Philippe de champagne vanitas definition
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Philippe de champagne vanitas definition
Vanitas Still Life Painting
Dutch Stilleven Paintings With Biblical Message
Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life
(1640) National Gallery, London.
By Harmen van Steenwyck, the leading
exponent of vanitas painting, one of
the rare types of art associated with
Protestantism.
Vanitas (1671) Louvre, Paris.
By Philippe de Champaigne (1602-74)
Definition: What is Vanitas Still Life Painting?
In fine art, the term "still-life painting" (derived from the Dutch word "Stilleven") refers to a general type of painting, typically consisting of an arrangement of inanimate objects laid out on a surface.
Traditionally, still life artists painted flowers, fruit, game, storage vessels, or kitchen utensils, but today almost any object, or collection of objects, may be included in a still life picture.
The term "vanitas" describes a specific type of still life picture.
We may define vanitas as being: "a still life painting of symbol