The Skeletons, a group of emaciated men and women gathered around a skeleton laid on the ground and a figure of Death as a winged skeleton standing above it holding an open book
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: Marco Dente|Baccio Bandinelli
Artist bio: Italian, Ravenna, active by 1515–died 1527 Rome|Italian, Gaiole in Chianti 1493–1560 Florence
Artist role: Artist|Artist
Artist nationality: Italian|Italian
Date: 1515–27
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet (Trimmed): 11 5/16 × 17 1/4 in. (28.8 × 43.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession year: 1917
Tags: Skeletons|Men|Women|Death