In the title as in the picture, events and past occurrences are staged dramatically and stage-like, by means of sweeping curves and exaggerated proportions.
Animal figures, borrowed from Baroque hunting scenes, and the inevitable stag from the Biedermeier era are spectators in the midst of a frivolous and superficial hustle and bustle.
In the Rococo period, the ideals of an individual's love and nature were considered the refuge of a dreamed Arcadia.
The Latin saying "Memento mori" reminds us of the memory of our own mortality. In German, this saying can be rendered as "Gedenke zu sterben." In contrast to the ancient Roman "Memento moriendum esse" ("Remember that you are mortal"), with which generals were warned against hubris during their triumphal march in Rome, the medieval "Memento mori" calls man to self-reflection on his own existence and confronts him with his own finitude and transience.
