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What is vanitas? in Cultural Arts I

What is vanitas? in Cultural Arts I
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  • A vanitas painting contains collections of objects symbolic of the inevitability of death and the transience and vanity of earthly achievements and pleasures; it exhorts the viewer to consider mortality and to repent
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