In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a Skeleton With a Burning Cigarette ...

Send a skeleton who knows how to play something nicer, please." This illustration is part of the Danse Macabre motif, ... Read: “Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages” ...

Archaeologists in Germany uncovered the remains of a medieval man with a “sophisticated” centuries-old iron prosthetic hand. The complete skeleton of a middle-aged man at the time of his death ...

“A Woman Divided Into Two, Representing Life and Death,” 1790-1820, is part of the exhibition “Death Is Not the End,” on view through Jan. 14 at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan.

The traditional European symbol of death is the skeleton with a scythe, toothy, faceless, but curiously fragile. Recently, a young, African art student at Uganda’s Makerere College set out to ...

The Garden of Death, Hugo Simberg, 1896 Jenni Nurminen / Finnish National Gallery / Ateneum Art Museum. In the late 19th century, artists were going goth. Works like Vincent van Gogh’s Head of a ...

Send a skeleton who knows how to play something nicer, please." This illustration is part of the Danse Macabre motif, ... Read: “Medieval Bodies: Life, Death and Art in the Middle Ages” ...

Swarthout is the researcher behind the popular art history-inspired social media account Weird Medieval Guys, which has attracted nearly 700,000 followers on X, formerly Twitter, since she began ...