Vanistas, Pinar Gules

Vanistas, Pinar Gules

Oil painting reproduction on canvas. Framed picture.

Pieter Claesz Vanitas Date: 1628, Original Size: 24 x 35.9 cm, Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York.

Pieter Claesz, `Vanitas` oil on canvas, 1630.

It is a type of still life that emerged in the Netherlands in the early 17th century. The Latin word means 'nothingness'. In these compositions emphasizing the inevitability of death, the transience of worldly success and pleasures, objects symbolizing the aforementioned concepts are included. In addition to figures, vanitas are usually created with symbols of art, wealth, worldly pleasures, emptiness and transience such as books, maps, musical instruments, money bags, jewellery, glasses, jugs, goblets, skulls, burning candles, hourglasses. Vanitas, which was an independent species around 1550, gained widespread popularity in the 1620s and fell out of favor after 1650.