vanitas

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A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
> An image that invites viewers to contemplate their own mortality Skulls, time-pieces, bubbles, flowers and other such symbols are all used as metaphors for the transience of time This is a genre that is specifically associated with Northern 16th-17th century art
A kind of still life painting designed to remind us of the vanity, or frivolous quality, of human existence
A painting (or element in painting) that acts as a reminder of the inevitabiliry of death, and the pointlessness of earthly ambitions and achievements Common vanitas-symbols include skulls, guttering candles, hour-glasses and clocks, overturned vessels, and even flowers (which will soon fade) The vanitas theme became popular during the Baroque, with the vanitas still life flourishing in Dutch art