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Renaissance Memento Mori Signet
British
ca. 1600
Skull Memento Mori Locket Ring
British
17th century
Renaissance Gimmel Ring with Memento Mori
German
dated 1631
Design for a Knife Handle with a Memento Mori
Johann Theodor de Bry
1580–1600
Design for a Knife Handle with a Memento Mori
Johann Theodor de Bry
1580–1600
"Memento Mori" Brooch with stand from the "Thanatos Series"
Bruce Metcalf
2001
Design for Knife Handles with the Temptation of Adam and Eve and a Memento Mori Scene
Johann Theodor de Bry
1580–1600
Memento Mori
Muriel Spark
1959
Everything #4
Adrian Piper
2004
Everything #4
Adrian Piper
2004
Everything #4
Adrian Piper
2004
Memento Mori: a skeleton in a niche
Master IAM of Zwolle
late 15th century
Memento (Soul II Soul)
Christian Marclay
2008
Anatomia memento mori
Claes Jansz. Visscher
1652
A Letter to Me and You (Memento Mori)
Anonymous, German, 19th century
ca. 1860
[Mourning Corsage with Portrait of Abraham Lincoln]
Unknown
April 1865
Coat of Arms with a Skull
Albrecht Dürer
1503
Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head
North French or South Netherlandish
ca. 1500–1525
"Memento Mori"
Simon Costin
1986
Takigawa of the Ogiya Pleasure House
Utagawa Toyokuni I
early 19th century
Coney Island, NY
Sid Grossman
1947–48
"Male Jaw-Piece"
Alexander McQueen
spring/summer 1998
Autocide
Nate Lowman
2012
Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to Left, possibly the Portrait of the Poet Giorgio Anselmi (ca. 1459-1528), with Faint Sketch of a Skull-like Head
Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola)
1503–40
Mourning Ring
American
1733
The Funeral of Tory-principle: Dutifully Dedicated to the Holy Alliance
John Doyle
April 1827
Adoration of the Lobster
Cecily Brown
2023–24
Egyptian Sculpture and Motifs (from Scrapbook)
John Singer Sargent
ca. 1878
Rosary
German
ca. 1500–1525
Return to Sender
John Waters
2003
"Incubus"
Simon Costin
1987
Adam and Eve, from a series of scenes of the Genesis with scrolling motifs and grotesque figures on black grounds
Etienne Delaune
before 1573
Adam and Eve, from a series of scenes of the Genesis with scrolling motifs and grotesque figures on black grounds
Etienne Delaune
before 1573
Ring
American
1757
Self-Portrait
Salvator Rosa
ca. 1647
Solitary Female Huia
Fiona Pardington
2006 (reprinted 2024)
Vanitas Still Life
Herman Henstenburgh
n.d.
Saint Jerome Praying in a Landscape.
Niccolò dell' Abate
1550–60
Base for a Statuette
North French or South Netherlandish
early 16th century
Portrait of a Carthusian
Petrus Christus
1446