The great face off: 16 of the most wonderful portraits ever painted | Art | The Guardian
Böcklin pauses mid-brushstroke and listens. Behind him, a grinning skeleton leans close and draws a bow across a violin — but look: only one string remains, the lowest G, and Death plays it right at the painter’s ear. The others have fallen silent; his time is running short. Drawn from the medieval danse macabre and Holbein’s woodcuts, it is the artist confronting his own mortality at the easel — still painting, even as Death sets the tempo. Arnold Böcklin — Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, 1872. Oil on canvas, 75 x 61 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
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