[random-brushstrokes]

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - Scène d'accouchement (ca. 1870)

[charnel-grounds]

Paula Rego (1935–2022), “Him”

from the ‘Pendle Witches’ series

etching & aquatint on wove paper, 1996

[diana-andraste]

Painting of a Dog, Francis Bacon, 1952

Oil on canvas

[charnel-grounds]

George Cruikshank (1792–1878), “Devil’s Cavern”

oil on canvas, 1854 — source

[deathandmysticism]

Witchcraft, magic and alchemy, 1931

[charnel-grounds]

Simo Hannula (1932–2016), “Mystical Watchers”

etching, 1972 — source

[charnel-grounds]

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945)

“From Many Wounds You Bleed, Oh Nation”

etching & aquatint on wove paper, 1896

[charnel-grounds]

— Martial Leiter

[ajetarts]

swinging by my neck from the family tree

@tankhall

[ducissatenebrarum]

Inspired by the "Triumph of Death" made by Pieter Bruegel the Elder circa 1562.

[mimiminimal]

Federico Castellón - The Siege of Memory, 1965. Etching and aquatint.

[diana-andraste]

Federico Castellón's illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's The Mask of the Red Death, 1968-69

The figure was tall and gaunt…

stop him and strip him, I say…

the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet…

and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

[deathandmysticism]

Goya, The Witches' Kitchen, 1798

[ducissatenebrarum]

Joseph Heintz Younger, Witchcraft scene, 1644

[ducissatenebrarum]

Hell. Jonas Suyderhoef. The Netherlands. 1686

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Zdzisław Beksiński

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

Triumph of Death (1877/Etching) - Marie Danse, after Pieter Brueghel