Memento mori
A memento mori (latin: remember that you must die) is a object or pictorial symbol associated with death. Such symbols include skulls, bones, coffins, urns, angel of death, upside-down torches,
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Death representations
Being definitely unknowable, is Death consequently beyond representation ?
Death as the great enigma raises the issue of its representation, a challenge tackled by the disciplines of art,history, philosophy, and literature.
Death and the maiden
In many dances of Death already figured a representation of Death with a fine lady or with a beautiful virgin. The image of a young woman was also found in
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Triumph of Death
In Italy besides the traditional dance of death we find spectacular representations of death as the all-conqueror in the so-called “Trionfo della Morte”. The earliest traces of this conception may
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Dance of Death
Aka: Danse macabre, Danza macabra, Todtentanz The French term Danse Macabre may derive from the Latin Chorea Machabæorum, literally “dance of the Maccabees.” A favorite medieval theme, connected with the
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The fashion of death
Death helps sell, the fascination for death added to the usual censure by media on the subject make it a fine advertising incentive. In 1992, nearly one million packs of
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History of death and art
A major tradition in the study of death across cultures and time has been to demarcate distinctive death time periods in Western history. The most notable illustration is Philippe Ariès’s
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