The Dance Macabre, or Dance of Death, is an idea that's been handed down for centuries. The image is of skeletons escorting people through death and to their final fate in the afterlife. The message is that no matter who...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/10/12/A-Brief-History-of-the-Danse-Macabre/Born in Netherlands in 1638, Frederik Ruysch studi... ...ioramas were a combination of science display and memento mori . Read more about Ruysch and his dioramas at Atlas...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/11/20/17th-Century-Dioramas-Made-from-Real-Human-Body-Parts/In the small town of Wolhusen, Switzerland, a funeral home chapel sits as it has since the 17th century. Its walls are decorated with a wraparound mural depicting the Dance of Death, in which corpse-like death figures co...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/01/20/Mortuary-Chapel-Embedded-with-Human-Skulls/A recurring theme in medieval art is “The Th... ...ving, in dress, size, and/or posture. It works as memento mori , a reminder that we all face death eventually. Se...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/02/The-Three-Living-and-the-Three-Dead/In Europe, churches that were established over a thousand years ago are still being used. It's all well and good to want to be buried in the church cemetery when your time comes, but there's only so much space. That's wh...
https://www.neatorama.com/2014/01/21/10-European-Churches-Adorned-With-Human-Bones/Photo: SantiMB/Flickr Eug...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/06/16/the-kiss-of-death/From the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art... ...an Museum of Art, here's a 16th century memento mori rosary carved out of ivory featuring ma...
https://www.neatorama.com/2011/12/23/16th-century-memento-mori-rosary/Is the man in this picture dead or alive? It’s not a silly question. In the early days of photography, dead bodies would be photographed for posterity. Often this would be the only picture ever taken of the person....
https://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/31/unsettling-old-photos-of-the-living-dead/Photo: Miles Pocket WatchesOobject, a neat visual... ...directory of gadgets, has an interesting list of Memento mori watches. Memento Mori , latin for "Remember that you will die,"...
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