Francisco Agüera Bustamante...La Portentosa vida de la muerte...1792

The earliest documented example of skeletal imagery in Mexico’s literary culture is thought to be the etchings accompanying the tragicomic protonovel, La Portentosa vida de la muerte, published in 1792 by Fray Joaquín Bolaños and illustrated by Francisco Agüera

Henri Michaux...Whistles in Temple... 1936

Georges Malkine (1898-1970)...illustration... Follow New Songs...1933

illustration for Chansons Nouvelles Suivi  by Marc Fernand 1933

Léonor Fini...1966

'' To my friend Jean-Bernard, Gilbert Lely The physical difference between man and woman, this fabulous luxury dazzles me.''

Léon Ferrari...'Hell'...digital print 1995/6

Drawing by Yaparí, Guaraní Aborigine + Set of Scales = 'Infierno', dibujo de Yaparí, aborigen guaraní + Balanza de dos platillos

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Wladd Muta...graphic works...3 circles below the horizon of the great Nataraj A*...2013

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Airton Cardim,...woodcuts ...2008/10

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Memento Mori... print & poem.. Christina Georgina Rossetti

Memento Mori

Poor the pleasure

Doled out by measure,

Sweet though it be, while brief

As falling of the leaf;

Poor is pleasure

By weight and measure.

Sweet the sorrow

Which ends to-morrow;

Sharp though it be and sore,

It ends for evermore:

Zest of sorrow,

What ends to-morrow.

Christina Georgina Rossetti

Books ...Magica De Spectris...Henning Grosse...1656

Ex Libris...T. F. Šimon... 1912

Marcus Behmer (1879-1955) ... Ver Sacrum... illustrations

Faust and Wagner 1903

Angel of Death

Death on a tree

illustrations for Ver Sacrum ("Sacred Spring" in Latin)  the official magazine of the Vienna Secession. Published from 1898 to 1903

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Doctor Johannes Faust ... books...Magia Naturalis et Innaturalis... 1849

the classic Magia naturalis et innaturalis was known to Johann W. von Goethe, who, like Gotthold Lessing, saw Faust's pursuit of knowledge as noble; in Goethe's great Faust the hero is redeemed.

FAUST