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Memento Mori: Sickness and Death in European Art
Memento Mori: Sickness and Death in European Art
From plague warnings to vanitas symbols—how European artists confronted mortality, suffering, and the fragility of life
60 minutes
12 stops
A 12-stop journey through Medieval Art and European Paintings, beginning with mourning figures from a duke's tomb and concluding with still lifes that remind us of life's brevity. The tour traces how artists used symbols—skulls, broken glass, wilting flowers—to meditate on death and human vanity across five centuries.
Galleries: 305 → 544 → 537 → 800 → 810 → 827 → 964