Visual Arts 11 — Art historical themes: Death

Support Materials and Handouts

Themes: Death
Handout: Themes: Death [pdf]
Death: Holbein v. Hirst
Presentation: Death: Holbein v. Hirst [ppt]

From Visual Arts 10

Unknown, The Death Mask of Tutankhamun, c. 1320 BC
Unknown, The Terracotta Army, 210-209 BC
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Beheading Holofernes, c. 1614-20

New artworks

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533
Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991