Vanité - Nature Morte | Sébastien Bonnecroy | 1641 Size:16"x20" In this dramatic and dynamic

In this dramatic and dynamic illustration

The Seamstress and the Angel

while someone holds a banner marked "INRI

24" x 18" Inches = 61 cm x 45

the composition resists clarity

Vanité - Nature Morte | Sébastien Bonnecroy | 1641 Size:16"x20" In this dramatic and dynamicThe Vanitas pictures emerged beginning with the late years of the 15th century. These pictures have a symbolic meaning, as most old paintings in art history: they are a representation of Vanity and also Vainglory (unjustified boasting). It describes through the visual language the meaningless in the efforts of gathering valuable material objects, earthly goods and pursuits and the ephemerality of earthly pleasures: in the middle of the richly depicted