In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. The Latin word means `vanity` and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of a.....
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(from the article `Valdés Leal, Juan de Nisa`) ...forms, and brilliant colouring. Influenced in this period both by Sevilla painters and by Herrera the Younger and Madrid painters, Valdés Leal ...
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in art, a genre of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. A vanitas painting contains collections of ...
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a theme in paintings that emerged in the 1600s in Holland featuring symbolic representations of the fleeting nature of life and a reminder that spiritual redemption should be at the center of a person’s life. A typical symbol in a vanitas painting would be the human skull, but other symbols, such as a disordered pile of dishes or books, hint at t...
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