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The Last Breath
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The Last Breath is one of the genre paintings depicting the lives of fishermen and their families for which Jozef Israëls was best known. In this scene, a woman is weeping over the body of her husband…

Contributor:

Jozef Israëls

Places:

The Hague, Netherlands

Date:

1872

Subjects:

Painting, Art, Family, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Decorative arts, Painting
Painting of interior scene with woman throwing herself over the pale body of a man while an older woman watches two children.
A Memento Mori
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A Memento Mori is one of three vanitas pictures in a series commissioned by Isaac de Matatia Aboab, a wealthy East India merchant, emphasizing the impermanence of material pleasures and the transitory…

Contributor:

Benjamin Senior Godines

Places:

Dutch Republic (Netherlands)

Date:

1681

Subjects:

Animals, Morality, Ecology, Death, Painting

Categories:

Painting
Painting with Hebrew and Portuguese text throughout, and depiction of man in graveyard accompanied by servant seeing decaying corpse being picked apart by crows.
Funeral Activities
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

Contributor:

Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723–1743

Subjects:

Life cycle, Mourning, Ritual & observance, Cemetery, Death

Categories:

Print & book culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Cemetery, Gravestone
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

First Half of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Mourning, Burial, Cemetery, Death, Gravestones & tombs, Inscriptions

Categories:

Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with crest on top, and twin columns of text below.
Sefer ha-ḥayim (The Book of Life)
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As it is written in the Zohar, Shelakh lekha: Women are privileged to merit the joy of the righteous who do the work of the Lord. They establish merit for their portion among the righteous. Men and…

Contributor:

Simon Frankfurt

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1703

Subjects:

Life cycle, Ethics, Mysticism, Burial, Death

Categories:

Science & philosophy, Ethics
Print of four scenes in quadrants with German headings on each: top left is sick man in bed, top right is sick man in bed surrounded by people with candles and books, bottom left is sick man lying on the floor, and bottom right is procession through city walls.