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2. Vanities, A New Musical - Wikipedia

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   Vanities, A New Musical is a musical with music and lyrics by David Kirshenbaum and a book by Jack Heifner, based on the book and 1976 play of the same name. The musical premiered Off-Broadway in 2009, after an engagement at the Pasadena Playhouse, California in 2008. A revised version was then staged in the West End in 2016.

3. 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.

4. 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]

5. List of Latin phrases (V) - Wikipedia

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   wine and music gladden the heart: Asterix and Caesar's Gift; it is a variation of "vinum bonum laetificat cor hominis". vinum regum, rex vinorum: the wine of kings, the king of wines: The phrase describes Hungarian Tokaji wine, and is attributed to King Louis XIV of France. viperam sub ala nutricare: a viper nursed at the bosom

6. Allegory of the Vanities of the World - Wikipedia

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   It shows symbols of art (music, sculpture and painting), glory (armour, sabre, bow and arrows), temporal power (Christian or Muslim crowns), spiritual power (tiara and cross), wealth (copper, silver, gold, furs and precious textiles), knowledge (globe and books), all heaped as a pyramid in a ruined palace or church.

7. ‘How The Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales Silence Women’ by ...

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   Kate Bernheimer's collection How a Mother Weaned Her Girl from Fairy Tales is an overt ode to the genre, but, at the same time, a revitalizing force that graces the messiness of girlhood with an ethereal air. "I do think it's something that attracts women who want to turn over and examine the stereotypes and the role of women," Sparks said.