#MementoMoriMonday

For #MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday, Allegory with an Owl, woodcut by Hans Wechtlin [c. 1480-1526] hvrd.art/o/259669 What is the second word of the top line of the inscription? Ich ??Den Tag. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

#MementoMoriMonday Death, happy in his work, surrounded by earthly vanities and symbols of death: coins, crowns, jewels, a Papal tiara, musical instruments, a crosier, a mitre, sword, and gravedigger's tools. Spanish or Mexican, 18th c. www.christies.com/en/lot/…. #TheVictorianBookoftheDead

Trying to keep spirits up while tinkering with my next book on this #MementoMoriMonday From Eene halve Eeuw, 1848-1898, Pierre Henri Ritter the Elder, 1898. British Library

It's #MementoMoriMonday! Here's a silver watch in the form of a human skull, c. 1660. The watch is inscribed with: vita fugitur (life is fleeting), aesterna respice (look down upon a fallen thing), caduca despice (look upon eternity), incertita hora (death/hour is uncertain)

It's #MementoMoriMonday! These metal cups from the late 19th century are decorated with skeletons, both adult and infant, representing the Danse Macabre, or the "Dance of Death." They remind drinkers of the shortness of life and the inevitability of death. Photo: Louvre, Paris,

It's #MementoMoriMonday! Here are male and female memento mori figurines used for spiritual contemplation from the 19th century. They were meant to remind the owner of the transience of life and material luxury. They are now part of the Wellcome Collection in London. Wedding cake toppers, anyone?

Maddalena penitente (Canova, 1790). #alphabetchallenge #weekKforKn #kneeling #mementomori #eck #mementomoriMonday #Sculpture #anzaa #photography #museum

This walking stick with skull pommel and emerald eyes once belonged to Charles Darwin. Yep, you read that right! I bet you didn't know Darwin was such a badass. It's now on display at the Wellcome Collection in London, and I think you'll agree it's pretty amazing. #MementoMoriMonday

St Michael and All Angels Church, Uffington, Lincolnshire. #memorialMonday #monumentMonday #mementomoriMonday

Memento mori ring moulded with a skeleton and coffin-shaped bezel containing another tiny skeleton, c.1727. #MementoMoriMonday

It's #MementoMoriMonday, so I thought I'd share this absolutely wild gravestone of Prudence Hammond who died in 1711. It's located in Watertown, Massachusetts - and it's certainly... memorable! Photo: Gravestones of New England More info: shorturl.at/ldIcG

It's #MementoMoriMonday! One side of this figurine features a human face crawling with worms and insects; the other side shows a skull - the flesh eaten away. Date unknown. This unusual object is from the Wellcome Collection in London.