View of a Skull, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1489
Saint Francis in Meditation, Caravaggio, 1605
Skull, Albrecht Dürer, 1521
La Calavera Catrina (Dapper Skeleton or Elegant Skull), José Guadalupe Posada, 1910-1913.
Much memento mori art is associated with the Mexican festival Day of the Dead, including skull-shaped candies and bread loaves adorned with bread “bones.”
Self-portrait With Death Playing the Fiddle, Arnold Böcklin, 1872
Engraving by M.C. Escher, 1919
Untitled-Death Outside the Head-Paul Eluard, Salvador Dalí, 1933
Head with Broken Pot, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1942
Sin esperanza (Without Hope), Frida Kahlo, 1945
Detail of Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central, Diego Rivera, 1946-1947
Three Study Portraits of Lucian Freud, by Francis Bacon
Artwork by Sergio Toppi
Drawings by Edward Gorey
Knowledge of the Past Is the Key to the Future: Some Afterthoughts on Discovery, Robert Colescott, 1986
Riding with Death, Jean-Michel Basquiat, 1988
Black Kites, Gabriel Orozco, 1997
For the Love of God, Damien Hirst, 1997
The Orientalist, Walton Ford, 1999
Painting by Pascal Vilcollet
The Genealogy of Style 
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