| I own one of his self-portraits from the 1970s, the one with the skull as a memento mori on the shoulder. |
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| The juxtaposition of press clippings and grim artefacts offers a memento mori. |
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| The Chichester Cathedral misericord of the amphisbaena is shown to be a memento mori by the surrounding carvings. |
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| On either side the rusting skeletons of dead trucks lined the route like a line of memento mori. |
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| It is believed to be a memento mori of his only daughter who died from diphtheria as a child. |
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| It seems out of key with the moralising and religious aims of memento mori. |
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| While the works are truly soulful and, on occasion, memento mori, they are at once full of hope and wonder. |
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| The one in the middle at the bottom is beneath a phylactery reading memento mori, and written in the one on the right are the words respice finem. |
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| To see United 93 in a movie theater stateside was to receive a collective gut-punch, a bracing memento mori whose impact, I suspect, did not transfer to theatrical venues beyond American shores. |
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| Veritable memento mori, Flower gives the impression of a pedestal of life: on a table a horn is placed which supports a ball inside of which the image of a luxuriant flower is projected. |
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| These works thus emerge as veritable contemporary memento mori. |
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| These were reminders, literally memento mori, of one's inexorable fate, for which nature morte offered the perfect pictorial form. |
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| The skulls that feature so prominently are a memento mori much used by Hirst in recent years, notably in the diamond-encrusted skull For the Love of God. |
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| Every photograph is a memento mori, but as we prefer to forget that reminder of death, we are easily persuaded that these images, too, represent real, living people. |
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