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Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette
Vincent van Gogh
1884 · Van Gogh Museum
Flaming June
Frederic Leighton
1895 · Museo de Arte de Ponce
Allegory of Prudence
Titian
c. 1550 · National Gallery
The Tortoise Trainer
Osman Hamdi Bey
1906 · Pera Museum
The Blind Girl
John Everett Millais
1856 · Birmingham Museums Trust
The Wayfarer
Hieronymus Bosch
c. 1500 · Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Allegory of the Catholic Faith
Johannes Vermeer
1670–1672 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Life stages
Caspar David Friedrich
c. 1834 · Museum der bildenden Künste
Death and the Miser
Hieronymus Bosch
1480s–1500–1510 · National Gallery of Art
The Three Ages of Woman
Gustav Klimt
1905 · Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Roma
Cutting the Stone
Hieronymus Bosch
1501–1505 · Museo del Prado
Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle
Arnold Böcklin
1872 · Alte Nationalgalerie
Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Artemisia Gentileschi
1630s–1638 · Royal Collection
The Awakening Conscience
William Holman Hunt
1853 · Tate
Hope
George Frederic Watts
1886 · Tate

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SourcesWikidata (CC0), Wikimedia Commons, and the open-access programs of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Every fact links to its source.