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Vanitas Still Life
An allegory of the transience of human existence and the vanity of ambition, art and worldly knowledge, this painting combines a variety of symbolic motifs alluding to the inexorable passage of time - skulls and bones, an hourglass, books and precious objects. As moral and religious metaphors, the objects exhort the viewer to moderation in the enjoyment of earthly possessions and pleasures. The ar…
Creator
- Okänd
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Creator
- Okänd
Type of item
- Visual arts
- paintings (visual works)
- http://udcdata.info/065280
- Visual Works (hierarchy name)
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
Rights
- Nationalmuseum, Sweden
Creation date
- 1600/1699
- 1600/1699
Provenance
- Purchase 1971
Identifier
- NM 6367
- 23416
Extent
- Mått 85 x 106,5 cm
Format
- Oil on canvas
- Oil painting
Providing country
- Sweden
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2017-01-11T14:09:32.478Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2017-01-11T14:27:05.013Z