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Thordénrummet: Life, Death and Art- from the Museum Collection
The skull in the visual arts reminds us of the transience of life, that we are all mortal. Two terms in Latin are usually used to describe this motif – vanitas (emptiness or vanity) and memento mori (remember that you are mortal). On the museum’s upper floor, a selection from the museum’s collection is shown this summer, where birth, death and art history take place.
Activities
Through the centuries, death as a figure has inspired art and literature, music, theatre, dance, and film. In the motif of the dance of death (in French “danse macabre”), death leads people in a long dance towards the grave. The medieval artist Albertus Pictor’s church painting “Death Playing Chess” (1480s) was given new life in Ingemar Bergman’s film “The Seventh Seal (1957). You are welcome to play a game inside Thordénrummet, or why not sit down in Konstpausen and draw some skulls in pencil?