Barthel Bruyn the Younger, “Portrait of a Woman of the Slosgin Family of Cologne” (1557), oil on wood (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted) Rings are one of the most personal and ...

“Death and the Miser” is a 1561 painting from Hieronymus Bosch that depicts a classical deathbed scene, with the figure of death creeping into a room from a side-door to take the life of the ...

There is something ineffable about the fleeting transition from summer to winter, which makes Autumn irresistible to artists and poets revering it as the quintessential memento mori season. Sonnet 73: ...

It’s impossible to comprehend the sheer numbers lost to COVID-19. Japanese painter Yuri Shimojo’s series “Memento Mori,” which meditates on losing individuals and multitudes, helps.

"Reminiscent Object: paintings by William Michael Harnett, John Frederick Peto and John Haberle [exhibition] La Jolla Museum of Art, July 11 through September 19, 1965; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, ...

Parke Bernet Galleries Sale Catalog: No. 1202, 1950, lot 252. https://siris-artinventories.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=ariall&source=~!siartinventories&uri=full ...

While skulls and skeletons have assumed a scary, morbid and often occultish connection, the religious sister says that’s not the case if viewed with the right frame of mind. The book cover of ‘Memento ...