Posts tagged "Memento mori"

March 24, 2010
(via unnaturalist) Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas This is part of the Wellcome Collection’s permanent Medicine Man display and should not be missed if you’re near Euston. 

(via unnaturalist)

Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas

This is part of the Wellcome Collection’s permanent Medicine Man display and should not be missed if you’re near Euston. 

. death london memento mori wellcome collection Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas
January 16, 2010
liquidnight: Memento mori, circa 1910 From Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America

liquidnight:

Memento mori, circa 1910

From Who We Were: A Snapshot History of America

. Memento mori bw deathbed photography lace
December 4, 2009
Fetal skeleton assemblage photographed by Joanna Ebenstein at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

Fetal skeleton assemblage photographed by Joanna Ebenstein at École des Beaux-Arts, Paris

. bones fetus skeletons joanna ebenstein photography memento mori morbid anatomy École des Beaux-Arts paris
November 30, 2009
vonchrupek: bewitching: cosmic-dust: dreamboatcourtney spiderlashes misswallflower It seems that the Steiner Family was particularly prolific in the artes moriendi. (Skull assemblage at a church ossuary in Hallstatt by Jonathan Wiles)

vonchrupek:

bewitching:

cosmic-dust:

dreamboatcourtney spiderlashes misswallflower

It seems that the Steiner Family was particularly prolific in the artes moriendi.

(Skull assemblage at a church ossuary in Hallstatt by Jonathan Wiles)

. Jonathan Wiles skulls photography steiner family memento mori artes moriendi
November 12, 2009
sasayaki: William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), All Souls’ Day (1859) … and now for a short while in beautiful Technicolor®!

sasayaki:

William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), All Souls’ Day (1859)

… and now for a short while in beautiful Technicolor®!

. William Adolphe Bouguereau graveyard grave tomb memento mori mourning All Souls’ Day
September 1, 2009
cavesoflilith: Rom 5 Refers to Romans 5, specifically to Romans 5:12Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, because all have sinnedPer Peccatum Mors, “is death through sin”In Omnes Homines Mors Pertransiit is “death spread amongst all men” Please, All Saints, don’t use this as a t-shirt design. PLEASE!

cavesoflilith:

Rom 5 Refers to Romans 5, specifically to Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to everyone, because all have sinned

Per Peccatum Mors, “is death through sin”
In Omnes Homines Mors Pertransiit is “death spread amongst all men”

Please, All Saints, don’t use this as a t-shirt design. PLEASE!

. skeleton illustration all saints memento mori