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Twelve Days of (mortality history) Christmas: Day Five - Detail from a blank funeral invitation - a proud, crowned and wreathed death is joined by time - the pair sit on coffins. Death holds a dart and hourglass. 1770-79 (@britishmuseum) #mementomori #MementoMoriMonday
Skulls, bones, flags with skulls & bones. There is a lot happening in this ornamental print by Giovanni Antonio da Brescia. The print encourages people to reflect on their end and avoid sin. c.1490-1507. Close up on the left and full on the right 💀 (@britishmuseum) #mementomori
'Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings in grave-making'
Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1:17 #ShakespeareSunday
(Fresco by Felix Hölzl, Straubing, 1763)
And a collection of death-themed items from @rijksmuseum - Burial from The Seven Works of Mercy (Master of Alkmaar, 1504); a weeper from the tomb of Isabella of Bourbon; Memorial tablet, (Master of the Spes Nostra, c. 1500) and a miniature skull. #MuseumsUnlocked
A large group of Dutch whalers at the edge of pack ice - Johannis de Blaauw, 1762 (@schpvrtmsm) #MuseumsUnlocked
@profdanhicks Mock battle on the IJ on the occasion of Tsar Peter the Great's visit - Abraham Storck, 1697-1700 (@AmsterdamMuseum) #MuseumsUnlocked