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Title

Carting the Dead, Kerch, Crimea

Artist

Dmitri Baltermants

Physical Description

A rolling cart of the dead being wheeled away, with people surrounding.

Artist Life Dates

1912-1990

Object Creation Date

January 1942; printed 2003

Accession Number

2014/2.265

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print on paper

relevance

rank 10.61908

Primary Keywords

deaths

graves

people by activity

Title

Death of Chatterton, from "Pictures of Chocolate"

Artist

Vik Muniz

Physical Description

Photograph of a drawing executed using chocolate syrup on a piece of white plexi-glass.

Artist Life Dates

born 1961

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

2000

Accession Number

2006/1.153

Medium and Support

Cibachrome mounted on aluminum on paper

relevance

rank 10.39061

Primary Keywords

appropriation

boys

deaths

photography

romantic

suicides

Title

Descent from the Cross

Artist

Ugo da Carpi

Physical Description

This print depicts the body of a man being lowered from a cross. Two men lean over the top of the cross to remove the nails from the dead man's hands and pass his body down to two other men standing on ladders. Three women and a man lay on the ground in mourning at the foot of the cross.

Artist Life Dates

ca. 1440 - after 1525

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1440-1535

Accession Number

1960/1.176

Medium and Support

chiaroscuro woodcut on laid paper

relevance

rank 10.28002

Primary Keywords

chiaroscuro woodcuts

crosses (objects)

crucifixions

deaths

ladders

Title

Tobit Burying the Dead

Artist

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist Life Dates

1609-1664

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1647-1651

Accession Number

1977/2.6

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 10.28002

Primary Keywords

bending

deaths

figures (representations)

rocks

standing

steps

Title

The Death of Leander

Artist

Giulio Carpioni

Physical Description

In dark turbulent waters under a stormy sky four nude sea nymphs support the body of a long-haired man between them on a white shroud. The face of a man with kelp in his hair appears between two of the nymphs. On the right a bearded man with a trident in his right hand rides in a chariot fashioned from a seashell and pulled by two fished-tailed horses or hippocampi. Just visible in the distance behind the back of the rightmost nymph, a lofty tower rises above the waves.

Artist Life Dates

1613-1678

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1655

Accession Number

1984/1.290

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 10.06575

Primary Keywords

chariots (ancient vehicles)

deaths

mermaids

nymphs

oil paintings

storms

Title

Democritus in Meditation

Artist

Salvator Rosa

Physical Description

A bearded man sits in a cemetery upon a stone block and leans on a sarcophagus with his head in his hand. A book sits in his lap. Sarcophagi, obelisks, and funerary urns surround him. The bones and body parts of humans and animals along with a discarded helmet and books are strewn across the foreground.

Artist Life Dates

1615-1673

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1615-1673

Accession Number

1959/1.126

Medium and Support

etching with drypoint on laid paper

relevance

rank 9.96194

Primary Keywords

cemeteries

deaths

etching (printing process)

philosophers

skeletons

skulls (skeleton components)

Title

The Labors of Hercules: The River-god Achelous (one of the set of 13 prints)

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1550

Accession Number

1956/1.67

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 9.86024

Primary Keywords

alligators

death

deaths

fighting

gods

hercules

nudes

rivers

staff

standing

trees

Title

The Lord's Prayer, sheet 9 - But Deliver Us from Evil (Das Vaterunser - Sondern erlöse uns von dem Übel)

Artist

Max Pechstein

Physical Description

At viewer's left, two reclining figures lie side-by-side in a bed, covered by a sheet up to their chins. At the foot of the bed at the viewer's right, a man sits with his eyes closed and his hands on his head. To the viewer's left, in the foreground , a woman sits, crying, wiping her eyes with the back of her left hand.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1921

Accession Number

1948/1.431

Medium and Support

woodcut with hand-coloring on paper

relevance

rank 9.66295

Primary Keywords

corpses

deaths

expressionism

expressionist

figures

grief

portfolios (groups of works)

prayers

reclining

spirituality

woodcuts

Title

The two elders stoned by the people (one from the set of four prints, The Story

Artist

Heinrich Aldegrever

Artist Life Dates

1502- circa 1561

Century

16th century

Object Creation Date

1555

Accession Number

1956/1.51

Medium and Support

engraving on paper

relevance

rank 9.47340

Primary Keywords

bound

crowd

crowds

death

deaths

interiors

lame

males

men

nudes

rocks

sculpture

stair

standing

stone

Title

Monument to the Lycée Chases

Artist

Christian Boltanski

Physical Description

Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.

Artist Life Dates

Born 1944

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1989

Accession Number

2006/1.154

Medium and Support

gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs

relevance

rank 9.20262

Primary Keywords

assemblages (sculpture)

deaths

gelatin silver prints

lamps (lighting device components)

light art

memory

mortality

vienna (inhabited place)

youth

Title

Untitled (March 5th) #2

Artist

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Physical Description

Two forty-watt light bulbs in simple porcelain light sockets hang together by their extension cords from a nail on the wall.

Artist Life Dates

1957-1996

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

1999/2.17

Medium and Support

40-watt light bulbs, extension cords, porcelain light sockets

relevance

rank 9.11576

Primary Keywords

abstraction

aids

conceptual

deaths

installations (sculpture)

lamps (lighting device components)

light art

lovers

memory

minimal

mortality

ready-mades

time

Title

Three Gold Rings, from Ringed Series

Artist

Todd Hoyer

Physical Description

A bulbous vessel with narrow mouth and base. The wood is burned and cracked and circled by three gold bands, two of which overlap.

burnt wood vessel with gold

Artist Life Dates

b. 1952

Century

late 20th century

Object Creation Date

1991

Accession Number

2002/2.145

Medium and Support

eucalyptus, imitation gold leaf

relevance

rank 8.90998

Primary Keywords

burning

deaths

families

memory

mortality

pyrography

vessels

wood (plant material)

woodworking

woodworking and woodworking processes and techniques