Memento Mori

2 Jul 2019 by Tim MillerImages

Pieter Claesz - Vanitas Still Life - 1660

Vladimir Tatlin - A Skull on the Open Book - 1950

van Leyden - Young Man with Skull - 1519

Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt) Adam and Eve, 1543 German, Engraving; Sheet: 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (8 x 5.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985 (1986.1180.15) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/415170

Sebald Beham (German, Nuremberg 1500–1550 Frankfurt) Adam and Eve, 1543 German, Engraving; Sheet: 3 1/8 x 2 1/8 in. (8 x 5.4 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Grace M. Pugh, 1985 (1986.1180.15) http://www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/415170

Van Gogh - Skull with Burning Cigarette - 1885

Picasso - Skull, urchins and lamp on a table - 1943

Cezanne - Still Life with Skull - 1898

Mabuse - Skull - 1517

Picasso - Composition with Skull - 1908

Beham - Lady and Death - 1542

Caravaggio - St. Jerome Writing - (1606)

Caravaggio - St. Francis in Prayer - 1604

Claesz - Still Life with a Burning Candle - 1627

Guercino - Shepherds of Arcady (Et in Arcadia Ego) - 1622

Leyster - The Last Drop (Merry Cavaliers) - 1629

Pieter Cleasz - Still Life Skull & Writing Quill - 1628

Albrecht Durer - St. Jerome - 1521

Hals - Young Man with Skull - 1628

Jan van Hemessen - St. Jerome - c. 1500

art, art history, Death, Dying, Memento Mori, Middle Ages, Mourning, Renaissance, Skull

Tim Miller