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Who’s afraid of a few skeletons? We share bony objects and skeletal artworks from galleries, archives, libraries & museums #openGLAM 💀 #museumofskeletons by @musermeku.bsky.social ☠️ https://musermeku.org/museum-of-skeletons/

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Skeletons acting out phrases in James Thomson’s „The seasons“: fourteen scenes. Etching by H. J. Pidding, 1822

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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Etching: Skeletons shovel earth into a hearse

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 2d

greetings from Camposanto in Pisa - picture by @musermeku.bsky.social

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · 18d

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

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etching: a skeleton with an arrow and a cat hissing at it

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Sep 5

Sterne and Death: „And When Death Himself Knocked at My Door“, Thomas Patch, British

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: a man is visited by a skeleton with an hourglass

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Sep 3

The dance of death: the masquerade. Coloured aquatint after Thomas Rowlandson, 1816

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton in the middle of scared people in a ballroom

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 31

Plate for the ‘Atlas Anatomico’, Crisóstomo Alejandrino José Martínez y Sorli, Spanish, Plate ca. 1680–94; printed 1740

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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anatomical drawings of a male human body and the skeleton of a child

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 27

The Triumph of Death on Time, from „The Triumphs of Petrarch“, Georg Pencz, German

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: A skeleton with a sickle stands on dead bodies

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 26

Death Dragging an Old Man to His Tomb. Etched by Stefano della Bella, Italian, ca. 1648

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: a figure drags an old man, at his feet a skeleton with an hourglass

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 25

Death points an arrow at a female dancer. Aquatint by Joshua Gleadah, 1822

Wellcome Collection, Public Domain

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Drawing: a skeleton points an arrow at a female dancer

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 17

The dance of death: the sentinel. Etching by Daniel N. Chodowiecki, 1791

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton with hat an boots attacks a soldier

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 13

The dance of death. Etching by Richard Dagley, 1841.

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a skull with spider legs comes out of a fireplace towards an old man on a chair

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 12

The dance of death at Basel: death and the painter. Lithograph by G. Danzer after Hieronymus Hess

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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etching: a man in front of a painting, behind the canvas hides a skeleton

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 11

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.

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Etching: A human skeleton, seen from the front, resting the bones of his left forearm on a spade handle

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 6

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.

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Etching: A winged skeleton holding a drawing of a seated model, with human bones and skulls on the table and floor beside him.

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Aug 5

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.

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Engraving: Two figures: a kneeling human skeleton, with hands tied behind its back, and an écorché figure tied to a tree-trunk

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 23

Tables of the skeleton and muscles of the human body ... / Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, 1749

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 21

Satan, Sin and Death (Paradise Lost, Book II), Various artists/makers, May 1, 1788

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: a winged man, a naked woman and a skeleton with an arrow

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 17

The Triumph of Death from The Triumphs of Petrarch, Attributed to Dirck Volckertsz Coornhert, Netherlandish, ca. 1548–49

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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etching: a skeleton floating over a dead woman

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 12

Roundel with Vanitas, North Netherlandish, 1510–20

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Glass painting: a skeleton with a spear targeting a bishop

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 9

Book 2, Fable 20: Minos and Death (Minos et la Mort), from „Fables Nouvelles“, Various artists/makers, 1719

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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Etching: A skeleton with a cloak and a scythe stands between suffering people

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 3

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

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a hunting scene with dogs, s stag and a skeleton blowing a horn

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jul 1

Death and the Devil Surprising Two Women, Daniel Hopfer, German, ca. 1515

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jun 29

The Dance of Death, Anonymous, German, 16th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jun 25

Death, German, mid-17th century

Metropolitan Museum of Art | Public Domain

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The Museum of Skeletons @museumofskeletons.bsky.social · Jun 22

The dance of death: the old man. Woodcut after Hans Holbein the younger, 1581

Wellcome Collection | Public Domain

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