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  2. Vanitas - Wikipedia

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    The paintings involved still life imagery of transitory items. The genre began in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is a type of allegorical art representing a higher ideal. It was a sub-genre of painting heavily employed by Dutch painters during the Baroque period (c.1585–1730). [1]

  3. Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life - Wikipedia

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    The work is a still life in the genre of vanitas, painted with oils on oak panel, and measuring 39.2 by 50.7 cm (15.4 by 20.0 in). [1] Like most vanitas paintings, it contains deep religious overtones and was created to both remind viewers of their mortality (a memento mori) and to indicate the transient nature of material objects. [3]

  4. Vanitas (Champaigne) - Wikipedia

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    Vanitas (1646) by Philippe de Champaigne. Vanitas, also known as Allegory of Human Life or Still Life with a Skull, is an oil on panel painting attributed to Philippe de Champaigne, from 1646. It is held in the musée de Tessé , in Le Mans, which bought it at a public auction in 1884. [1] [2]

  5. Cornelis van der Meulen - Wikipedia

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    A typical vanitas still life by van der Meulen is the Vanitas still life with a skull, a guttering candle, a tortoiseshell mirror, a book, a statuette of saint Susanna, and a pack of cards (Sotheby's sale of 10 May 2019, London, lot 287). It contains many of the typical symbols of vanitas paintings.

  6. Hendrick Andriessen - Wikipedia

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    Most of Andriessen's vanitas still lifes include a skull as one of the key props. [12] Vanitas still life with a skull. One of Andriessen's best-known works is the Vanitas still life with a globe, sceptre, a skull crowned with straw (c. 1650, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum).

  7. Still Life with Books - Wikipedia

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    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 ...