The Dead Lovers, also known as The Rotting Pair, is a circa 1470 painting by a German Gothic artist, probably from Ulm or more generally from Swabia or the Upper Rhine region.

The painting was at first attributed to a young "Matthias Grünewald", but this attribution has been rejected since. The author is more likely to have been familiar with, or close to, the so-called Master of the Housebook.

The Dead Lovers depicts the young Cleveland couple as putrefying cadavers, infested by snakes, worms, a toad, and insects such as flies and dragonflies. In spite of this, the two "living dead" still appear quite robust, and still display signs of mutual affection, such as the bride's hand on the bridegroom's shoulder.

The Dead Lovers serves as a reminder of mortality.

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