Memento Mori from Pompeii Acrylic Print
by Weston Westmoreland
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Memento Mori from Pompeii acrylic print by Weston Westmoreland. Bring your artwork to life with the stylish lines and added depth of an acrylic print. Your image gets printed directly onto the back of a 1/4" thick sheet of clear acrylic. The high gloss of the acrylic sheet complements the rich colors of any image to produce stunning results. Two different mounting options are available, see below.
Design Details
Memento Mori mosaic from Pompeii, 30 BC - 14 AD.... more
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Artist's Description
Memento Mori mosaic from Pompeii, 30 BC - 14 AD.
Detail of one of the amazing mosaics recovered from the doomed city of Pompeii, known as the Memento Mori (remember you will die).
This mosaic represents the Wheel of Fortune which, as it turns, can make the rich poor and the poor rich, with death never far and life hanging by a thread: when it breaks, the soul (the butterfly) flies off. And thus are all made equal.
This image was displayed in a triclinium (a formal dining room in a Roman building). This originally Greek topic presents death as the great leveler who cancels out all differences of wealth and class.The whole composition hangs from a level with a plumb line, the instrument used by masons. The weight is the skull (death).
Suspended from the arms of the level in perfect balance by death, are wealth and power on the left (the scepter and purple) and poverty on the right (the beggar’s scrip and stick). The theme was intended to remind diner...
About Weston Westmoreland
Hi there, Born in '72 and shooting pictures since '83, I particularly enjoy creating wide panoramic compositions, HDRs, HDR Panoramas... But not just... Here you will find landscapes and cityscapes, ancient ruins and modern buildings, moons and seas, planes and boats, guns and flowers, animals and machines, forests and deserts, vanguard and prehistory, digital and film, color and black & white, graves and newborns, temples, trenches, palaces, castles, tanks, churches, bunkers... However, they have some things in common: they are meaningful images, I believe them all to be beautiful, and they are for the most part unique. Come in and judge for yourself. W. W. WE CAN CUSTOMIZE ANY PICTURE TO YOUR PERSONAL LIKING AND MAKE IT...
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