#memento-mori

[holy-needle]

[artschoolglasses]

Memento Mori Finger Ring, black enamel and gold, 17th Century

From the London Museum

[toughtinkart]

you ever think about how canaan house is probably the most life gideon’s ever seen?

this has been sitting in my wips forever, so i decided it’d be better to post some version of it than let it languish in procreate forever.

edit: due to popular request, this piece is now available on my shop!

[letallthetrashraindown]

@judas-redeemed / Wilhelm Schulz, “All Soul’s Day” / Neil Hilborn, “Our Numbered Days” /@petfurniture / Hugo Simberg , “The Garden of Death” / Ramona Ausubel

[vivtanner]

In you I see a triumphant flame and a poor, immolated heart 🔥

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Jason Limon

[memories-of-ancients]

Carved ivory memento mori, Europe, 17th century

from The British Museum

[oncanvas]

A Memento Mori Skeleton, France, 1566

Limestone 55 ½ in. (141 cm) high

[laurieaconley]

100 Ghosts: 99/100.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[bizarreauhavre]

“Memento Mori” book with skull carved in the thickness of old books

[uncleclaudius]

One of the panels of a mosaic of a cheery skeleton uncovered in Turkey in 2016, probably dated to the Late Roman era Antioch. The word can be transliterated as EUPHROSYNOS (cheerful).

[figbian]

memento mori art from pompeii in particular is sooo…. your death has been immortalized & that is the primary thing we remember of you! forget remembering to die, die remembered as dead

[lesoldatmort]

| Tainted Soil |

Yearly piece for the series "Poppies of the Great War"

This time inspired by the effect of war on the working class and the soil itself.

[banefolk]

Antique Georgian mourning rings (1714-1830s).

[klassizismus]

Skull Wearing a Wreath of Flowers, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, circa. 1874