Category:Vanitas

Vanitas: A category of paintings (often, but not always still-lifes) alluding to the futility of life and the transience of earthly joys and possessions. The main vanitas symbol is the skull (standing for death), which is usually combined with other objects symbolizing the certainty of the end of all human existence on earth, such as a burnt-out candle, an empty/toppled cup, or rotten fruit, as well as symbols of wealth (money, regal adornments, jewelry) and sometimes, symbols of the arts and humanities (books, musical instruments), which outlast human life.[1]

vanitas

genre of symbolic work of art

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Q733095 Library of Congress authority ID: sh00000162 Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12175175f NL CR AUT ID: ph1077548 National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007290694705171
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This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.

B

Boy with a Skull by Giovanni Battista Morelli‎ (4 F)

D

Drawings of Vanitas‎ (8 F)

H

Homo Bulla‎ (1 C, 28 F)

P

Paintings of Vanitas‎ (11 C, 49 F)
Carpe Diem, mosaic (from Pompeii)‎ (8 F)
Prints of Vanitas‎ (1 C, 21 F)

Q

Quis evadet‎ (15 F)

S

Sleeping child with skull (Louvre, MR 355)‎ (13 F)

V

Vanitas (Bode-Museum)‎ (6 F)
Vanitas of female head and skull (Wellcome Collection)‎ (21 F)

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Vanitas

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The following 92 files are in this category, out of 92 total.

David Rijckaert (III) - Vanitas interior scene with a scholar.jpg 664 × 900; 196 KB
A female memento mori figure Wellcome L0035768.jpg 1,960 × 3,008; 443 KB
A female memento mori figure Wellcome L0035769.jpg 1,960 × 3,008; 398 KB
A male memento mori figure Wellcome L0035764.jpg 1,960 × 3,008; 416 KB
A male memento mori figure Wellcome L0035765.jpg 1,960 × 3,008; 308 KB
A male memento mori figure Wellcome L0035766.jpg 1,960 × 3,008; 410 KB
Acquigny - Vanité ermitage.jpg 2,518 × 3,738; 7.68 MB
Allisvanity.jpg 1,600 × 2,438; 3.34 MB
AllisvanitySquare.jpg 430 × 440; 61 KB
Altenburg Stift - Veitskapelle 3.jpg 3,976 × 2,656; 6.03 MB
Altenfelden - Epitaph Elepöck 1758 - Detail.jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 1.22 MB
Betrachtungssärglein einfach.jpg 1,178 × 1,767; 1.08 MB
Betrachtungssärglein geschlossen.jpg 1,323 × 882; 575 KB
Betrachtungssärglein.jpg 1,365 × 2,048; 1.34 MB
BlakeMonument StPeter'sChurch Barnstaple Devon.xcf 2,872 × 4,648; 22.1 MB
Boox calmets.jpg 940 × 400; 311 KB
Breitenberg Pfarrkirche - Grabstein 2.jpg 2,724 × 2,632; 4.95 MB
Chilleurs-aux-Bois - château de Chamerolles, promenade des parfums 10.jpg 5,472 × 3,648; 9.9 MB
Church--Matera-Purgatorio-Nuovo.jpg 941 × 1,417; 289 KB
Clevelandart 1961.219.jpg 2,640 × 3,400; 4.77 MB
Cristo niño durmiendo, vanitas - Giovanni Battista Morelli 01.jpg 1,660 × 1,254; 899 KB
Cristo niño durmiendo, vanitas - Giovanni Battista Morelli 02.jpg 1,660 × 1,131; 870 KB
Cristo niño durmiendo, vanitas - Giovanni Battista Morelli 03.jpg 1,255 × 1,808; 1.28 MB
Cristo niño durmiendo, vanitas - Giovanni Battista Morelli 04.jpg 1,250 × 1,089; 1.35 MB
Cristoforo di Bindoccio, Meo di Pero - Wheel of Barlaam; Wheel of Aristotle with the Cardinal Virtues; the Judgement of Solomon - Google Art Project.jpg 3,329 × 4,993; 6.83 MB
Dusaniv (16).jpg 3,264 × 4,928; 1.82 MB
Ellingen Alter Friedhof - Grabstein 2a.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 2.67 MB
Ellingen Alter Friedhof - Grabstein 3a.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 3.93 MB
Ellingen Alter Friedhof - Grabstein 4a.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 4.3 MB
Ellingen Mariahilfkapelle - Heiliger Michael 05.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 4.29 MB
Ellingen Mariahilfkapelle - Totenschädel 1.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 3.72 MB
Ermanno Stroiffi - St Francis in meditation.jpg 1,364 × 1,399; 244 KB
Fera-rosso-fiorentino.jpg 960 × 755; 252 KB
French - Pendant with a Monk and Death - Walters 71461.jpg 1,442 × 1,800; 925 KB
Gil de Ronza - La Muerte 20140703-1.jpg 1,350 × 2,700; 638 KB
Gil de Ronza - La Muerte 20140703-2.jpg 2,147 × 3,000; 1.08 MB
Goltzius 1594 Quis evadet?.jpg 3,200 × 4,243; 2.98 MB
Grabstein Friedhof Seestraße 3.jpg 3,120 × 4,160; 8.5 MB
Vanitas HamburgMuseum 2.jpg 3,561 × 2,374; 2.01 MB
Haslach - Kirche Epitaph 10 Dorfwirth.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 1.65 MB
Ignoto, nicolas brulart, verso con vanitas, 1624 ca..JPG 1,024 × 1,260; 1.36 MB
Jean-Baptiste Frénet, A Vanitas, c. 1856, NGA 120782.jpg 2,218 × 3,000; 4.11 MB
Konstanz-Kirche-3.jpg 1,200 × 1,600; 814 KB
Laurent van der Meulen - Medaillon with vanitas motifs (cropped).jpg 1,277 × 1,547; 792 KB
Laurent van der Meulen - Medaillon with vanitas motifs.jpg 1,277 × 1,544; 792 KB
Laurent van der Meulen - Medaillon with Vanitas symbols (cropped).jpg 1,290 × 1,543; 817 KB
Laurent van der Meulen - Medaillon with Vanitas symbols.jpg 1,336 × 1,600; 818 KB
Life is Short - Don't Waste It Chasing Ghosts.jpg 1,500 × 1,763; 588 KB
Matera purgatorio nuovo face.jpg 1,800 × 3,435; 6.76 MB
Narr nördlingen.jpg 1,885 × 2,724; 1.9 MB
Neufelden - Kirche Kriegner-Epitaph 3.jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 1.34 MB
Oepping Pfarrkirche - Putto 2.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 1.18 MB
Overlijden van pater Bernardus du Hall, objectnr PA 769.tif 1,128 × 896; 1.88 MB
Peter Flötner Vanitas BNM.jpg 2,070 × 1,553; 2.49 MB
Pfarrkirche Gottsdorf - Epitaph Lengfellner 2.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 6.18 MB
Pfarrkirche Gottsdorf - Epitaph Maria Fuchs 2.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 7.19 MB
Pieter Claesz 002.jpg 1,102 × 800; 143 KB
Pieter Steenwijck 001.jpg 618 × 750; 54 KB
Portrait MM.jpg 550 × 663; 146 KB
Prerow Friedhof - Grab Motte 1a.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 6.6 MB
Rastede St. Ulrichs Kirchhof alter Grabstein.jpg 2,854 × 4,288; 6.18 MB
RichardBeaple BarnstapleChurch Devon.JPG 1,946 × 2,522; 3.37 MB
Snapchat-1900239121435021890.jpg 1,440 × 2,560; 1.67 MB
Spagna, vanitas (teschio), 1550 ca.jpg 1,584 × 1,728; 1.76 MB
Speculum Humanae Vitae.jpg 519 × 700; 234 KB
St.Michael - Epitaph Dietrich 2.jpg 2,560 × 1,920; 2.4 MB
Suonatrice di Liuto - Miradori.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 464 KB
Time Is Life, 1080×1920, 154.35 KB.jpg 1,080 × 1,920; 154 KB
Tomás Yepes - Virgen de los desamparados, 1644.jpg 606 × 1,024; 242 KB
Totenkopf Mitra.png 1,815 × 800; 1.93 MB
Vanitas - Flickr - Stiller Beobachter.jpg 5,120 × 3,620; 10.45 MB
Vanitas 20140708.jpg 2,800 × 1,856; 1.16 MB
Vanitas by Niccolò de Simone at Pio Monte della Misericordia (Naples).jpg 1,849 × 2,644; 2.12 MB
Vanitas HamburgMuseum 1.jpg 3,326 × 2,661; 2.16 MB
Vanitas Maria Trost Fernitz Austria-2.jpg 1,362 × 600; 164 KB
Vanitas Maria Trost Fernitz Austria.jpg 2,796 × 1,266; 817 KB
Vanitas met bellen blazend kind, schedel en zandloper, RP-P-OB-47.559.jpg 2,781 × 2,751; 1.19 MB
Vanitas, School of Conrad Meit, side 1, Germany, c. 1525, boxwood - Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University - DSC01037.jpg 3,348 × 4,939; 7.03 MB
Vanitas, School of Conrad Meit, side 2, Germany, c. 1525, boxwood - Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University - DSC01039.jpg 3,408 × 5,359; 7.68 MB
Vanitas-msu-0055-.jpg 5,715 × 3,859; 4.01 MB
Vanitas.jpg 1,623 × 1,465; 417 KB
Vasa - Allegorie der Vergänglichkeit.jpg 1,920 × 2,560; 1.37 MB
Vorderweißenbach Pfarrkirche - Löffler-Epitaph 3a.jpg 3,000 × 4,000; 2.87 MB
Vorderweißenbach Pfarrkirche - Löffler-Epitaph 3b Schädel und Sanduhr.jpg 4,000 × 3,000; 3.1 MB
Vorderweißenbach Pfarrkirche - Löffler-Epitaph 3c Ruine.jpg 2,760 × 4,000; 2.3 MB
Vorderweißenbach Pfarrkirche - Löffler-Epitaph 3d Geborstene Säule.jpg 2,000 × 3,696; 1.48 MB
Wooden memento mori of a woman, Italy Wellcome L0058599.jpg 3,822 × 4,803; 1.81 MB
Wooden memento mori of a woman, Italy Wellcome L0058600.jpg 3,834 × 4,932; 2.14 MB
Wooden memento mori of a woman, Italy Wellcome L0058601.jpg 3,660 × 4,872; 2.26 MB
Workshop of Paolo Veronese - Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - 1947.117 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg 3,000 × 2,261; 2.47 MB
Wuerzburg 071vanitas.jpg 405 × 603; 250 KB
Костел Св.Марка (ракурс 16).JPG 2,560 × 1,920; 2.32 MB

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