Young Women Contemplating a Skull  1607

by Alessandro Casolani

Contemplations on death was a popular theme in the visual arts of the counterreformation, and when such images showed a woman meditating on a skull, the subject was usually Mary Magdalen mourning her loose living at the thought of the judgment awaiting her in the afterlife. [br] [b]The woman in the picture[/b] It was, however, fashionable to have one’s portrait painted a...
Credit: 
Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark

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