Figure of Death (Memento Mori)
This is an outstanding example of a "memento mori," or "reminder of death": a gruesome skeleton clothed in tattered flesh holds a scroll bearing the Latin inscription, "I am what you will be. I was what you are. For every man is this so." That the artist--probably Hans Lein...
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27282
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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8
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| sourceUrl | https://purl.thewalters.org/art/61.97 |
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boxwood
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