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Meaning of vánitas by John Rene Plaut





John Rene Plaut

vánitas
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VNITAS of the Latin expression vanitas vanitatum , et omnia vanitas , of the Ecclesiastes ( 1 , 2 ), which means vanity of vanities, everything is vanity; subgenre of still life, which is imbued with symbolisms and allegories and which highlights the reality of death as an inexorable destiny, usually based on the representation of skulls, but also, sometimes, skeletons. It is used in feminine and without accent, the vain.

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