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The Artist Project

The Artist Project: Moyra Davey

Artist Moyra Davey reflects on a rosary terminal bead with lovers and Death's head in this episode of The Artist Project.
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From March 2015 to June 2016, we invited 120 artists—local, national, and global—to choose individual works of art or galleries that sparked their imaginations. In this online series, artists reflect on what art is, what inspires them from across 5,000 years of art, and in so doing, they reveal the power of a museum and The Met.

"It's a reminder of death, but at the same time you can be in denial because the exquisite nature of this takes over."

Moyra Davey reflects on a rosary terminal bead with lovers and Death's head in this episode of The Artist Project—an online series in which artists respond to works of art in The Met collection.

About the Artist
Moyra Davey, born in Canada in 1958, is a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums, including photography, writing and video.

Three color photographs of worn and aged copper pennies

Moyra Davey (American, born Canada, 1958)

Copperhead Grid, 1990

100 chromogenic prints; 10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3 cm), each. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2011 (2011.17a–vvvv) © Moyra Davey

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Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head, Elephant ivory, with emerald pendant, silver-gilt mount, North French or South Netherlandish
Rosary Terminal Bead with Lovers and Death's Head
North French or South Netherlandish
ca. 1500–1525