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“Memento Mori” book with skull carved in the thickness of old books

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where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop
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somebody please explain
Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.
…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle
There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.
In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:
It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.
honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here
You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!
jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!
HANS OH MY GOD
anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit
No, I think you’re missing the real deal here
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Belgian infantry helmet with visor, 1916, World War I
from The Royal Armouries Collection
A 30-year-old Roman man who was crushed by a stone block during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, in Pompeii (79 AD)
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The discovery of the Statue of Antinous (emperor Hadrian’s lover) at Delphi in 1894.
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A colossal bull’s head from Persepolis during the reign of Xerxes (486-465 BCE). The head weighs 10 tons and is two meters high. Persepolis was founded as a capitol city by the Achaemenid family, which unified the Persian empire in 519 BCE.
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The Rape of Proserpina is a large
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The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank
in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and
was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years
almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa
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"Then we will fight in the shade" - actual arrowheads from the Battle of Thermopylae and Greek shield

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Ivory carving for interior ornaments, or okimono, developed from the tradition of meticulous ivory carving for netsuke that flourished in particular around the mid-19th century, at the end of the Edo period.
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A nearly complete 1st century BCE carnyx found in 2004 at Tintignac, France (the one in the left picture, with a reconstruction in the right). Fashioned as a snarling boar, the carnyx was a war horn used by the Iron Age Celts between c. 200 BCE and c. 200 CE
The shaman of Bad Dürrenberg are the remains of a 25-35 year old woman, who was burried 8600 to 9000 year ago in Germany. Around her, were the remains of an extraordinary head-dress, made from the bones and teeth of different animals such as deer, wild boar, crane and turtle
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Heracles wrestles the Nemean Lion above a frieze of Sphinxes. Attic or Boeotian black-figure strainer-vase (sponge-holder), artist unknown; ca. 530-520 BCE. Now in the Louvre.

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Partisan Carried by the Bodyguard of Louis XIV (1638–1715, reigned from 1643)
Dated: circa 1678–1709
Sword cutler: inscription probably refers to Bonaventure Ravoisie (French, Paris, recorded 1678–1709)
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: steel, gold, wood, textile
Measurements: overall length 94 1/8 inches (239 cm); length of head 22 9/16 inches (57.3 cm); width of head 6 ½ inches (16.5 cm)
Inscription: decoration on this partisan features a sunburst surmounted by Louis XIV’s motto, NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR (Not equaled by many); inscribed along the curved lower edge on both sides of the blade: RAVOISIE FOVRBISSEVR DV ROY A PARIS
Provenance: Ex coll.: de Dino
This partisan, along with two like it also in the Metropolitan Museum’s collection (acc. nos. 14.25.454, 04.3.64), are thought to have been carried by the Gardes de la Manche (literally, “guards of the sleeve,” indicating their close proximity to the king), an elite unit of the bodyguard of Louis XIV.
This example (along with 04.3.64) bears the king’ motto and sunburst above the crowned arms of France and Navarre, which are encircled by the collars of the royal orders of the Holy Spirit and Saint Michael. It is inscribed RAVOISIE FOVRBISSEVR DV ROY A PARIS, probably referring to Bonaventure Ravoisie, a royal cutler recorded between 1678 and 1709.
The other partisan (14.25.454) is from a small group designed by Jean Bérain the Elder (1637–1711) for the marriage of Louis’s niece Marie-Louise d'rléans to Carlos II of Spain in 1679. The decoration features a sunburst surmounted by the king’s motto, ‘NEC PLURIBUS IMPAR’ (’not equalled by many’). Beneath, the sun god Apollo is being crowned with laurel by the winged figure of Fame. The sunburst and Apollo were favourite symbols of Louis XIV, the self-styled Sun King.
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Vishnu on Adisesha, 11th–12th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Asian Art
Rogers Fund, 1974 Size: H. 1 ¾ in. (4.4 cm); W. 2 in. (5.1 cm) Medium: Bronze
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