Mortality was on everyone’s mind in bygone centuries, but these useful reminders of the inevitability of death remain a popular artistic theme today. Mortality was on everyone’s mind in bygone ...
Centuries before #YOLO (You only live once), artists frequently evoked the transience of life for viewers, directing us to consider our own mortality. In doing so, they used memento mori: art ...
The Ivory Mirror will bring together nearly seventy exquisite artworks, many of which have never been seen before in North America, from European and American institutions—among them the Victoria and ...
An exhibition staged by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art examining how mortality played into Renaissance culture, has been described as “unique in its focus” by artnet.com’s Menachem Wecker. “The ...
Finials of a Chaplet (France or southern Netherlands, 1530 with mid-19th-century insertion) (ca. 1850–1860), elephant ivory (courtesy Victoria and Albert Museum, London) BRUNSWICK, Maine — The first ...
Three days into 2025, singer Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast posted a carousel of soft paintings of women looking seemingly sad. Viewers were immersed in a world of folded heads, empty stares, ...
Memento Mori. Remember that you must die. A phrase rooted in classical Stoic philosophy and adopted into the religious symbolism of Western Christianity, it has functioned in the art world to signify ...
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