A case of curiosities • fine art taxidermy & assemblage. Disruptive Science: Brave New WorldViews. Damn Data | Cabinet of Wonders. A Repository for Bottled Monsters. P h r e e q u e s h o w. Morbid Anatomy. CRAPPY TAXIDERMY. Art Of Mourning: A resource for memorial, mourning, sentimental. Memento mori. Memento Mori(Remember that you will die) This page deals with the representation of Death in sculptures in Rome during the XVIIth and XVIIIth centuries. The request for sculptures was mainly linked to funerary monuments. A visit to Galleria Doria Pamphilj in Rome which is still set up as a private property shows the lack of balance between the number of paintings and the number of sculptures in the decoration of a rich palace: while the paintings covered the walls up to the ceiling, the sculptures were limited to a few busts and antique statues, so sculptors had to rely on funerary monuments for their living.
Because the rich were buried in the churches, they wanted a monument inside the church to mark their graves: the optimum was to have a family chapel, but this was reserved to a limited number of very rich families, so very often the monuments were just put along the walls or on the pillars of the churches. Tombs Valtrini in S. Lorenzo in Damaso and Merenda in S. Giacomo alla Lungara. Anthropomorphe.