various Memento mori, Vanitas

Mosaic from Pompei 30 BC-14 AD

Matthias Lucas Brunn, 1590-1610
His Initial Letters are in the mouth of the skull

Mezzotint by Johann Jakob Haid (1750)
"Vana Omnia": "All is Vanity"

Hans Wechtlin, 1500-1525

IAM of Zwolle,1480-1490
Allegory of The Transience of Life

Antonio de Pereda y Salgado, 17th century

Paul Cezanne, Pyramid of skulls (1901)

Dorothea Barre (2010)

Dino Buzzati
illustration from Poema a fumetti (1969)