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Memento mori beads in the collection of the British Museum

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Description: The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
Over seventy early sixteenth-century memento mori in the form of finely carved ivory beads are held in museums across Europe and America. These institutions generally display them as examples of the artistic achievements of the early modern...
PublisherBowdoin College Museum of Art
Related print edition pages: pp.209-227
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00238.004

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