Memento Mori: The Importance of Remembering Mortality

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Skulls and skeletons can be found in a lot of medieval and early modern art, today we’re going to explore why that might be happening…

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Images (from Wikimedia Commons, unless otherwise stated):

Portrait thought to be of Katherine Astley by an unknown artist (16th century). Said to be in the collection of Lord Hastings.

Dance of Death (replica of 15th century fresco). Held by the National Gallery of Slovenia.

Danse Macabre by Bernt Notke (1475-1499). Held by the Art Museum of Estonia.

Dance of Death, leaf from The Nuremberg Chronicle by Michael Wolgemut (1493). Held by the Met Museum.

“The Great Chain of Being” taken from Retorica Christiana, published by Diego Valdes (signed as F. Didacus in the bottom left) in 1579.

Portrait of a Man - Memento Mori by Andrea Previtali called Cordeliaghi (c.1502). Held by the Museo Poldi Pezzoli.

The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger (1533). Held by the National Gallery.

The Allegorical Portrait of Elizabeth I by an artist of the English School (c.1610). Held at Corsham Court, Wiltshire.

Portrait of Richard Harford of Bosbury from the circle of Hans Eworth. Held by the Weiss Gallery.

Portrait of Gawen Goodman of Ruthin from the British School (16th century). Held by the Museum of Wales.

'Memento mori' gold pendant (16th century. Held by the British Museum.

Torre Abbey Jewel (c.1540-1550). Held by the Victoria and Albert Museum.

This tiny enamelled gold pendant, dating from the 17th century, hinges open to reveal a miniature scene of the baptism of Christ. Held by the Wernher Foundation.

Renaissance Gimmel Ring with Memento Mori (1631). Held by the Met Museum.

Monument with effigy of John FitzAlan, 14th Earl of Arundel, in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel Castle, West Sussex, photographed by Lampman (2009).



Quoted texts:

Regarding Gawen Goodman: https://museum.wales/collections/onli...


Also consulted, were:

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/v...

https://www.lillicoco.com/blogs/love-...

Other relevant entries from The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Online.
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