Thanatography

"A treatise on Death, its Symptoms, or the Changes it brings"

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Jan van de Velde II, Death with arrow and hourglass, 1633

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Orpheus in Hades (Detail), 1897 - Pierre Amédée Marcel-Béronneau

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Rachel Ann Stevenson BITTER SWEET Height 26 cm, Edition of 25 Glass dome, wood, entomology, resin

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“Confront a corpse at least once. The absolute absence of life is the most disturbing and challenging confrontation you will ever have.”

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Jeffrey Catherine Jones, The Dark Angel

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From: John Marshall “ANATOMY FOR ARTISTS” 436pp, Smith Elder, London, 1878

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“The End” from the 1909 book Some Modern Conjuring.

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“Ebrahim Khadem Bayat’s untitled, ethereal photo of a bird on a draped chair plays on ideas of presence and absence. (Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery, University of Maryland)”

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Ebrahim Khadem Bayat

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Wolves don’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep… or do they?

Unfinished illustration inspired by survivor’s guilt

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Alleged emission and re-absorption of ectoplasm by a medium, observed by German physician and psychiatrist Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing in 1913

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Beautiful work by Pablo Acero. 

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About Dying… Cathrine Ertmann’s Portraits from the Morgue

Cathrine Ertmann tells the story of the morgue with her photo series “About Dying.” This cold, clinical place where our rapidly decomposing corpses will lay like dead meat on a marble slab is where most of us will pass through on our journey into the earth. Ertmann, a Danish photographer,

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La Jeune Fille et la Mort painted by Marianne Stokes in 1900. via www.didoisux-wordpress-com.