The Museum of Skeletons
Who’s afraid of a few skeletons? We share bony objects and skeletal artworks from galleries, archives, libraries & museums #openGLAM
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by @musermeku.bsky.social
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- Pierre-Félix Wiesener: The Ride of a Warrior Ghost (ca. 1850) Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Richard Lewis Hillstrom Fund – Detail #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur #gothic
- Detail from: Pedro de Camprobin: El caballero y la muerte, 17. Jhd., Hospital de la Santa Caridad - Public Domain #museumofskeletons #mementomori #art #kunst #kultur
- Convento de San Vicente Ferrer, Plasencia Picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons
- Diego Bejarano (Sevilla, 18. Jhd.), Trampantojo Museo de Bellas Artes Sevilla Picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur
- Lucas Cranach: Christ Child Triumphant over Death and Sin (I530-40), detail Museo Lázaro Galdiano / Photo: @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #medievalart #medieval #kunst #kultur #mittelalter
- Cemitério dos Prazeres, Lisbon picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #kultur #kunst
- Taschenuhr in Form eines Totenschädels, Deutschland, Mitte 19. Jh. GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-...) #museumofskeletons #kunst #kultur #geschichte #art #culture
- Monastery of São Vicente de Fora, Lisbon pic by @musermeku.bsky.social #art #culture #kunst #kultur #mittelalter #medieval #museumofskeletons
- A man in armour is confronted by a ghost and a skeleton. Aquatint Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Ex Libris from Charles William Sherborn, 1878 Rijksmuseum | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- We bring you the spirit of #Halloween 365 days all year ☠️🎃👻 Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #spookyseason #kultur #kunst #art
- De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres, Various artists/makers, 1545 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur #halloween #spookyseason
- Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #spookyseason #halloween
- Skeletons acting out phrases in James Thomson’s „The seasons“: fourteen scenes. Etching by H. J. Pidding, 1822 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- greetings from Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur
- The Antiquary’s Last Will and Testament (The English Dance of Death, plate 2), Thomas Rowlandson, Published by Rudolph Ackermann, London, April 1 1814 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #kultur #art
- Sterne and Death: „And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door“, Thomas Patch, British Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson, 1816 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico’, Crisóstomo Alejandrino José Martínez y Sorli, Spanish, Plate ca. 1680–94; printed 1740 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The Triumph of Death on Time, from „The Triumphs of Petrarch“, Georg Pencz, German Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb. Etched by Stefano della Bella, Italian, ca. 1648 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Death points an arrow at a female dancer. Aquatint by Joshua Gleadah, 1822 Wellcome Collection, Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur
- The dance of death: the sentinel. Etching by Daniel N. Chodowiecki, 1791 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The dance of death. Etching by Richard Dagley, 1841. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur
- The dance of death at Basel: death and the painter. Lithograph by G. Danzer after Hieronymus Hess Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle, after Vesalius. Jean Le Rond d‘Alembert, engraving by Benard, late 18th century, after a woodcut, 1543. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #kultur #art
- A winged skeleton holding a drawing of a seated model, with human bones and skulls on the table and floor beside him. Etching by or after Jacques Gamelin, 1778/9. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk, Engraving by Inigo Barlow, ca. 1800. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #art #kunst #kultur #museum
- Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body ... / Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1749 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book II), Various artists/makers, May 1, 1788 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The Triumph of Death from The Triumphs of Petrarch, Attributed to Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Netherlandish, ca. 1548–49 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #medieval #medievalart #kunst #mittelalter #kultur
- Roundel with Vanitas, North Netherlandish, 1510–20 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur #mittelalter #medieval
- Book 2, Fable 20: Minos and Death (Minos et la Mort), from „Fables Nouvelles“, Various artists/makers, 1719 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Sickness Spears the Stag and Death Sounds His Horn (from The Hunt of the Frail Stag), South Netherlandish, ca. 1495–1510 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #kultur #art
- Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, Daniel Hopfer, German, ca. 1515 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The Dance of Death, Anonymous, German, 16th century Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #art #museum #kultur #kunst
- Death, German, mid-17th century Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The dance of death: the old man. Woodcut after Hans Holbein the younger, 1581 Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Vanitas Still Life in a Niche, Wallerant Vaillant, Dutch, 17th century Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kultur #kunst
- Skeletons (calaveras) riding bicycles, José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, ca. 1891 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kultur #kunst
- Tomb with Death Enthroned as a Sphinx, Louis Jean Desprez, French, ca. 1779–84 Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Two allegorical figures: a skeleton holding a scythe and a ball of fire stands next to a female figure. Lithograph. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- The dance of death: the monk. Woodcut by Hans Holbein the younger, 1497?-1543. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #kunst #art #kultur #mittelalter
- The dance of death: Death on horseback approaches the city. Woodcut after Alfred Rethel, 1848. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- Oberrheinischer Meister, Diptychon: Hieronymus Tscheckenbürlin und der Tod, 1487 Kunstmuseum Basel The painting is currently on view in the exhibition „Verso“. Read more about it here: musermeku.org/verso-kunstm... #museumofskeletons #art #culture #kunst #kultur #museum
- Death as king holding a scythe. Etching. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
- A doctor, straddled by a skeleton, holds a full purse in his hands; signifying that he lives well off others‘ deaths. Coloured lithograph by Godefroy Engelmann, 1788-1839. Wellcome Collection | Public Domain #museumofskeletons #museum #art #kunst #kultur
