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Charles Allan Gilbert. Charles Allan Gilbert (September 3, 1873 – April 20, 1929), better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator. He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing (a memento mori or vanitas) titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image (or visual pun) in which the scene of a woman admiring ...
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 art which uses symbolism to show 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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The Vandalic War was a conflict fought in North Africa between the forces of the Eastern Roman Empire and the Vandalic Kingdom of Carthage in 533–534. It was the first of Justinian I 's wars of the reconquest of the Western Roman Empire. The Vandals occupied Roman North Africa in the early 5th century and established an independent kingdom there.
Pride is defined by Merriam-Webster as "reasonable self-esteem " or "confidence and satisfaction in oneself". [1] Oxford defines it as "the quality of having an excessively high opinion of oneself or one's own importance." [2] Pride may be related to one's own abilities or achievements, positive characteristics of friends or family, or one's ...
Hendrick Andriessen. Hendrick Andriessen, known as Mancken Heyn ('Limping Henry') [1] (Antwerp, 1607 – Antwerp or Zeeland, 1655) was a Flemish still-life painter. He is known for his vanitas still lifes, which are made up of objects referencing the precariousness of life, and 'smoker' still lifes (the so-called 'toebackjes'), which depict ...
Carel Fonteyn. 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]
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