We invite you to explore the darker side of our collection through hallmarks of how we mourn, celebrate, deny, and ultimately accept death. Memento Mori: The Art of Death and Mourning traces the thematic iconographies of death, dying, and mourning. In his Meditationsessentially his own private journal Marcus Aurelius wrote that You could leave life. memento mori, in art and spirituality, a symbolic trope or meditative practice that serves as a reminder of mortality and the transitory nature of earthly pleasures. With the dawn of Christianity in the West, the symbol of death and the afterlife became dominant in art, finding its heyday in the darkest and most demoralized parts of our past during the period of the Black Death. Memento Mori (Latin: remember you will die)is the ancient practice of reflection on our mortality that goes back to Socrates, who said that the proper practice of philosophy is about nothing else but dying and being dead. No matter how good of a life you lead, nor how famous or rich you become, death always awaits.
Should that seem morbid and frightening This perspective is neither ignorant nor morbid. By reflecting on our own deaths, we can embrace this essential truth: We exist only to know, love and serve our God, and to make Him known in the world, so as to one day be happy with Him in heaven. Memento mori, “remember that you will die,” expresses the inevitability of death. Memento mori encourages spiritual and moral instruction. This conceptdrawn from Latin, remember that you have to dieimbued all types of art, cemetery symbolism.
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