Word: mementoes
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...Glueck, considers himself something of an amateur Biblical scholar and regards the Bible as "an extraordinary record of ancient history as well as beautiful literature." This has long been Archaeologist Glueck's thesis, and his Biblical scholarship has often helped him locate sites in the Holy Land. One memento from Glueck that Leonard treasures is a piece of slag from King Solomon's copper mines, which Glueck rediscovered...
Only Nature Counts. The kinship of his harlequin colors seems miraculous. Foliage flutters before the eye like scurrying butterflies. An overcoat lying on a chair takes on the bulk and presence of its wearer. A still life of skulls-piled more like strange fruit than memento mori-melts their contours into the curves of a parti-colored tablecloth in a haunting arabesque...
...Memento Mori. Ann Parker, a handsome blonde whose lively enthusiasm is far from ghoulish, got the idea of immortalizing tombstone carving one weekend after stumbling on a weed-grown graveyard near the hamlet of Colrain, Mass. She and Neal started boning up on New England stonecutters, found that most of them had been Yankee Jacks-of-all-trades who knew how to use chisel and mallet. One stonecutter, John Stevens of Newport, R.I., set up a shop for himself in 1705 that is still in operation after being handed down through generations of stonecutters...
...most prolific era of tombstone carving lay between 1650 and 1800. With prosperity and education, fashion began to dictate design, and the fine art of the gravestone, with its candid memento mori portraits, its fire-and-brimstone skulls and scythe-bearing skeletons, disappeared. "After' 1820, everything was urns and willow trees." says Ann Parker...
...sequence is masterful. With a few stark strokes Antonioni puts a diffuse and apparently senseless picture in a frame, in a black border of mortality that instantly reveals its perspective and its significance as a spiritual admonition, a memento mori. What's more, the frame reveals the picture as an extraordinary effort of style, as a definitive treatment of the themes Antonioni developed in L'Avventura and La Notte. As in those films, he employs the method of tedium to explain the nature of tedium, but he employs it so skillfully now that boredom is seldom boring. Vitti...