Ecce Homo by Paul Delvaux, 1949. Oil on canvas.

Here we see the classic illustration of the crucifixion of Christ but the characters have been substituted by skeletons. The canvas is shaped like a cross, which has its roots in this painting from the early sixteenth-century by Matthias Grunewald. Delvaux was influenced by Peter Paul Rubens’s La descente de croix for the placement of the skeletons. As is Delvaux’s signature, he set the whole scene in a modernized city street, suggesting that the skeletons are reenacting the scene.