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A Memento Mori
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A Memento Mori is one of three vanitas pictures in a series commissioned by Isaac de Matatia Aboab, a wealthy East India merchant, emphasizing the impermanence of material pleasures and the transitory…

Contributor:

Benjamin Senior Godines

Places:

Dutch Republic (Netherlands)

Date:

1681

Subjects:

Death, Animals, Morality, Ecology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Painting with Hebrew and Portuguese text throughout, and depiction of man in graveyard accompanied by servant seeing decaying corpse being picked apart by crows.