The Death of Marcus Aurelius

The Death of Marcus Aurelius
Showing posts with label Memento Mori. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Memento Mori. Show all posts

Monday, July 20, 2026

Memento Mori 16


René Bull, Dust to Dust (1913) 

Illustration from Edward FitzGerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 

"Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and—sans End!" 



Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Friday, April 17, 2026

Monday, March 9, 2026

Thursday, October 23, 2025

Memento Mori 10


Anonymous Flemish, Mors ultima linea rerum (c. 1570) 

"Death makes scepters and hoes equal."

"Death, the final boundary of all things."

"You flourish in wealth, and boast of the society of the great and powerful; you rejoice in the beauty of the body and the honors which men pay to you. Consider yourself, that you are mortal, that you are earth, and into the earth you shall go."



Wednesday, October 1, 2025

Monday, September 8, 2025

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Memento Mori 8


Andrea Previtali, Memento Mori (c. 1502) 

Hic decor hec forma manet, hec lex omnibus unam.  

"This beauty endures only in this form, this law is the same for everyone." 



Friday, June 6, 2025

Memento Mori 7


Anonymous German, Memento Mori (c. 1750) 

Gedenck O Mensch Sich wer Du bist,  
Wie ungleich Dott und Lebendig ist, 

"Remember, O Man, Look who you are, 
How unequal Dead and Alive are." 



Tuesday, March 18, 2025

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Saturday, October 5, 2024

Memento Mori 4


Philips Gijsels, Memento Mori with a Skull and Crossbones (c. 1650) 


 

Friday, April 5, 2024

Memento Mori 1


Gravestone of James Bailie, St. Cuthbert's Churchyard, Edinburgh (1746) 



Wednesday, March 27, 2024