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vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas: vanity of vanities; everything [is] vanity: Or more simply: "vanity, vanity, everything vanity". From the Vulgate, Ecclesiastes 1:2;12:8. vaticinium ex eventu: prophecy from the event: A purported prediction stated as if it was made before the event it describes, while in fact being made thereafter. vel non: or not
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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.
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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]
Anaal Nathrakh released their sixth full-length album, Passion, in 2011, [14] and their seventh, Vanitas, in 2012. The band finished recording for their eighth full-length album, Desideratum, in February 2014, and released the album on 28 October 2014. [15]
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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 ...