Trick picture showing a woman wearing a Gibson-girl up-do sitting at a dressing table, looking in her mirror. The whole image forms that of a skull. All is Vanity, Charles Allan Gilbert, 1892
Happy #MementoMoriMonday, which falls on #LookalikeDay.
A tête de mort, "All is Vanity," by Charles Allan Gilbert, 1892.
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St John the Baptist Church, Middleton, Warwickshire. #monumentMonday #memorialMonday #mementomoriMonday
Vanitas painting by Adriaen van Nieulandt, 1636, showing a skull with a fly perched on the head, with a bone lying next to it. There are withering flowers in a vase, a few petals have already fallen. There are coins, a shell, and pearls, a stack of books, and a butterfly.
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Vanitas, Adriaen van Nieulandt, 1636. Dying flowers, a fly on a skull, books and treasures--with emphatic mottos: "Equid sunt aliud, quam breve gaudium?": What are these other than a brief joy? "mourir pour vivre": Die to live
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Frans Hals Museum
#MementoMoriMonday from the C17th memorial to Johannes Colles Amiger at St Leonard's, Hatfield, Herefordshire.
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#MapMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#MilestoneMonday
#MountainMonday
#MarketMonday
#MaritimeMonday
#MonumentMonday
#MemorialMonday
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To Francis Poulton died 1642 and his wife Susan.
St Mary’s Church Twickenham.
Monday
#AllMetalMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#BlueMonday
#BrutalMonday / #MondaysAreBrutal
#ClassicLitMonday
#JadeMonday
#MagentaMonday
#MallardMonday
#MammalMonday
#ManholeCoverMonday
#ManuscriptMonday
#MapMonday
#MarbleMonday
#MaritimeMonday
#MarketMonday
#MedievalMonday
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A good selection of symbols for #mementomorimonday on this headstone at the Old Kirk in Temple in Midlothian
Black and beige bookplate for Otto Krenge showing an owl perched on a skull with a rising sun behind, framed in art nouveau lilies. The words "Mein Eigen!" are written in gothic script above the owl.
#MementoMoriMonday and #OwlishMonday mood. Mein eigen!
Bookplate for Otto Krenge, Atelier Stolle, Harzburg
Pratt Institute Libraries
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2/ More suggested hashtags to join on a Monday
#MistyMonday
#MapMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#MilestoneMonday
#MountainMonday
#MarketMonday
#MaritimeMonday
#MonumentMonday
#MemorialMonday
#MementoMoriMonday
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Monday
#AllMetalMonday
#BenchmarkMonday
#BlueMonday
#BrutalMonday / #MondaysAreBrutal
#ClassicLitMonday
#JadeMonday
#MagentaMonday
#MallardMonday
#MammalMonday
#ManholeCoverMonday
#ManuscriptMonday
#MapMonday
#MarbleMonday
#MaritimeMonday
#MarketMonday
#MedievalMonday
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The impressive tomb of Sir Robert Townshend (d.1556), the Chief Justice of the Council in the Marches of Wales, and his family, in St Laurence, Ludlow #memorialmonday #mementomorimonday
Painting of a blond woman in a black dress her hand gently holding a skull
Kate Diehn-Bitt
(1900-1978)
Genesen, zu neuem Leben erwacht
Recovered, awaken to new life
Schloss Moritzburg Halle
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Bookplate labeled Ex-Libris Theodore C. Lund, M.D. showing an owl perched on a pile of books, a human skull next to an inkwell or medicine bottle, and a huge spider web in the background.
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Dr. Theodore C. Lund, M.D.'s owl and skull bookplate. Eminently suitable for a physician.
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Library
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Chest tomb with winged skull in garland, set in a small graveyard surrounded by city streets
London's old graveyards are full of interest. For #MementoMoriMonday a surprising well preserved winged skull outside St Helen's Bishopsgate
A doctor in white gown and cap, holds a nude woman with long dark hair while a skeletal Death figure tries to grab her with its bony hands.
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Physician Struggling with Death for Life, Ivo Saliger
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A grinning skeleton greeting the new week with a cheery smile at St Mary's, Fotheringhay for #MementoMoriMonday
