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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.
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.
This painting falls within the genre of the vanitas still life, which Gijsbrechts practised principally until the later 1660s. [6] This genre of still life offers a reflection on the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transience of all earthly goods and pursuits. The term vanitas is derived from the famous line 'Vanitas, Vanitas.
Et omnia Vanitas', in the book of the Ecclesiastes in the bible, which in the King James Version is translated as "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity". [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The worldview behind the vanitas paintings was a Christian understanding of the world as a temporary place of fleeting pleasures and sorrows from which mankind could only escape ...
Vanity is an oil painting by the Italian late Renaissance painter Titian, dated to around 1515 and now held at the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, Germany. History
Vanity: c. 1515: 97 × 81 cm: Alte Pinakothek Violante: c. 1515–1516: 64.5 × 51 cm: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) Lucretia and her Husband (or Tarquin and Lucretia, and possibly by Palma Vecchio) c. 1515–1520: 82 × 68 cm: Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) An Unknown Man in a Black Plumed Hat: c. 1515–1520: 70.5 × 63 cm
On the lower right of the painting are inscribed the words 'Vanitas, Vanitas. Et omnia Vanitas', which refers to the famous line of the Ecclesiastes, which in the Latin version of the bible called the Vulgate 1:2; 12:8 is rendered as Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. In the King James Version it is translated "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity".
The Great Vanity is a 1641 Baroque allegorical still life painting by the Alsatian artist Sebastian Stoskopff.It is on display in the Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame.Its inventory number is MBA 1249 ("MBA" stands for Musée des Beaux-Arts).