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Memento Mori Origins and Examples in Art There is a long tradition of memento mori artwork designed to remind the viewer of their mortality (Tate.org, 2018). The first known use of the expression memento mori in English is said to be in Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 1 (Laurie, 2014).
- Debbie Walter
death awareness to different manifestations of existential anxiety. We also aim to clearly show how different components of existential anx-iety are interrelated with each other. According to the Oxford English dictionary, memento mori is a Latin phrase that translates into “remem-ber that you die” (Wikipedia, 2020).
- David E. Reed, Rachel E. Williamson, Robert E. Wickham
- 2021
Jan 6, 2021 · The memento mori is a profoundly important aspect of religious reflection on the fleeting nature of life and the need to prepare spiritually for the inevitability of death. This essay considers two recent examples--the deaths of a world-renowned athletic celebrity and an obscure academic philosopher--and explores the contrasting images of death ...
- Alexander Riley
- atriley@bucknell.edu
- 2020
Nov 20, 2019 · The practice of memento mori– acting on the Latin phrase that translates to “remember we must die,” has the profound potential to wake us up and breathe more life into our lives.
- Debbie Walter
As one looks to Western and global traditions, memento mori does indeed appear extensively in art, here discussed in terms of symbol and picture: for example, in religious images, still life, portraiture, visual quotations, and pho- tography.
Jun 11, 2024 · In the Victorian era, the advent of photography brought in a new trend of memento mori in which the recently dead were posed for a posthumous portrait. It might sound weird, but was it healthy?...
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Feb 6, 2010 · The present practice-inspired visual arts analysis explores memento mori with compassion, insisting on the layers of unanticipated beauty and aesthetics that survive in the traces humans leave behind as evidence of their ephemeral existence.