Sentences with phrase «other memento mori»

Our second collaboration with the Met is an exhibition at the Cloisters focusing on the virtuoso art of miniature carving, which will feature 50 or so figurines, miniature altars, prayer nuts, monstrances, skulls and other memento mori boxwood pendants (22 February — 21 May).

Not exact matches

While an admonition such as «Remember, O man, that thou art dust, and to dust thou shalt return» sounds like the solemn - admonitory, the point of the memento mori is to contemplate worldly death in order to fit oneself for otherworldly life in communion with other eternal souls, not somehow to find comfort in the commonality of our mortal lot.

Yet like the others Treves also acknowledges the reflection of his darker self in this living memento mori: Merrick is «visibly worse than in «86 -» 87.

Whether through painting, drawing, sculpture, video, or other media, contemporary artists have drawn on the centuries - old tradition to create works of conceptual vivacity, beauty, and emotional poignancy in the present time.Structured according to the classical categories of the still - life tradition — Flora, Food, House and Home, Fauna, and Death, each chapter in Michael Petry's book explores how the timeless symbolic resonance of the memento mori, has been rediscovered for a new millennium.

The piece incorporates, among other things, fur, fabric, a lampshade, a hammer, a Jesus figurine, and holy water, and brought to mind memento mori and the Mexican and Chicano altars for Día de los Muertos.

Perhaps a memento mori or some other existential struggle with aging and mortality?