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Vanitas by Antonio de Pereda. Vanitas (Latin for 'vanity', in this context meaning pointlessness, or futility, not to be confused with the other definition of vanity) is a genre of memento mori symbolizing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, and thus the vanity of ambition and all worldly desires.
The platform presents a twelve-part collage of layered blue toned A4 photocopies made directly of the artist's naked form, dead animals, plants and drapery suspended in an ovoid pool. The work speaks to the still life, evoking vanitas tradition in its subtle depictions of the transience of the things we surround ourselves with.
Vanitas still life, attributed to Lievens (Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle) Still Life with Books is an oil-on-panel, with dimensions of 91 cm (36 in) × 120 cm (47 in). It is in the style of Spanish vanitas paintings. [1] The idea of this style of painting was to show possessions and wealth are fleeting and mean nothing when one is faced with death ...
Other Flemish still life artists were also producing vanitas still lifes on the death of King Charles I for the Dutch market. An example is the Vanitas still life with a poem on the death of Charles I by Godfriedt van Bochoutt (signed and dated 1668, at Bonhams auction of 23 October 2019, London lot 67TP. [15]
His known works include vanitas still lifes and still lifes with foodstuffs, paintings of hermits and religious paintings. [2]A hermit. His Vanitas Still Life with Astronomical Instruments in the Nationalmuseum depicts all kinds of objects such as a crowned skull, an extinguished candle along with a telescope, astronomical measuring instruments, and a celestial globe on a table. [4]
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 01:30, 21 December 2020: 650 × 503 (151 KB): Daniel Case {{Artwork |wikidata=Q65953418 |title=Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan |Description ={{en|1=Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and a Fan (Stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1972; present whereabouts unknown ...
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Evert Collier's oil on canvas Self-Portrait with a Vanitas Still-life, 1684, Honolulu Museum of Art Edward Collier's trompe-l'œil painting Edward Collier's vanitas entitled Parliament, Circa 1695. Evert Collier (26 January 1642 – few days before 8 September 1708) was a Dutch Golden Age still-life painter known for vanitas and trompe-l'œil ...