#mementos museum

[xehabaldera]

And thus, fate was sealed,

Redraw of a comic by skrs-cats with little baby Terra, Aqua, and Ven! We haven't been able to get this idea out of our head.

...I spent two hours on this, which says something about me specifically...

[fallbabylon]

Model bisections of human head- Science Museum, London

[theancientwayoflife]

~ Rosary Bead. Pendant, memento mori from a chaplet or rosary.

Date: ca. 1520-1530

Medium: Carved elephant ivory with traces of red and black paint.

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[bad-moodboard]

Allegory of the Transience of Life,(c. 1480–90) Master IAM of Zwolle

[hiyutekivigil]

latvian national museum of art

[life-imitates-art-far-more]

William Harnett (1848-1892) "Memento Mori, 'To This Favour'" (1879) Oil on canvas Located in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States

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

Vanitas Still Life, Anoniem, 1650, Mauritshuis Museum

[ornithologyorthodoxy]

7/30/24

[fiercerthanyou]

Vincent van Gogh,

"Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette" (c. 1886),

Oil on canvas, 12 7/10 x 9 2/5 inches (32.5 x 24 cm),

Held at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

[diana-andraste]

Skeletons found in the Grotte des Enfants at Grimaldi. The double interment is sometimes advanced as evidence of a ritual in which a living being was sacrificed on the tomb of the dead. Larousse

Skeleton of a prehistoric woman dating from c. 3000 B.C. found buried in sand. The coffin in which is has now been placed is a reconstruction. British Museum

Illustrations from Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History, 1963

[xehabaldera]

χ this time,

i will never let you go. χ

— soriku week day one prompt:

※※ HOLLOW. ※※ —

[fallbabylon]

Hex! Museum of Witchcraft-Ribe, Denmark

[internationalemeteorologie]

Gabriel Orozco

Black Kites Perspective (front horizontal, right and left). 1997-08

[sictransitgloriamvndi]

[bitter69uk]

How melancholy to reflect that Die Deutsche Kinemathek – the wonderful cinema museum in Berlin – is closing its doors permanently on 31 October 2024. It was a sleek and deluxe minimalist venue devoted to the history of German cinema, with an entire floor devoted to the personal archives of ultimate German diva Marlene Dietrich (following her death in 1992, her family bestowed Dietrich’s stage and screen costumes, personal correspondence, photos, home movies, props, etc.). Luckily, I got to visit the museum several times over the years – and it always lulled me into a trance of pleasure! According to its website, they are relocating to a temporary venue (which will open to the public later in 2025) while a permanent home is being constructed and “collections such as the Photo Archive, Document Archive, the Personal Papers and Company Archives and parts of the Marlene Dietrich Archive will still be accessible at our temporary base.” So, it’s not as apocalyptic as I initially feared when I read the news. Anyway, the last time I visited Die Deutsche Kinemathek (in 2011) I snatched this photo of the death mask of German filmmaker F W Murnau (1888 – 1931), one of the great poets and visionaries of early cinema (perhaps most famous for eerie horror masterpiece Nosferatu (1922)). His friend Greta Garbo commissioned the “"totenmaske” after Murnau died in a car crash (Kenneth Anger writes about the accident in ghoulish detail in his book Hollywood Babylon; legend has it Murnau's 14-year-old Filipino houseboy was driving). Garbo reportedly kept the souvenir on her desk for years. How morbid!