Art’s Greatest Gift of Death
In Pompeii’s ruins, buried beneath three meters of volcanic ash, was a two-millennia-old mosaic concerning the transitoriness of all things. Now exhibited in the National Archeology Museum in nearby Naples, similarly death-haunted by the same volcano that rendered Pompeii a ghost town, the so-called Memento Mori mosaic features in colored tesserae and mortar the cackling […]
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