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The top 10 corpses in art | Art and design. A detail from Hans Holbein's The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb. Photograph: Bridgeman Art Library. Click to enlarge Hans Holbein – The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1520-22) The novelist Dostoevsky said you could lose your faith looking at this painting. It contains no hint of Christian resurrection. Holbein has simply painted a dead body, showing its greenish skin and tautening sinews as decay sets in.

It is the most frightening of his images of death, which also include darkly comic prints of the dance of death and a huge, distorted skull that sears balefully across his painting The Ambassadors. Eduard Manet – The Dead Toreador (estimated 1864) Édouard Manet's The Dead Toreador. Manet shows a fallen toreador with apparently casual brushstrokes that refuse to sentimentalise mortality. Anonymous Italian – A Dead Soldier (17th century) A Dead Soldier. Andrea Mantegna – Lamentation over the Dead Christ (c.1490) Caravaggio – The Death of the Virgin (c.1605-6)

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