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Skull Bookshelves

James Hopkins brings memento mori art to your bookshelf: take a look at the Vanitas series, where he carefully arranged certain objects to create the illusion of skulls on bookshelves. Laughing Squid has the gallery: [...]

16th Century Memento Mori Rosary

From the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, here’s a 16th century memento mori rosary carved out of ivory featuring man on one side and skeleton on the other: Link [...]