fang11803:
cleverness:
medievalpoc:
David Bailly
Vanitas with Portrait
Netherlands (ca. 1650)
Oil on canvas
37 ¼ x 45 ¾ in. (95 x 116 cm)
Vanitas- Latin for vanity, refers to a type of still life consisting of a collection of objects that symbolize death; the brevity of human life and the transience of earthly pleasures and achievements (e.g., a human skull, a mirror, and broken pottery).
Such paintings were particularly popular in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, especially in the Netherlands
I’m curious, do the bubbles symbolize death as well?
I imagine they would, since they’re so fragile and eventually pop on their own.
Soap bubbles definitely represent the brevity of human existence in this context. ;)
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