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The image represents Mary Magdalen with her right hand to her chest and her left hand placed across her stomach, looking up in tears. In front of her, an open book resting on a skull that faces Mary Magdalen. The skull does not present any visible…

Tomb of Alice de la Pole, Duchess of Suffolk, at St. Mary's Church, Ewelme, Oxfordshire. The tomb has two sections: in the top section (left image) the duchess is lying fully dressed with a crown. In the bottom section (right image), the skeleton of…

"A string of beads is used as a memory aid in the recitation of the rosary, a multipart devotion to the Virgin. Here, the striking terminal bead announces the constant proximity of death by joining a skull to the pair of vivacious lovers. Such an…

"The eerie disembowelment on Elizabeth is said to depict the hollow where once their was a womb. On inspection we found a large spider had spun a web within adding more creepiness to the macabre skeleton. The idea of depicting the couple as cadavers…

"Bead from a chaplet or rosary; carved ivory with traces of red and black paint. Formed of four half-length figures placed back to back. One represents a young man in the costume of the time with cap turned up and jewelled and a fur-collared jacket…

"This is an ivory memento mori, depicting a male head, a female head, and a skull conjoined. First this bead appears to have be made in the first half of the 16th century, but is made in the 19th century in France, probably Paris." (Description from…

"At the bottom, the memento mori pendant consists of three conjoined heads, a bearded man with wreath, a skull with worms curling out from his mouth, also with wreath, and a young woman with plaited and knotted hair. Where their heads meet above…

The tomb has two tiers: On the upper tier, John Golafre is represented in flesh and bones and covered by armor. On the lower tier though, he is represented as a skeleton lying on a shroud.

Wall monument to the Rev Samuel Lowe and his wife Ann in All Saints Church at High Laver, Essex, England. In the lower part of the monument, an inscription reading "In cujus memoriam hoc marmor. Execut res Posuere". On both sides of the inscription,…

"A memento mori with wishes for the New Year; sheet printed from eleven blocks; in the centre is a woman with a skull instead of the face reflected in the mirror which she is holding; her mirror and dress are inscribed; further inscriptions are on…