Concept

Death - Causes

Images

  • A man discovering the physicist Richmann after he has been killed by a bolt of lightning. Wood engraving by O. Jahyer and L. Hotelin after P. Valentin.
  • A doctor failing to hold death at bay from his patient; represented by a group of skeletal death figures one of whom is grabbing the doctor by the throat; the terrified patient looks on from the bed. Etching after S. Collings, ca. 1803.
  • A woman stands in the foreground on the far right, a man in a denim shirt on the far left with a woman and child, a man in a suit and a further woman behind them; an advertisement for AIDS prevention by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health Consumption in Spain. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

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