The ivory mirror : the art of mortality in Renaissance Europe /
Perkinson, Stephen,author.
Perkinson, Stephen.Ivory mirror.
Bowdoin College.Museum of Art,organizer,host institution.
"This book is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe, presented at Bowdoin College Museum of Art from June 24 to November 26, 2017."--page following page 279.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-264) and index.
The Ivory Mirror / Stephen Perkinson -- The Light at the End of the Tunnel : Manuscript Illumination and the Concept of Death / Elizabeth Morrison -- Chicart Bailly and the Specter of Death : Memento Mori in a Sixteenth-Century Estate Inventory / Katherine Baker -- Plates -- List of Plates -- Memento mori Beads : Collecting Histories and Contexts / Naomi Speakman -- The Poetry of Death / Emma Maggie Solberg.
Death in art
Art, Renaissance
Ivories, Renaissance