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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.
" 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.
Vanitas (Latin for vanity) by Léon Bazille Perrault, 1886. Vanity is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. Prior to the 14th century, it did not have such narcissistic undertones, and merely meant futility. [1]
Vanitas (c. 1650–1670) by Mattia Preti. Vanitas is an oil-on-canvas painting executed ca. 1650–1670 by the Italian artist Mattia Preti, now inventory number 9283 in the Uffizi in Florence, for which it was bought in 1951 from a private collection.
Vanitas or The old Coquette. Bernardo Strozzi, named il Cappuccino and il Prete Genovese (c. 1581 – 2 August 1644), was an Italian Baroque painter and engraver. A canvas and fresco artist, his wide subject range included history, allegorical, genre and portrait paintings as well as still lifes.
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Nicolaes van Verendael was baptized in the St. Andrew's Church in Antwerp on 19 February 1640. [4] He trained with his father Willem van Veerendael. [5] He was not formally registered as a pupil at the Antwerp Guild of Saint Luke but was admitted to the Guild as the son of a member in 1657.