Vanitas Still Life | Anonymous | 1650 Size:A3 Landscape uncanny shadows that heighten the

uncanny shadows that heighten the sense of stillness and enigma

evoking a somber meditation on duty

styled Joseph Wright of Derby

Viewing this as hubris

Vanitas Still Life | Anonymous | 1650 Size:A3 Landscape uncanny shadows that heighten theThe Vanitas pictures emerged beginning with the late years of the 15th century. These pictures have a symbolic meaning, as most old paintings in art history: they are a representation of Vanity and also Vainglory (unjustified boasting). It describes through the visual language the meaningless in the efforts of gathering valuable material objects, earthly goods and pursuits and the ephemerality of earthly pleasures: in the middle of the richly depicted