View Memento Mori with flowers and a skull recto, and A sunlit river landscape verso Reliquary in an ornamented alcove recto, and A cloudy landscape verso by British School 19 on artnet. Browse ...

Art World 7 Ways of Looking at the Memento Mori, Art History’s Spookiest—and Most Misunderstood—Genre. From skull emojis to Damien Hirst, the symbolism is everywhere.

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.The oil-on-panel paintings ...

Vincent van Gogh, "Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette" (c. 1886), oil on canvas, 12 7/10 x 9 2/5 inches (32.5 x 24 cm), held at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (image via Wikimedia Commons) ...

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 ...

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.

Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art, by John B. Ravenal, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/University of Washington Press, 68 pp.; $18.95, paper Most historical narratives of ...

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

Her Twitter name includes a skull and crossbones emoji. That is because since 2017, she has made it her mission to revive the practice of memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning “Remember your ...