Memento Mori (late 15th century). Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In recent years, fascination with the genre has resurfaced, both within the museum and outside it.

I can't imagine a better series of images to open Huntington Beach Art Center's “Memento Mori: Skulls & Bones In Art” exhibit than Peter Zokosky's triptych Reveal.

Art Art’s Greatest Gift of Death Memento mori s remind us that death is inevitable, nothing afterward is assured, and what we do in that crack of light between oblivions is our responsibility.

However, the memento mori message lived on in other art forms, like the Dutch vanitas paintings of the 16th and 17th centuries. They included symbols of death (a skull, a snuffed candle) to ...

Such images were often grotesque – worms and vermin wriggling between skull’s teeth, rotting fruit – to startle viewers into recognizing their own mortality. Adriaen van Utrecht , Vanitas - Still Life ...

The newest exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts invites visitors to contemplate mortality through the eyes of young curators.

The phrase “Memento mori” (remember your death) became popular in medieval Christianity – death was especially poignant as the plague spread throughout Europe and Asia, killing millions ...

At Comme des Garcons, skulls were everywhere — their hollow eyes staring out from shirts and pants, even painted in chalk on the back of the models’ heads.

Ms. Wilkens credits memento mori with giving her the “spiritual tools” to grapple with her 9-year-old son’s serious health issues. “It has allowed me, not exactly to cope, but to surrender ...