Death and the Maiden (Baldung)

Painting by Hans Baldung

Death and the Maiden (Death and Lust)

Artist	Hans Baldung
Year	1517
Medium	tempera on limewood
Dimensions	30.3 cm × 14.7 cm (11.9 in × 5.8 in)
Location	Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel

Death and the Maiden or Death and Lust is a painting executed in 1517 by the German artist Hans Baldung (otherwise known as Hans Baldung Grien) which is in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

The work depicts a popular theme that Baldung himself visited several times, that of the early death of a young woman, often with erotic overtones. In this version Death has seized hold of a voluptuous young woman's hair and is pointing down to a tomb in mock benediction. Above his head are written the words "Hie must du yn" or "Here you must go". The distraught victim, fully aware of her fate, wrings her hands together, pleading for her life.

References

"Paintings for our time: Death and the Maiden". The Eclectic Light Company. 5 January 2020. Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
Luyt, Russell. Diversity in Gender and Visual Representation.

Death and mortality in art

Themes

Forms

Music	Dirge Funeral march Keening Requiem Threnody
Poetry	Death poem Elegy Elegiac Pastoral elegy Obituary poetry

Artwork

Architecture	Capuchin Crypt Catacombs of Paris Sedlec Ossuary Capuchin catacombs of palermo
Film	The Seventh Seal
Literature	Ars moriendi Bardo Thodol Book of Job Book of the Dead Left Ginza Hamlet's soliloquy The Masque of the Red Death
Music	Danse macabre Death and Transfiguration Der Tod und das Mädchen Erlkönig Totentanz
Painting	Et in Arcadia ego Guercino Poussin Death and Fire Death and Life Death and the Maiden Death and the Miser Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May La Calavera Catrina Plague Pyramid of Skulls Roman Widow Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette Sleep and His Half-Brother Death The Ambassadors The Garden of Death The Shadow of Death The Three Ages of Man and Death The Triumph of Death
Poetry	"And death shall have no dominion" "Because I could not stop for Death" "Erlkönig" "Do not go gentle into that good night"

v t e Hans Baldung
Paintings	The Trinity and Mystic Pietà (1512) Portrait of a Man (1514) Death and the Maiden (1517) Adam and Eve (c.1520) The Stoning of Saint Stephen (1522) Eve, the Serpent and Death (c. 1525–1530) Standing Saint (c. 1528–1530) Hercules and Antaeus (1531) Ambrosius Volmar Keller (1538) Madonna in the Vine Arbour (1541–1543) The Three Ages of Man and Death (1541–1544) The Seven Ages of Woman (1544)
Related	Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Hans Baldung

Paintings

The Trinity and Mystic Pietà (1512)
Portrait of a Man (1514)
Death and the Maiden (1517)
Adam and Eve (c.1520)
The Stoning of Saint Stephen (1522)
Eve, the Serpent and Death (c. 1525–1530)
Standing Saint (c. 1528–1530)
Hercules and Antaeus (1531)
Ambrosius Volmar Keller (1538)
Madonna in the Vine Arbour (1541–1543)
The Three Ages of Man and Death (1541–1544)
The Seven Ages of Woman (1544)

Art in the Protestant Reformation and Counter-Reformation

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