Vanitas Still Life | Anonymous | 1650 Size:14"x11" with the trees rising up

with the trees rising up behind them

It is a grim

Grimshaw transforms an ordinary autumn evening into a moody meditation on solitude

"At The Deathbed" by Edvard Munch

Appreciate the beauty of this piece of art in a classic style

Vanitas Still Life | Anonymous | 1650 Size:14"x11" with the trees rising upThe 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