Memento mori? More like Memento WTFi. That ivory pendant is....can you imagine gifting that to someone? What does that say? "Carpe the hell out of your diem for tomorrow you are wormfood"? I don't know. Showing affection in 16thC Southern Germany: a real work-in-progress situation.
I dearly love that spider brooch though. And if that says something equally bad about me, I am willing to live with it.
This was an excellent issue and I won't sleep a wink tonight.
It’s more of an “all of your possessions and achievements are worthless, for you will die like everyone else.” It was (unsurprisingly) a Christian concept and was particularly popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, with memento mori jewelry worn as a personal reminder to live a pious life, maintaining a constant eye towards the afterlife. Mary, Queen of Scots supposedly owned this skull watch engraved with the Horace quote: “Pale death knocks with the same tempo upon the huts of the poor and the towers of Kings.” It’s pretty amazing looking: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8558097/memento-mori-watch-in-the-form-of-a-skull-known-as-the-mary-queen-of-scots-watch-skull-watch-verge-movement
So yeah, that pendant was probably part of a large rosary or something. It’s awful. But a lot of the other memento mori jewelry is pretty cool! Check out this skeleton ring: https://www.rowanandrowan.com/skeletal/
Holy god, that ivory pendant is insane! Amazing it's 512 years old. But I'd still rather have that in my house than the mirror. Nyerr. I could see sitting in front of that thing transfixed for months growing my old man beard...
You've come up with the only spider that wouldn't have me screaming and swatting.
It's a very fancy spider; it will instead beguile you with its sparkles!
Memento mori? More like Memento WTFi. That ivory pendant is....can you imagine gifting that to someone? What does that say? "Carpe the hell out of your diem for tomorrow you are wormfood"? I don't know. Showing affection in 16thC Southern Germany: a real work-in-progress situation.
I dearly love that spider brooch though. And if that says something equally bad about me, I am willing to live with it.
This was an excellent issue and I won't sleep a wink tonight.
It’s more of an “all of your possessions and achievements are worthless, for you will die like everyone else.” It was (unsurprisingly) a Christian concept and was particularly popular in the 16th and 17th centuries, with memento mori jewelry worn as a personal reminder to live a pious life, maintaining a constant eye towards the afterlife. Mary, Queen of Scots supposedly owned this skull watch engraved with the Horace quote: “Pale death knocks with the same tempo upon the huts of the poor and the towers of Kings.” It’s pretty amazing looking: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8558097/memento-mori-watch-in-the-form-of-a-skull-known-as-the-mary-queen-of-scots-watch-skull-watch-verge-movement
So yeah, that pendant was probably part of a large rosary or something. It’s awful. But a lot of the other memento mori jewelry is pretty cool! Check out this skeleton ring: https://www.rowanandrowan.com/skeletal/
What a fabulous issue of Dearest!
Thank you!!! ❤️
Holy god, that ivory pendant is insane! Amazing it's 512 years old. But I'd still rather have that in my house than the mirror. Nyerr. I could see sitting in front of that thing transfixed for months growing my old man beard...
Haaaaa - like Narcissus staring at himself in a pool of water, just old.
I presume the cure for those who are haunted by beards is not to take a Smith Brothers cough drop and then listen to ZZ Top.
Great issue!
Those owls! they are adorable and not terribly scary. maybe. Thanks for this issue!