Usually means: Symbolic still life reflecting mortality.
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  1. vanitas: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. vanitas: Collins English Dictionary
  3. Vanita's, Vanitas, vanitas: Wordnik
  4. vanitas: Wiktionary
  5. vanitas: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. Vanitas (Anaal Nathrakh album), Vanitas (Kingdom Hearts), Vanitas (Macbeth album), Vanitas (disambiguation), Vanitas: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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  1. vanitas: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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▸ noun:  (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Similar:
vertu, verdaille, vainesse, virtu, vertù, vauntery, obit, skeleton at the feast, vernish, vellichor, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Types:
memento mori, skull, watch, candle, book, flower, fruit, pipe, violin, more...

Phrases:
The Case Study of Vanitas, more...

Adjectives:
latin, dutch, century, baroque, sole, traditional



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Similar:
vertu, verdaille, vainesse, virtu, vertù, vauntery, obit, skeleton at the feast, vernish, vellichor, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Types:
memento mori, skull, watch, candle, book, flower, fruit, pipe, violin, more...

Phrases:
The Case Study of Vanitas, more...

Adjectives:
latin, dutch, century, baroque, sole, traditional



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