Detail from a marble tomb depicting a skeleton. Such images are known as \Momento Mori\", a Latin phrase meaning remember you must die. This type of i
Detail from a marble tomb depicting a skeleton. Such images are known as \Momento Mori\", a Latin phrase meaning remember you must die. This type of image was particularly popular on tombs in the Middle Ages to remind the living of their mortality and of the divine judgement which would follow. This tomb is in the Spanish Chapel, Santa Maria Novella, Florence."
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