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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.
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 ...
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.
An example of a vanitas still life by Fonteyn is the Vanitas still life with flowers, a skull, hourglass, conch shell and silver jug on a partially draped table (signed and indistinctly dated lower centre on the parchment: Nicolaes van verendael / anno 1680, sold at Sotheby's on 7–10 December 2016 in London lot 20 as by Nicolaes van Verendael ...
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An example of a vanitas still life by Veerendael is the Vanitas with skulls (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen). The painting shows similarities with another vanitas work called Vanitas still life with a bunch of flowers, a candle, smoking implements and a skull in the Galleria Franchetti at the Ca' d'Oro, Venice dated
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Young Man with a Skull is an oil on canvas painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, created in 1626-1628, now in the National Gallery, in London.The painting was previously thought to be a depiction of Shakespeare's Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, but is now considered to be a vanitas, a reminder of the precarious nature of life and the inevitability of death.