Works of art that involve the human skull:
- Damien Hirst, For the Love of God (2007)
- Maskull Lasserre, Incarnate (Three Degrees of Certainty II) front back view (2012)
- Robert Lazzarini, Skull (2000): (see also Hans Holbein the Younger's The Ambassadors)
- Wim Delvoye, 9 Muses Series: Erato (2001-2), Sex Rays: Lick 1 (2001)
- Lucas Samaras, Large Drawing #2 (1966)
- Jiechang Yang, Underground Flowers (1989-2009)
- Sherrie Levine, Skull (2001)
- Audrey Flack, Wheel of Fortune (1977-8)
- Jim Skull, Timothy Leary Skull (2010?)
- Fred Wilson, Friendly Natives (2000)
- Katharina Fritsch, skull (2006/2008)
- Robert Mapplethorpe, Self Portrait (1988)
- Pepe Espaliú, Lágrimas de Girasol (Tears of sunflowers) (date?)
- Gabriel Orozco, Black Kites (1997)
- Keiichi Tanaami, Superabundant Existence (2011)
- Olivier Heinry, untitled installation (2005)
- Tony Oursler, Still Lives and Skulls (1998)
- Bruno Peinado, Untitled, Vanity Flight Case (2005)
- Christopher Chiappa, McMiracles (2002)
- Nicola Bolla, Vanitas (Teschio) (2006): Swarovski crystals
- Matthew Day Jackson, The way we were (2010), Collection 1 (2009)
Old Masters:
- James Ensor, Skeletons Fighting Over a Pickled Herring (1891) (video)
- Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors (1533)
- Hans Baldung Grien, The Three Ages of Woman and Death (1509-10)
- Pieter Claesz, [vanitas] Still Life with a Skull and a Writing Quill (1628)
- Vincent Van Gogh, Skull With a Burning Cigarette (1885-6)
- Salvador Dali, In Voluptas Mors (1951)
- Barthel Beham, Study of Three Skulls (circa 1530)