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Images about Fear

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  • A terrified patient misunderstanding his doctor. Reproduction of a drawing after G.S. Dixon, 1924.
  • Six faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) joy, fear, pity, scorn, anger, and grief. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.
  • The resurrected Christ rises over terrified soldiers. Engraving after A. Dürer, 1512.
  • Durga slaying the Buffalo demon depicted on a stand and surmounted on a torana decorated with smaller figures of demon kings and Hindu gods. Transfer lithograph.
  • A boy angel appears as Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son. Lithograph by G. Sensi y Baldachi after A. del Sarto, 1529.
  • Victory of Indrajit. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • An unsympathetic doctor trying to get rid of a poor patient by frightening her. Wood engraving after J. Leech.
  • The resurrected Christ appears before terrified soldiers. Etching by B. Bartoccini after F. Overbeck, 1848.
  • Patients waiting to see the doctor, with figures representing their fears. Oil painting by Rosemary Carson, 1997.
  • A collage directed by downward arrows of a photograph of a man, a woman, a drawing of a bed and a condom interpersed with lettering relating to a couple who meet but then come into contact with AIDS; one of a series of posters representing an advertisement for a competition for posters of images against AIDS. Colour lithograph by Delphine Chanet.
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Works from the collections

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    La peur au XVIIIe siècle : discours, représentations, pratiques / études réunies et présentées par Jacques Berchtold et Michel Porret.

    | Date: 1994
    • Books

    Your child's fears / Ross Laboratories.

    | Date: 1965
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    • Online

    A dentist scaring a patient by telling how painful the drill he is going to use is. Reproduction of a drawing after A. Yeoman, 1940.

    Anton, 1912-1970. | Date: 1940 | Reference: 15535i
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    Face of a frightened soldier (left); the human face in an animal state of fear (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.

    Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690. | Date: [1713] | Reference: 33513i
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    People scrambling to get away from a person with leprosy. Watercolour by R. Cooper.

    Cooper, Richard Tennant, 1885-1957. | Reference: 24007i
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Related topics

Emotions
Physiognomy
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Face
Soldiers
Facial Expression
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Hindu mythology
Hindu goddesses
Love

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