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Art history

still-life painting whose objects, such as skulls, candles and flowers, remind the viewer of the brevity of life and vanity of worldly things.

In art history, vanitas refers to still-life painting whose objects, such as skulls, candles and flowers, remind the viewer of the brevity of life and vanity of worldly things. This meaning comes from Bergstrom (1956) in Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century.[1]

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  1. Bergstrom, I. (1956). Dutch still-life painting in the seventeenth century. Faber. ISBN 9780878172795

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