#vanité

Vanitas head, ivory, 16th - 17th century.

Wax vanitas, Europe, 1701-1800, (science museum; London).

XVIIe century, Germany, ivory.

“Una rosa rosa tra migliaia di margherite bianche emerge; sii così.”

“A pink rose among a thousand of white daisies stands out; be likewise.”

Matshona Dhliwayo

#BeDifferent #DifferentIsBeautiful #Vanité #Vanity #CottonMeetsWords
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Misa - Portugal, 2015

credit : Rodolphe Gauthier

(purchase here : http://shop.solstices-project.com/fr/home/41-rodolphe-gauthier-misa.html?live_configurator_token=0c9bd3001256d9be5ec385b71ab423da&id_shop=1&id_employee=1&theme=&theme_font=)

Jan Sanders van Hemessen,Vanité  (Vanity)

c.1535-1540, oil on wood panel, 90 x 73 cm, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, France

S.W. Forbes, A Sudden Call, or one of the Corporation Summoned from his favorite AMusement, Oct. 21, 1799

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nationalgallery-dk:

Vanitas Still Life, Pieter van der Willigen,National Gallery of Denmark

Gaspard Masery, Le Peintre et la Mort (The Painter and Death) (detail), 1559

MODICUM ITERU MODICU

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Ian Fleming (1908-1964), Goldfinger.

London:Jonathan Cape, 1959. 8c. Half title. Original black cloth, the upper cover with a blind-stamped skull with gold coins as eyes, spine lettered in gilt, dust-jacket prices 15s. netdesigned by Richard Chopping with the same skull with a rose in its mouth on the upper wrapper and 5 reviews on the lower wrapper (one very small chip to head of backstrip of jacket). First edition.

Jacopo Ligozzi, Avarice, 1590, pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with gold on laid paper (National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984.56.1)

Jan Lievens (1607-1674), Vanitas : an old man, half length, in a fur lined coat, holding a skull

Jason Limon,Play With Fire, 2019

I am really sorry, but the uncensored version of this post was immediately flagged. The woman is holding the men’s (soft) penis.

Hans Sebald Beham, Der Tod und das unzüchtige Paar (Death and the lewd couple), 1529

“Mors ultima linea rerum”

harvardfineartslib:

Skeletons have always been popular in art schools. Meet Mr. Skeleton from a 1578 engraving of an Academy of fine arts by Cornelis Cort. Notice that both the skeleton and the cadaver being sketched by students are hung by long ropes from the ceiling. It must have been difficult to concentrate on drawing the former during the active dissection of the latter.

Academy of fine arts
engraving
Cort, Cornelis (1533-before 1578, Flemish), artist
1578
435 x 297 mm.
Dutch

Andy Warhol (1928-1987), Six Skulls, 1976

A carved wood model of a snake and skull, Meui period (late 19th century), signed Dai Nihon Sukeyuki (Izumi Sukeyuki, 1838-1920)

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri, called Guercino (1591-1666), A vanitas still-life with a skull atop a book, an hourglass and two glass vases of flowers

Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988), Untitled (Skull B)

A Sashi Style Stag Antler Netsuke, signed Essai (Hokkyo Sessai, 1820-1879)

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Garlanded bucrania on a frieze from the Samothrace temple complex (known as the Sanctuary of the Great Gods), Arsinoé rotunda

deathandmysticism:

Josef Ferdinand Fromiller, Vanitas, 1722

C.J. Culliford (1817-1893), Egyptian Hall, Maskeline and Cooke’s Marvellous Entertainment