[Liste] Victorian Memento Mori Art

One of the most unsettling yet strangely poignant traditions of the victorian era was the practice of post mortem photography.

Victorian memento mori art. Post mortem photos or memento mori latin for remember that you will die were often the only time a person was photographed. Favorite add to memento mori print. 5 out of 5 stars 1 522 1 522 reviews 15 00. When photography was a new art form it was expensive and the process was laborious. The idea has been central to art philosophy literature architecture and more throughout history. Check out these 18 examples of memorial photos from the victorian age. Known as post mortem photography victorians had pictures taken of the recently deceased sometimes staged to look as if they were still.

This is hardly surprising. Apr 25 2017 explore bitingpatches s board memento mori art on pinterest. Jan 8 2018 explore sherry thurmon s board victorian momento mori followed by 234 people on pinterest. See more ideas about memento mori post mortem photography memento mori art. From the bubonic plague to the spanish flu all it took was one particularly violent strain of disease to decimate the human population. History of memento mori art read more. See more ideas about momento mori post mortem photography post mortem.

The sad hour 5x7 fine art print victorian mourning memento mori hourglass portrait dark art illustration caitlinmccarthyart. While the expression may sound somber the point of memento mori is to serve as a reminder of our mortality so as to make best use of the time we have now. The first successful form of photography the daguerreotype. Memento mori is a latin term that translates to remember that you will die and has been illustrated in numerous works of art. The truth behind victorian death photography dancy mason. The most obvious places to look for memento mori meditations are in funeral art and architecture perhaps the most striking to contemporary minds is the transi or cadaver tomb a tomb that depicts the decayed corpse of the deceased. But in the mid 1800s photography was becoming increasingly popular and affordable leading to memento mori photographic portraiture.

This became a fashion in the tombs of the wealthy in the fifteenth century and surviving examples still offer a stark reminder of the vanity of earthly riches. The macabre victorian art of death photography.