Memento Mori Art Wallpaper

Each canvas print is 1 25 deep with a hard sealed finish back and pre installed hanging hardware so it s designed to hang tough and is super easy to display.

Memento mori art wallpaper. May 9 2020 i must also have a dark side if i am to be whole. Feel free to send us your own wallpaper and we will consider adding it to appropriate category. Another sub genre of memento mori art is called vanitas. Bring museum quality art into your home or office decor with a canvas print that will never warp or sag.

The spiritual practice of memento mori and the symbols and sayings associated with it were particularly popular in the medieval church. Download share and comment wallpapers you like. This became a fashion in the tombs of the wealthy in the fifteenth century and surviving examples still offer a stark reminder of the vanity of earthly riches. We ve got 51 great wallpaper images hand picked by our users.

See more ideas about skull art skull and bones skull. This artistic motif was particularly popular among dutch golden age artists of the 16th and 17th centuries the famous passage from chapter 1 of ecclesiastes on the fleeting and impermanent nature of our mortal life is cited as the inspiration for this morbid art. The most obvious places to look for memento mori meditations are in funeral art and architecture perhaps the most striking to contemporary minds is the transi or cadaver tomb a tomb that depicts the decayed corpse of the deceased. Memento mori or remember your death is a phrase that has been long associated with the practice of remembering the unpredictable and inevitable end of one s life.