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  2. Memento mori - Wikipedia

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    Memento mori (Latin for "remember (that you have) to die") [2] is an artistic or symbolic trope acting as a reminder of the inevitability of death. [2] The concept has its roots in the philosophers of classical antiquity and Christianity , and appeared in funerary art and architecture from the medieval period onwards.

  3. Skull and crossbones - Wikipedia

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    The design originated in the Late Middle Ages as a symbol of death and especially as a memento mori on tombstones. In modern contexts, it is generally used as a hazard symbol, usually in regard to poisonous substances, such as deadly chemicals. [1] It is also associated with piracy and software piracy, due to its historical use in some Jolly ...

  4. Et in Arcadia ego (Guercino) - Wikipedia

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    The iconography of the memento mori theme symbolised in art by the skull was rather popular in Rome and Venice since Renaissance times. Elias L. Rivers suggested the phrase "Et in Arcadia ego" is derived from a line from Daphnis ' funeral in Virgil 's Fifth Eclogue Daphnis ego in silvis ("Daphnis was I amid the woods"), and that it referred to ...

  5. Human skull symbolism - Wikipedia

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    St. Jerome, by Lucas van Leyden. Skull symbolism is the attachment of symbolic meaning to the human skull.The most common symbolic use of the skull is as a representation of death.

  6. Tomorrow Is Nearly Yesterday and Everyday Is Stupid - Wikipedia

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    The promotional singles were a re-release of "Memento Mori" and the release of "Crywank Are Posers" which released on 4 September 2013 and 2 November 2013, they were subsequently posted on Clayton's Tumblr blog. "Crywank Are Posers" was released as an apology for the album being delayed. [6] [7] [better source needed] [8]

  7. Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette - Wikipedia

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    The work measures 32 by 24.5 centimetres (12.6 in × 9.6 in). It is considered a vanitas or memento mori, at a time when van Gogh himself was in poor health. It may be influenced by works of Hercules Segers, a 17th-century Dutch artist, or of Félicien Rops, a Belgian contemporary of van Gogh. Although often interpreted as a criticism of ...

  8. Category:Memento mori - Wikipedia

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  9. Vanitas - Wikipedia

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    Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda. Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.

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