Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Twelve Skulls (December Special)




Barthel Bruyn - Vanitas Still Life (early 1500s)




Willem Claesz Heda - Vanitas (1628)




Pieter Claesz - Vanitas Still Life (1630)




Harmen Evertz van Steenwyck - An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life (c. 1640)




Harmen Evertz van Steenwyck - Vanitas (1640)




Adriaen van Utrecht - Still Life with Bouquet and Skull (1642)




Simon Renard de Saint-Andre - Vanitas (c. 1650)




Simon Renard de Saint-Andre - Vanitas (mid 1600s)




Simon Renard de Saint-Andre - Vanitas (mid 1600s)




Philippe de Champaigne - Memento Mori (c. 1655)




Franciscus Gysbrechts - Vanitas (late 1600s)




Pieter Gerritsz van Roestraeten - Vanitas Still Life (late 1600s)


Andy Warhol's assistant, Ronnie Cutrone, once remarked that to paint a skull is to do "the portrait of everybody in the world".


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