At Eternity's Gate ☴ Van Gogh ☶ Art Print memento mori parody or pay homage to

parody or pay homage to it in literature

tree trunks

The chart on the wall of "all the sea coasts of Europe" has been identified as one published in that period by cartographer and atlas maker Willem Janszoon Blaeu

while his public persona was combative

It is interpreted as an emblem of life's transience and individual salvation

At Eternity's Gate ☴ Van Gogh ☶ Art Print memento mori parody or pay homage toAt Eternity's Gate, or Sorrowing Old Man (1890) by Vincent van Gogh depicts an old man with his elbows on his knees, head in his hands, sitting in a chair by a fireplace. Based on an earlier lithograph from 1882, it was a subject he returned to many times over the years. This final version was painted in Saint Rmy de Provence while recovering from a severe relapse in his health. There is no modern consensus on his condition, suggestions include