Vanitas
The story
A skull, a guttering candle, and a parchment inscribed "everything passes with death." Painted in 1524 on the back of a portrait of Gertraude von Leutz, this small panel is one of the earliest known still lifes in northern Europe meditating on mortality.
- Artist
- Bartholomaeus Bruyn the Elder
- Year
- 1524
- Period
- Renaissance
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
