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Kathleen Cohen, Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Dimitri Kirsanoff, Rapt, 1934

Kiss Of Death

Unknown, Death’s Head Hawk Moth, Will’s Cigarettes, Butterfly and Moth Cards, 1931

The Forest of Suicides - Canto XIII, line 11: Here the brute Harpies make their nest - Canto XIII, line 34: And straight the trunk exclaim’d, ‘Why pluck'st thou me?’ Gustave Dore’s Illustrations for “The Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri

By Dave Mc Kean - Faust

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Venus de Milo at the Louvre about to be evacuated at the beginning of the World War II (1939), photographed by Angèle Dequier.

Gustav Dore’s 19th-century illustration of Dante’s Paradise

Nuns by Therese Le Prat

ph.by ellen von unwerth.

The dead.

April 21st, 1928 Virginia Woolf, “A Writer’s Diary” (1918 - 1941)

Carole Lombard, 1933

Stanisław Masłowski, Moonrise, 1884