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Anonymous Dutch, Memento Mori (c. 1530) 

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Hermione von Preuschen, Mors Imperator (1887) 

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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!" 

Surprise!

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Hendrick Goltzius, Quis Evadet? (1594) 

"Who will be spared?" 

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Ligier Richier, Tomb of René of Chalon (1547) 

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Tobias Stimmer, Old Man Taunted by Death (1580) 

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Hendrik Hondius, Memento Mori (1626) 

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Julie de Graag, Memento Mori (1916) 

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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."

I Fear the Day

Hans Wechtlin, Allegory with an Owl (c. 1500) 

"I Fear the Day." 

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Hans Leinberger, Figure of Death, Memento Mori (c. 1620) 

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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." 

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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." 

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Anonymous English, Memento Mori alarm clock (c. 1850) 

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Anonymous French, Pendant with a Monk and Death (17th century) 

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

 

Allegory of Life

Guido Cagnacci, Allegory of Life (c. 1650) 

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Valentin Wagner, Vanitas Allegory (1652) 

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