brice Marden (Brice Marden) Skull with Thought, 1993-95

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Skull from Luis Fernández:

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Skull from Luis Fernández.:

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Skull from Luis Fernández.:

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You (mnozh.chislo) sometime this sepulchral theme end?
Shakespeares ...

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dedulya37, but here you can see the fun.
For example:

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David Bailly (Leiden 1584 - Leiden 1657), Self-Portrait with Vanitas Symbols, 1651

Pay attention to date.
The artist has 67 years, and he portrays himself on the "Self-Portrait with symbols of the futility of" young, but derzhazhim in his left hand in a self-portrait of the artist's age at the time of writing the work.
I wonder? Me, yes.

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You (mnozh.chislo) sometime this sepulchral theme end? Shakespeare

The situation got out of control. Skulls were tenacious.
For example,

in the walls of the ancient monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai, founded during the Byzantine Emperor Justinian, survived the so-called "room of skulls, which holds the remains of deceased in the world other fellow monks. For centuries, the small cemetery is not expanded, so the deceased monk was buried only when excavated and transferred to a room ashes of its predecessor. So did many other monasteries, located in Egypt or the Middle East. In them, in the twilight of cells can be seen the remains of their former inhabitants. They are in cabinets on the shelves in accordance with strict rules: stand - skull, separately - skeletons. In the monastery of St. Catherine entry in the "Room of skulls" protects the skeleton of St. Stephen. He sits, wearing a black robe. On the cervical vertebrae hangs a large cross. His skull, covered with a hood, leaning to one side. It seems as if he was asleep at his post. In fact, during his lifetime, and it is known that St. Stephen died about 580, he carried the same watch, but guarding the staircase leading from the monastery on top of Sinai, called "Gates of Heaven».

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You (mnozh.chislo) sometime this sepulchral theme end? Shakespeares ...

Do not we have this topic started, and we did not finish it.



Hypochondriasis

Plescheev AN

Scary to think that such a
End destined everyday drama;
What are you going to narrow, dark hole
To lie motionless and mute;

That the worms will whet
Your leaving the body -
Sharpening a heart that skillfully
And to hate and to love.

And after many, many years
Some idle dreamer
Find your skull ugly
And carry away in his office,

Instead of marble lay
He was on the sheets of paper dust
Or children, the occupant of the grave,
How zashalyat they scared.

1863

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The skull of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze:

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The skull of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze:

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Kazakh artists S. Evseev (1933 - 2008)


Pessimist (Self Portrait), 1965