Wednesday, 7 October 2026

Sixteenth-century memento mori with a chained figure in a boxwood coffin amid flames

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Carved light wood relief of a bearded, half-naked man with a hand raised to his mouth, surrounded by curling flames.

A sixteenth-century memento mori: a figurine in a boxwood coffin, chained and ringed with flames, somewhat recalls the plasticine works of the contemporary artist Tatyana Brodach. Let us be frank: the fellow burning in hell comes off rather better

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