Philippe de champagne vanitas definition

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        2. We may define vanitas as being: "a still life painting of symbolic objects that conveys a biblical or christian message about the transience of earthly life.
        3. The picture is a Vanitas.
        4. A vanitas is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death.
        5. The painting is part of the 17th-century genre called Vanitas, which featured symbols of mortality that encouraged reflection on the meaning.

          6. The picture is a Vanitas..

          Vanitas Still Life Painting
          Dutch Stilleven Paintings With Biblical Message


          Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life
          (1640) National Gallery, London.
          By Harmen van Steenwyck, the leading
          exponent of vanitas painting, one of
          the rare types of art associated with
          Protestantism.


          Vanitas (1671) Louvre, Paris.
          By Philippe de Champaigne (1602-74)

          Definition: What is Vanitas Still Life Painting?

          In fine art, the term "still-life painting" (derived from the Dutch word "Stilleven") refers to a general type of painting, typically consisting of an arrangement of inanimate objects laid out on a surface.

          Traditionally, still life artists painted flowers, fruit, game, storage vessels, or kitchen utensils, but today almost any object, or collection of objects, may be included in a still life picture.

          The term "vanitas" describes a specific type of still life picture.

          We may define vanitas as being: "a still life painting of symbol