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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.
for example: Literally, "for the sake of a word". Verbum Dei: Word of God: See religious text. Verbum Domini lucerna pedibus nostris: The word of the Lord [is] a light for our feet: Motto of the University of Groningen: verbum Domini manet in aeternum (VDMA) the word of the Lord endures forever: Motto of the Lutheran Reformation: verb. sap ...
The painting is an example of the Dutch vanitas genre and an example of Dutch realism. The painting was privately owned until it was purchased by the Rijksmuseum in 1963. For many years experts thought it was the work of Rembrandt. The still life includes ledgers (books), a pewter jug, and pewter plate.
An example of a vanitas still life by Fonteyn is the Vanitas still life with flowers, a skull, hourglass, conch shell and silver jug on a partially draped table (signed and indistinctly dated lower centre on the parchment: Nicolaes van verendael / anno 1680, sold at Sotheby's on 7–10 December 2016 in London lot 20 as by Nicolaes van Verendael ...
An example of a vanitas still life by Veerendael is the Vanitas with skulls (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen). The painting shows similarities with another vanitas work called Vanitas still life with a bunch of flowers, a candle, smoking implements and a skull in the Galleria Franchetti at the Ca' d'Oro, Venice dated
The objects usually imply a vanitas meaning as they evoke the transience and emptiness of wealth and earthly glory and point to the inevitable extinction of each human life. Vanitas still life. An example is the Vanitas still life at the Royal Collection Trust. It includes several objects that invoke the vanitas meaning: a skull, a glass orb ...
A typical vanitas still life by van der Meulen is the Vanitas still life with a skull, a guttering candle, a tortoiseshell mirror, a book, a statuette of saint Susanna, and a pack of cards (Sotheby's sale of 10 May 2019, London, lot 287). It contains many of the typical symbols of vanitas paintings.
Other Flemish still life artists were also producing vanitas still lifes on the death of King Charles I for the Dutch market. An example is the Vanitas still life with a poem on the death of Charles I by Godfriedt van Bochoutt (signed and dated 1668, at Bonhams auction of 23 October 2019, London lot 67TP. [15]