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vanitasnoun
A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Vanitas
A vanitas (Latin for 'vanity') is a symbolic work of art showing the transience of life, the futility of pleasure, and the certainty of death, often contrasting symbols of wealth and symbols of ephemerality and death. Best-known are vanitas still lifes, a common genre in the Low Countries of the 16th and 17th centuries; they have also been created at other times and in other media and genres.
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Vanitas
In the arts, vanitas is a type of symbolic work of art especially associated with still life painting in Flanders and the Netherlands in the 16th and 17th centuries, though also common in other places and periods. The Latin word means "vanity" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of all earthly goods and pursuits. Ecclesiastes 1:2 from the Bible is often quoted in conjunction with this term. The Vulgate renders the verse as Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. The verse is translated as Vanity of vanities; all is vanity by the King James Version of the Bible. Vanity is used here in its older sense of "futility". Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless is the rendering by The New International Version of the Bible.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Vanitas in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Vanitas in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5
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