#mortality
Memento Mori. Carved ivory rosary, early 16th century. Currently in the Metropolitan museum of art, New York.
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Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View (1991)
Wood, metal, plastic, ceramic, paper, textile, wire.
Cornelia Parker (b. 1956)
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Portrait of a Man, Possibly an Architect or Geographer (1597)
Oil on copper
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
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Lubecker Totentanz (c. 1463)
Mural in St Nicholas’ Church, Tallinn, Estonia
Bernt Notke (c. 1435 - c. 1509)
The church suffered severe bomb damage in 1942, and around 75% of the painting was destroyed. Below is the original in full.
P.S. This is my 100th post! Hooray for memento mori!
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Portrait of Bartolomaeus Spranger with an Allegory of the Death of his Wife Christina Muller (1600)
Engraving
Aegidius Sadeler II (c. 1570 - 1629)
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“The meaning of life is that it stops.” - Kafka
“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes—
He doubtless did his best—
How softly sinks that trembling sun
In Human Nature’s West—“
“Look back on Time, with kindly eyes—,” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson — ed. Thomas H. Johnson
Three facts about this whalebone walking stick with skull pommel:
1. It has green glass eyes.
2. It was owned by Charles Darwin.
3. Darwin called it his “morituri”: a type of memento mori (objects that remind their owners of the shortness of human life and the inevitability of death).
See this object for yourself in our #MedicineMan gallery.
aaaah, this is so cool! Darwin’s skull-topped walking stick. I am dying.
Charles Darwin died at age 73.
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Afterlife - Kathy Cavaliere
“Nothing could have prepared me for the death of my mother. The moment she took her last breath it felt like time stood still. I have encased my mother’s ashes in a hand blown hourglass which refuses to run. Afterlife exposes the physical remains of being. Symbolising the hour of our passing. Her spiritual journey continues.”
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