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A Moment of Life and Death

Sixteenth and seventeenth century Dutch vanitas paintings weave life and death into a single, still moment

Life is fleeting, and death apparently eternal. Still life paintings that came out of the Netherlands in the late 1500s through the 1700s, known as vanitas, gather symbolic objects of death into a memorialized moment, halting the processes of both … Continue reading

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