Vivitur ingenio, caetera mortis erunt
Memento Mori
The poetic skeletons. Where the anatomists became stage-directors — a dance of death, a still life grown from the body itself, science as a meditation on mortality.
The plates in Memento Mori
Jacques Gamelin · 1779
The Dance of Death
Skeletons in restless, theatrical motion.
Nouveau Recueil d’Ostéologie et de Myologie · 1779
after Frederik Ruysch · early 18th c.
An Anatomical Tableau
A still life built from the body itself.
Thesaurus Anatomicus