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Vanitas with the Spinario is a 1628 still life painting by Pieter Claesz, now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. It belongs to the sub-genre of vanitas . To the left is a reduced-size reproduction of the Spinario statue.
Vanitas with the Spinario, 1628, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.. He was born in Berchem, Belgium, near Antwerp, where he became a member of the Guild of St. Luke in 1620. He moved to Haarlem in 1620, where his son, the landscape painter Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was born (October 1). [1]
English: Vanitas Still life with Books, a Globe, a Skull, a Violin and A Pocket Watch (Stolen from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in 1972; present whereabouts unknown.
In the following century, Charles I of England had a bronze Spinario made by Hubert Le Sueur. [7] Small bronze reductions were suitable for the less grand. A Still Life with 'Spinario' by Pieter Claesz, 1628, is conserved at the Rijksmuseum, and among the riches emblematic of the good life, it displays a small plaster model of the Spinario. [8]
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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.