Category: XIII Death
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Danse Macabre
A detail from an 18th-century oil painting depiction of the Dance of Death -
Memento Mori: Victorian Death Photos
“Photographs of loved ones taken after they died may seem morbid to modern sensibilities. But in Victorian England, they became a way of commemorating the dead and blunting the sharpness of grief.”
“On some occasions eyes would be painted on to the photograph after it was developed, which was meant to make the deceased more lifelike (left) while other times death was more obvious.”
From Taken from life: The unsettling art of death photography
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Mummy Brown
Egyptian mummy remains were used as a paint pigment in Victorian Europe. Ask a Mortician is an engaging, fact-filled YouTube channel. Highly recommended!
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XIII Death
Denise Poncher Before a Vision of Death, an image of the Medieval Christian view of death. (Courtesy of the Getty Museum)
From Daily Bruin, “Getty exhibit explores medieval imagery of death”
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XIII Death
The Hours of Jeanne d’Evreux. Paris, c.1324-28
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Triumph of Death. Psalter. Germany (S., Ausburg?), 1st half of the 16th century.
The Devil's Muse 