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Earthly Vanity and Divine Salvation by Hans Memling. This triptych contrasts earthly beauty and luxury with the prospect of death and hell.

Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember your mortality", "Remember you must die" or "Remember you will die". It refers to a genre of artworks that vary widely but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their mortality, an artistic theme dating back to antiquity.

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• Related: Carpe diem, Sic transit gloria mundi, Ubi sunt

Isaiah 22 Isaiah 22 www.usccb.org/bible/isaiah/22 - Web

Apologeticus Apologeticus www.tertullian.org/works/apologeticum.htm - Web

Memento mori and vanitas elements in the funerary ... Memento mori and vanitas elements in the funerary art at St. John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta www.danemunro.com/arsmoriendi.html - Web

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