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  2. Memento mori - Wikipedia

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    Especially popular in Holland and then spreading to other European nations, vanitas paintings typically represented assemblages of numerous symbolic objects such as human skulls, guttering candles, wilting flowers, soap bubbles, butterflies, and hourglasses. In combination, vanitas assemblies conveyed the impermanence of human endeavours and of ...

  3. Antirrhinum - Wikipedia

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    Antirrhinum is a genus of plants in the Plantaginaceae family, commonly known as dragon flowers or snapdragons because of the flowers' fancied resemblance to the face of a dragon that opens and closes its mouth when laterally squeezed. They are also sometimes called toadflax [1] or dog flower. [2]

  4. Antirrhinum majus - Wikipedia

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    The common name "snapdragon", originates from the flowers' reaction to having their throats squeezed, which causes the "mouth" of the flower to snap open like a dragon's mouth. It is widely used as an ornamental plant in borders and as a cut flower. It is perennial but usually cultivated as an annual plant.

  5. Flowers, prayer, dancing at annual Bolivian skull festival

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    The festival is a mix of Andean ancestral worship and Roman Catholic beliefs -- experts say it was common in pre-Columbian times to keep skulls as trophies. Flowers, prayer, dancing at annual ...

  6. Death's-head hawkmoth - Wikipedia

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    The former species is found throughout Africa and in Europe, the latter two are Asian; most uses of the common name refer to the African species. These moths are easily distinguishable by the vaguely human skull-shaped pattern of markings on the thorax. They are large nocturnal moths with brown and yellow or orange coloring, and all three ...

  7. Vanitas - Wikipedia

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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.

  8. Carel Fonteyn - Wikipedia

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    Vanitas still life with flowers, a skull, hourglass, conch shell and silver jug on a partially draped table. Carel Fonteyn or Carel Fontyn [1] (fl Antwerp, 1655–1665) was a Flemish painter active in Antwerp. [2] He is known for his Vanitas still lifes with flowers, skulls and other Vanitas symbols. [3]

  9. Flower Garland with Butterfly - Wikipedia

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    Flower Garland with Butterfly is a lost painting by the Flemish artist Michaelina Wautier. It is suspected that the painting is a pendant of a similar still life, Flower Garland with Dragonfly. Both pictures have skulls at either side, follow a similar arrangement of the flowers, and were both painted in 1652. [1]

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