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  2. Vanity (1947 film) - Wikipedia

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    Vanity (Italian:Vanità) is a 1947 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Walter Chiari, Liliana Laine and Dina Galli. The film is based on a play by Carlo Bertolazzi. Chiari was awarded a Nastro d'Argento for best debut performance. [1] It was made at the Icet Studios in Milan.

  3. Tu che le vanità - Wikipedia

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    " Tu che le vanità" (French: "Toi qui sus le néant", lit. 'You who knew the emptiness') is an aria for soprano from the first scene of the final act of Verdi 's 1867 opera Don Carlo . It was composed to a French text and later translated into Italian, the language in which it is most well known and most often performed.

  4. Vanity (Titian) - Wikipedia

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    The painting portrays an idealized beautiful woman, a model established in the Venetian school by Titian's master Giorgione with his Laura.She holds an oval mirror with a frame, which reflects some jewels and a maid who is searching in a case.

  5. 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.

  6. Casa di Riposo per Musicisti - Wikipedia

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    The Casa di Riposo per Musicisti (literally 'rest home for musicians') is a home for retired opera singers and musicians in Milan, northern Italy, founded by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (whose statue is in the piazza outside the building) in 1896. The building was designed in the neo-Gothic style by Italian architect, Camillo Boito.

  7. The Vanity Serum - Wikipedia

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    The Vanity Serum (Italian: Il siero della vanità) is a 2004 Italian mystery film directed by Alex Infascelli. It is loosely based on the novel Il libro italiano dei morti by Niccolò Ammaniti . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

  8. Vicky Vanita - Wikipedia

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    She was known for her participation in several Greek movies and television series (Eisai to tairi mou, Sto Para Pente, To Retire).She appeared in the 1968 movie Thiella sto spiti ton anemon and up to 1984 she co-starred in productions such as O trelopenintaris (along with Lambros Konstantaras), Paraggelia (by Pavlos Tassios) and Rebetiko by Costas Ferris.

  9. Bonfire of the vanities - Wikipedia

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    A bonfire of the vanities (Italian: falò delle vanità) is a burning of objects condemned by religious authorities as occasions of sin.The phrase itself usually refers to the bonfire of 7 February 1497, when supporters of the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola collected and burned thousands of objects such as cosmetics, art, and books in the public square of Florence, Italy, on the occasion ...