vanitas painting
(en)
a still life that 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; most notable during the 16th/17th centuries in Flanders and the Netherlands
The still life with lobster by Abraham van Beyeren is supposed to be a vanitas painting because of the pocket watch
defined as "about the futility of human cravings, aspirations, and attachments in the face of the transience of all things"
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7 years, 5 months ago