Allegory of Vanity | Antonio de Pereda | 1634 Size:20"x16" perhaps symbolizing the pervasive nature

perhaps symbolizing the pervasive nature of melancholic thoughts

Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 – 28 September 1935) was a German painter

Jongkind's most frequent subject was the marine landscape

the painting captures the classic beauty of this ancient architecture

their bodies and faces are completely obscured by their draped robes

Allegory of Vanity | Antonio de Pereda | 1634 Size:20"x16" perhaps symbolizing the pervasive natureThe 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