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  2. Vanitas - Wikipedia

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    Vanitas art is an allegorical art representing a higher ideal or containing hidden meanings. [5] Vanitas are very formulaic and they use literary and traditional symbols to convey mortality. Vanitas often have a message that is rooted in religion or the Christian Bible. [6] In the 17th century, the vanitas genre was popular among Dutch painters.

  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. Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts - Wikipedia

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    Trompe l'oeil with studio wall and vanitas still life. Approximately 70 works by Gijsbrechts are known. Gijsbrechts was a painter of still lifes. He almost exclusively painted trompe-l'œil and vanitas paintings which were popular around the second half of the 17th century. Early in his career he produced pure vanitas paintings later switching ...

  5. Still life paintings from the Netherlands, 1550–1720 - Wikipedia

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    The catalog included detailed discussions of 80 paintings from various collection holders, that together give an overview of the best genres in Dutch still-life paintings, namely kitchen piece (keukenstuk), fruit still-life, (fruitstuk), floral still-life (blommetje), breakfast piece (ontbijtje), vanitas, hunting piece (jaagstuk), and show ...

  6. 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 ...

  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 ...

  8. Christian von Thum - Wikipedia

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    Christian von Thum or Christian von Thum (I) [1] (Kalmar, c. 1625 – Stockholm, 12 August 1686) was a Swedish innkeeper, still life painter, decorative painter, set painter, copyist and art agent. [2] His known works include vanitas still lifes and still lifes with foodstuffs, paintings of hermits and religious paintings. [2]

  9. Clara Peeters - Wikipedia

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    Vanitas painting by Clara Peeters, c. 1610, deemed to be a self-portrait.. Clara Peeters (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈklaːraː ˈpeːtərs]; fl. 1607–1621) was a Flemish still-life painter from Antwerp who worked in both the Spanish Netherlands and Dutch Republic.

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