"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…
"Memento Mori; a nude woman holding a sundial, standing on a skull; with vast landscape behind." (Description from the British Museum, London, UK,https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1845-0809-455)
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,…
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.
"Carefully carved in a highly naturalistic style, this boxwood sculpture presents a moral lesson: while Vanity wears an elaborate dress and holds a mirror to her face, the figure of death is at her back, a reminder that all earthly things shall…
"In this stunning engraving, Dürer recast the theme of memento mori in a brilliantly unusual form. The woman in patrician dress is identified by her crown as a bride, but the person who embraces her from behind is a wild man. This traditional figure…
"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…
"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…