Robert Jannys, Mayor of Norwich: 1517 & 1524
John Masham, Mayor of Norwich: 1518
Augustine Steward, Mayor of Norwich: 1534, 1546 & 1556
Robert Yarham, Mayor of Norwich: 1591
(Norwich Civic Portrait Collection, #Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery) #MementoMori
Eyes Open
“There seemed to be endless obstacles preventing me from living with my eyes open, but as I gradually followed up clue after clue it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.”― Marion Milner, A Life of One's Own
"In Ictu Oculi (In the Blink of an Eye)," Juan de Valdés Leal, 1670-72.
I find this brutally macabre work endlessly fascinating. Death itself treads on a celestial sphere, and is surrounded by markers of worldly wealth and power, while snuffing out a candle. Death levels all; it doesn't care about your achievements, and it looks out at you as if warning that your turn will come.
This is viewed as Leal's finest work, and is part of a diptych; the other part shows the corpses of a knight and bishop. What's weird is that these were commissioned for a charity hospital...quite a thing to see when you go in! But in those days a hospital was likely the last stop anyway...
This still hangs at the hospital, along with a number of other works.
Huomaan että tämä 500 merkkiä ei oikein riitä Mastodonin käyttötapaani.
Toisaalta en haluaisi myöskään pyörittää serveriä, kun en usko teknisiin kykyihini ylläpitää sitä kriisitilanteissa, tai luottaa viestihistoriaani jonkun (puoli)tuntemattoman pulssin ja/tai kiinnostuksen varaan.
@iju onneksi @rolle :lla on instanssi testamentissa mainittu siltä varalta, että hänen pulssinsa hiljenee ja #mementomori jos jokin suomalaisista instansseista on kriisin kestävä - tämä on varmaan pystyssä vielä sittenkin, jos/kun koko fediverse kaatuu, mutta siihen minä en valitettavasti voi vaikuttaa, että mihin sinä haluat luottaa.
toivottavasti saat ongelmasi tavalla tai toisella ratkottua niin, että se sinua miellyttää.
Naurattaa kun ajattelen miten Musk herää joka aamu raivosta punaisena kun kukaan twitterissä ei halua maksaa sen käytöstä, koska noh miksi haluaisi ja sitten taas Mastodontissa ihmiset lahjoittavat ylläpitäjille rahaa, koska kaikki haluavat maksaa hyvästä palvelusta 😁
@valoisa minä olen miettinyt samaa, kun oon silloin tällöin nähnyt, kun @rolle :lle on koitettu tarjota rahaa hyvästä työstään #MementoMori :n ylläpitäjänä, mutta sille ei edes raha kelpaa, koska instanssin pyörittämisestä ei sille koidu erillisiä kuluja 😁
Carved from wood, this 16th-century figure shows a corpse inside a coffin. The body is decaying and worms are spilling from the stomach. The coffin is a memento mori, an object that reminds the viewer of the shortness of human life & the inevitability of death.
I used to have a favorite tree. It was a centuries-old beech tree, standing free on a small meadow, separated from the groves to its sides.
It was a glorious tree, with a mighty crown and heavy branches, strong and thin enough to allow children to hoist themselves up. Higher still, four trunks reached into the sky but not without offering the climber a place to rest like the palm of a wooden hand. "The Old Beech" as we called it, "Die Alte Buche" was not one but four trees, siblings sharing not only water, ground, and parasites, but even a common gown of bark.
A few years ago, a developer bought the area around it. It's close to my parent's house and there was much curiosity and some concern about what would happen to the woods and lines of sight. The beech stood under nature protection though, so it would stay and the developers had to make place for it with a small "park" around.
There won't be a park anymore. In February 2022, the old beech faced its last storm that took one of the four siblings. Briefly thereafter, chainsaws came for the other three. It saddens me still. But I am grateful I was visiting during that time, that I was able to say goodbye on my terms.
Mementos Mori - 20 HORSES ON DA TRACK (Real Trap Shit Mix) (www.reddit.com)
Mori and Rob at the BAHAMAS (clips.twitch.tv)