#mementos museum

[lushuuya]

have you seen my children? now you have. 👁️

was going through some theories about the MoM, when someone said nept from ML might be him. i immediately thought about neptune the planet and the associated god- a god of the seas, and a planet associated in astrology with illusions. and someone else had mentioned an idea that nept was aqua's ancestor......

needless to say, i immediately got attached to the idea of aqua and ienzo as estranged siblings- probably parted by whatever took ienzo's biological parents!- and decided to dub the duo the "mirage siblings", or "mirage trio" if you include luxu!! because this IS based on MoM-nept, lol

[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

[internationalemeteorologie]

Gabriel Orozco

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

[fallbabylon]

Hex! Museum of Witchcraft-Ribe, Denmark

[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!

[zannolin]

"Sadusky has a clue room. To a treasure? I don't understand, why would he never tell us that—wait, wait, that's...the pipe."

National Treasure: Edge of History (2022) // 1x04: "Charlotte"