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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.
The use of mourning rings dates back to at least the 14th century, [1] although it is only in the 17th century that they clearly separated from more general memento mori rings. [2] By the mid-18th century jewelers had started to advertise the speed with which such rings could be made. [4]
Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was born at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome. [8] Her mother, Giuseppa Maria de Dominicis, [9] was a Neapolitan aristocrat. [10] Her father, Celestino Schiaparelli, a Piedmontese, was an accomplished scholar with multiple areas of interest. [11]
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The Bulgari Tubogas, a house signature since 1948, takes center stage once more in a new fall collection.
Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
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 ...
The theme of the "Three Living and the Three Dead" is a relatively common form of memento mori in mediaeval art. [1] The earliest manuscript evidence for the story comes from late 13th-century France. [2] A Dit des trois morts et des trois vifs by Baudoin de Condé has been traced back to 1280.