Memento Mori Painting
Dimitri Likissas - Memento Mori, Painting 2022
Located in Stamford, CT
image. That they have to pay just a little more attention to the basics.
This Painting will be shipped
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
18th Century, Italian
Memento Mori
Old Master School of Guido Reni
By Guido Reni
Located in Atlanta, GA
a suffering lady (we believe this could be Mary Magdalene).
It is also a Memento mori, a Latin
Category
Antique 18th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$6,240 Sale Price
20% Off
H 40 in W 31.625 in D 1 in
Memento Mori
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This painting, titled Memento Mori is an ode to vintage skull portraits. Framed in vintage gold
Category
2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
18th Century Oil on Canvas Heraldic Funerary Hatchment Painting
Located in London, GB
18th Century Oil on Canvas Heraldic Funerary Hatchment Painting, Memento Mori Painting, Vanitas
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century British Gothic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$7,242
H 50.01 in W 50.01 in D 1.19 in
Rare 18th-Century Spanish Colonial Painting – Nun in Memento Mori Iconography
Located in Rio De Janeiro, BR
Rare 18th-Century Spanish Colonial Painting – Nun in Memento Mori Iconography
An exceptional 18th
Category
Antique Mid-18th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$8,170
H 43.31 in W 28.35 in D 1.58 in
Oracle, Contemporary Art Photorealist Memento Mori Oil Painting by Matthew Bober
By Matthew Bober
Located in Brooklyn, NY
, chromatic colors, plastic, twine, screws a memento mori presented as a formal alter piece.
Matthew Bober
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$13,000
H 19.25 in W 16.5 in
Memento Mori - Oil Still-Life Painting Colours Black Brown Beige Grey White Pink
By Lyubena Fox
Located in Sofia, BG
hourglasses and wilting flowers signified the impermanence of human life.
Memento Mori
The Painting
Category
2010s Academic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$10,560
H 9.85 in W 6.5 in D 0.79 in
Cherubs Playing
, Angels, Amorini, Memento Mori, Naive, Baroque Religious Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early eighteenth-century, Italian baroque figural oil showing a group of cherubs or Amorini grouped together before red velvet drapes, one reclining on a wooden cross and wearing ...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$3,600
H 23 in W 31 in D 0.13 in
17th Century Memento Mori Vanitas Skull Old Master Oil Ex-Christie’s
Located in Yardley, PA
inclusion of this epigram serves as a direct moral exhortation to the viewer - an intellectual memento mori
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,500
H 21.88 in W 25.25 in D 1.5 in
Banquet with Figures Memento Mori Italian 17th Century After Giovanni Martinelli
Located in Milano, IT
Dipinto Antico del 1600 Banchetto con Figure Memento Mori dopo Giovanni Martinelli la morte arriva
Category
Mid-17th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oak, Oil
$8,305
H 128 in W 149 in D 4 in
Memento Mori - Drawing attr. to Franz Biedermann - 1902
Located in Roma, IT
Memento Mori is a modern artwork realized by Franz Biedermann (attr.) in 1902.
Large-format
Category
Early 1900s Symbolist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper
French Contemporary Art by Claudie Baran - Memento Mori, Wrong and Right
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed technique, acrylic, tempera, ink & dry pastel
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$1,180
H 29.53 in W 40.16 in D 1.58 in
Words to the Wise
, African American Memento Mori, Skeletons, Bay Area, Black
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed on palette, lower right, 'John Diallo Jones' (American, 20th century) and dated 1992.
A dramatic figural oil showing the artist flanked by two whispering skeletons, one of wh...
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$2,450
H 24 in W 20 in D 0.13 in
Miniature painted in gouache on paper, depicting a Memento Mori, Italy 1808.
Located in Milan, IT
Miniature depicting a Memento Mori painted in gouache on paper, grisaille technique. The frame, in
Category
Antique Early 19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Brass
$3,559
H 5.5 in W 4.25 in D 0.75 in
Early 19th Century Italian School Memento Mori Oil on Canvas Welcome Death
Located in Lowestoft, GB
legible but appears to be a typical memento mori motto of welcoming death.
It would appear the piece has
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$3,959
H 60.24 in W 31.89 in D 1.19 in
Death Comes to the Table Memento Mori by Giovanni Martinelli c. 1670
Located in Milano, MI
Dipinto Italiano del 1600 Banchetto con Figure Memento Mori da Giovanni Martinelli, intitolato La
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oak
Late 19th C Memento Mori Calligraphy In memory of Maria Arthur Manchip Died 1899
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A fantastically decorative pen and ink calligraphy composition celebrating the life of a Maria Arthur Manchip who dies 1899.
On paper, in a glazed period frame.
Age related discolo...
Category
Antique Late 19th Century English Late Victorian Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
$677
H 6.5 in W 9.06 in D 0.79 in
Recent Sales
Memento Mori
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jenn Dierdorf's flower paintings offer an arresting take on a timeless subject.
With a reference
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Holy Head - Skull, Abstract, Memento Mori, Acrylic, 21dt Century, Dark, Painting
By Gogi Gelantia
Located in Berlin, DE
. The edges of the canvas are inhabited by life-like flies. Following in the tradition of Memento Mori
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Gösta Werner Memento Mori, 1964, Big Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed
By Gösta Werner
Located in Stockholm, Sweden
Gösta Werner (Swedish 1909-1989.)
Memento mori.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated 1964.
89x116cm
Category
Vintage 1960s Swedish Paintings
Ross Bleckner, Happiness For Instance I, 17-color screenprint, 1997; pink floral
By Ross Bleckner
Located in Houston, TX
artist in New York during the AIDS crisis in the 1980s, Bleckner’s paintings, like memento mori, often
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
H 46.25 in W 36.75 in D 2 in
Baroque Vanitas or Memento Mori of a Skull, Bone, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
the one hand, there are the "Vanitas" or "Memento Mori" (painting, sculpture, relief, etc., sometimes
Category
Antique 17th Century European Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Bone
Memento Mori Skull Painting, Profile View, Original Oil on Canvas Still Life
By Peter Lupkin
Located in Chicago, IL
Vanitas paintings (painting of skulls) first came into favor in the 16th century made popular by
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman with Skull, Memento Mori oil on panel
Located in London, GB
matching wrist cuffs, sits within a genre known as memento mori. In medieval times the theory and practise
Category
16th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
19th Century Carved Marble Vanitas Bust
Located in London, GB
, the Danse Macabre, and the overlapping motif of the Memento mori. Paintings and sculpture, such as
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Renaissance Busts
Materials
Marble
19th Century Naive Half Length Portrait Young Lady in Mourning Memento Mori
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A pleasantly naive half length portrait of a young lady wearing black and her hands clutching, possibly a lady in mourning.
19th Century in age, European in origin.
Age related...
Category
Antique 19th Century European Paintings
Materials
Canvas
H 9.06 in W 4.73 in D 0.4 in
Pair of Untouched 18th Century Funeral Hatchments Coat of Arms Memento Mori
Located in Lowestoft, GB
A rare pair of 18th century oil on canvas funeral hatchments, each hatchment has the latin motto "Resurgam" I shall rise again.
Typical lozenge shape, with black ground and family...
Category
Antique 18th Century English Paintings
Materials
Cane, Pine
H 48.04 in W 48.04 in D 1.19 in
Early 19th Century French School Vanitas Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Antique Vanitas Oil Painting, Antique Memento Mori Oil Painting, Antique Skull Oil Painting, Gothic
Category
Antique Early 19th Century French Gothic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
H 18.23 in W 15.04 in D 2.37 in
Floral Still Life
Located in London, GB
life. Unlike memento mori art, vanitas paintings “also include other symbols such as musical
Category
1920s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Late 19th c. Signed Memento Mori Painting c.1883
Located in San Francisco, CA
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Untitled. An original signed 19th century acrylic Memento Mori painting. Signed "A. Vander
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Late Victorian Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
18th C, Late Baroque Style, Still Life, Dutch School, Vanitas Scene with Cherub
Located in brussel, BE
earthly for the heavenly, is typical of a memento mori painting. The skull immediately confronts us with
Category
18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 30.52 in W 27.96 in D 2.76 in
Mary Magdalene with Book and Skull - Old Master Italian religious oil portrait
Located in Hagley, England
Mary Magdalene. It is also a Memento mori, a Latin phrase meaning ‘remember you must die’. A memento
Category
17th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jack Gravin "Tobacco Plant"
Located in New Orleans, LA
Absolutely superb realism. It has the quality of a Renaissance memento mori painting, and shows the
Category
Early 2000s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paula Wildhack, Memento Mori
Located in Cheltenham, GB
down. It’s a ‘memento mori’, a reminder of one’s own mortality.
Painted in 1894, probably during her
Category
1890s Gothic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Memento mori - A study of a Skull
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
E. Rusch (late 19th century)
Memento mori - Study of a skull
Pencil drawing
Drawing Size - 11 x 18
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Memento Mori, 19th century Spanish School - signed indistinctly dated 1867
Located in Blackwater, GB
Memento Mori, 19th century
Spanish School - signed indistinctly dated 1867
Fine large 19th
Category
19th Century Renaissance Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Hand Painted Venetian Gondola Funeral Board, Memento Mori
Located in Lowestoft, GB
Venetian "rio's". The piece is hand painted with the universal memento mori symbol of death, the skull and
Category
Antique Late 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Pine
H 14.97 in W 140.95 in D 4.73 in
18th Century English Armorial Hatchment of the Knightley Memento Mori
Located in Lowestoft, GB
surface is very much in a stabile condition and untouched. The overall condition of the painting leaves it
Category
Antique Late 18th Century English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Antique American School 19th Century Memento Mori Human Skull Still Life Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school memento mori still life oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size
Category
1870s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
H 14 in W 14 in D 2 in
Memento mori - A study of a Skull in two positions
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
E. Rusch (late 19th century)
Memento mori - Study of a skull in two positions
Pencil drawing
Signed
Category
19th Century Old Masters Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
Vanitas - Original Etching ad Drypoint by A. Doré - 1950s
By Amandine Doré
Located in Roma, IT
, among the most ancient ever represented in painting: the Memento Mori, dealt by the artist with
Category
1950s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
H 11.23 in W 7.41 in D 0.04 in
Large Early 20thC Italian Oil on Canvas Memento Mori Painting of a Skeleton
Located in Bedford, Bedfordshire
The dramatic and large oil on canvas painting depicting a full skeleton resting upon a monument
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
H 25.25 in W 54.25 in D 0.5 in
Painting of Girl with Skull "Memento Mori I" Caitlin Karolczak
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Oil painting of a girl holding skull by contemporary artist Caitlin Karolczak.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Paintings
Oil on Board of Memento Mori Skull and Butterfly
Hodi Mihi Cras Tibi
Located in London, GB
Oil on board depicting skull in photorealistic setting in Romanesque niche. The Latin inscription translates as ‘today me, tomorrow you’, reminding us that we are all mortal.
The w...
Category
Late 20th Century British Classical Roman Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mona Lisa of the North
By Thirdy Bustamante
Located in Singapore, SG
classical beauty with the additional depth of memento mori by painting a glimpse of a skull on the innocent
Category
2010s Renaissance Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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By Max Le Verrier
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Located in Essex, MA
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Pair of French Walnut Library Ladders
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Located in Devon, England
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On 1stDibs, you can find the most appropriate memento mori painting for your needs in our varied inventory. Find Old Masters versions now, or shop for Old Masters creations for a more modern example of these cherished works. If you’re looking for a memento mori painting from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 18th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 21st Century. Adding a memento mori painting to a room that is mostly decorated in warm neutral tones can yield a welcome change — find a piece on 1stDibs that incorporates elements of black, brown, gray and more. A memento mori painting from Gogi Gelantia, Lyubena Fox, Matthew Bober and Paul Kaplan — each of whom created distinctive versions of this kind of work — is worth considering. These artworks were handmade with extraordinary care, with artists most often working in paint, oil paint and canvas.
How Much is a Memento Mori Painting?
A memento mori painting can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price for items in our inventory is $5,183, while the lowest priced sells for $1,070 and the highest can go for as much as $13,000.
Questions About Memento Mori Painting
- What is a memento mori ring?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertOctober 12, 2021Memento mori ring is a ring that is an artistic reminder of the inevitability of death. ‘Memento mori’ is a Latin term that means “remember you must die.” These rings typically either feature a skull, crossbones or skeletons to prompt people to remember the shortness of life. Shop a range of memento mori rings on 1stDibs.
- What does memento mori mean?1 Answer1stDibs ExpertFebruary 22, 2021Memento mori means “remember that you must die” in Latin. A memento mori is an object which serves as either a warning or reminder of death. An example of a memento mori is a skull.
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