File:Memento mori (Roelant Savery) - Nationalmuseum - 29167.tif
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Summary
Roelant Savery: Memento mori
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| Title |
Memento mori |
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painting  |
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| Genre |
religious art |
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| Description |
This painting with its animal skeletons and skulls interspersed with living animals and insects could be interpreted as a reminder of the fact that everything is finite. The title suggests this: remember that you are mortal. Symbolism of this kind was common and was meant to urge people to reflect, and caution against sinful living. The artist Savery had spent time as court painter to the emperor Rudolf II in Prague. The painting was probably produced at the emperor’s court, where there was great interest in nature and zoology. |
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| Date | between 1600 and 1609 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | oil on oak wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | height: 20.3 cm (7.9 in); width: 23.5 cm (9.2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Paintings |
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| Accession number |
NM 6936 |
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| Place of creation | Prague (presumably ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Object history |
28 February 1936: anonymous sale at Christie's, London (auction house), lot no. 16, result unknown Robert Witt (1872-1952), London (?) 8 April 1987: sale of the collection of Sir John and Lady Witt at Sotheby's, London, lot no. 125, for GBP 21,000 1995: purchased by the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, from Richard L. Feigen & Co. (art dealer), New York City/Chicago |
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| Exhibition history |
Das flämische Stilleben. 1550-1680, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, 18 March 2002–21 July 2002, ISBN 3923641486, p. 146-147, cat. no. 44. |
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| Inscriptions |
Signature and date bottom right: ROELAND / SAVERY 160[.]
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| References |
Nationalmuseum, as Memento mori, circa 1610-1612. RKDimages, Art-work number 5930, as Landschap met vogels en dierskeletten (Memento Mori), 160.? (1601-1609) |
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| Source/Photographer | Nationalmuseum | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
Public domain | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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