Vanitas by MACK

Vanitas:
A still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability.


Holocaust in Vanitas
By Kade Hall

In this picture it may be hard to see the symbol of death, but if you look closely at the glass bottle there is a silhouette of a skeleton on the pendant. This may be representing that the liquid inside the glass bottle is poison.

Baroque Vanitas Portraiture

 By Josh Smiertka

This picture portrays beauty and death which is the textbook definition of the very first vanitas paintings.


Vanitas
By Macky Bucon

Just like the last picture there is beauty and death. You can tell that a picture or a painting has a Vanitas theme by the uses of skulls which is a predominate feature in many of vanitas works.


Vanitas Woman 
By Valerie Ogorodnyk

Another popular form of Vanitas is like the image above, beautiful women peering in the face of death. As you can see the women above is dead by the extreme paleness in her face. The flowers and fruit surrounding the women's body are also symbols of beauty with their bright colors that pop against her pale skin.