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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.
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Memento mori – Hell Christ in Majesty/Salvator Mundi – Vanity/Luxuria Virgin Mary – unknown subject [the missing panel] Coat of arms – Death. In both cases, only Vanity and Death appear together on the same side, while Hell and Christ, and Hell and Death, and even Memento mori and Coat of arms appear once on the same side, and once on ...
Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator.He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity.
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.
The key to solving JonBenét Ramsey's murder could lie in evidence found at the scene nearly 30 years ago.. When police searched the 6-year-old’s home in Boulder, Colo., on Dec. 26, 1996, they ...
"Memento Mori" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series The X-Files. It premiered on the Fox network on February 9, 1997 . It was directed by Rob Bowman , and written by series creator Chris Carter , Vince Gilligan , John Shiban and Frank Spotnitz .
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