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  2. 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.

  3. Vanitas (The Case Study of Vanitas) - Wikipedia

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    Fictional character Vanitas The Case Study of Vanitas character Vanitas, as illustrated by Jun Mochizuki First appearance "Vanitas: In the Event of Rusty Hopes" (2015) Created by Jun Mochizuki Voiced by Natsuki Hanae (Japanese) Zeno Robinson, Cherami Leigh (young) (English) In-universe information Alias 69, Vincent Family Vanitas of the Blue Moon (guardian) Mikhail (adoptive brother) Vanitas ...

  4. Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraten - Wikipedia

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    The objects usually imply a vanitas meaning as they evoke the transience and emptiness of wealth and earthly glory and point to the inevitable extinction of each human life. Vanitas still life. An example is the Vanitas still life at the Royal Collection Trust. It includes several objects that invoke the vanitas meaning: a skull, a glass orb ...

  5. Carel Fonteyn - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Nicolaes van Verendael - Wikipedia

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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

  7. Vanity - Wikipedia

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    Vanitas (Latin for vanity) by Léon Bazille Perrault, 1886. Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century, it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. [1]

  8. Hendrick Andriessen - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. The Case Study of Vanitas - Wikipedia

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    By June 2021, The Case Study of Vanitas had over 5.5 million copies in circulation. [42] [43] Upon its release, the Japanese volumes appeared in charts from Oricon. [44] [45] Critics enjoyed the handling of Vanitas and setting and praised the mix of action, humor and adventure, while at the same time praising his relationship with Noe.