Francois Robert spent hundreds of hours to create this artwork. He purchased a human skeleton in the mid-90’s, during an auction from an old school and he called this work Stop the violence.

Japanese artist Fumie Sasabuchi uses the image and idea of death to explore body and its surface, creating a series of hybrid images in which promotional aesthetic is fused with material naturalistic anatomical study.

[via beautifuldecay and trendland]

The skull ice cube mold from GAMAGO…

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Halloween, South Side, 1951, Chicago. Yasuhiro Ishimoto.

(via number six london, source Calumet 412)

Portia Munson, Skull Flower 2008, pigmented in on rag paper, 61×43 inches

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Attilio Codognato is the current owner and fourth-generation heir of Casa Codognato, a world renowned jewelry boutique located near Piazza San Marco in Venice. Casa Codognato was founded in 1866 by Attilio’s great-grandfather, Simeone Codognato, and the family tradition of exquisite jewelry continues, also today, with Attilio’s work. Always evocative, his aesthetics reminds at “memento mori”. The shop features brooches, antique cameos, serpentine rings previously worn by such well-known members of the world of style as Coco Chanel, Diana Vreeland, Elton John, Elizabeth Taylor, Nicole Kidman.

People traverse the world to reach Casa Codognato, Attilio says, because “the Codognato style is a common reflection on death, and thus on life. […] a message that celebrates the image of life.”

[via grey magazine]