Vanitas Painting

This week we looked at several still lifes, which North Western European country to they come from?

• Italy

• Germany

• The Netherlands

• France

A memento mori is an object serving as a warning or reminder of _________________. (one word)

Which is "a still-life painting of a 17th-century Dutch genre containing symbols of death or change as a reminder of their inevitability"

• memento mori

• vanitas painting

• still life

A skull was meant to be a symbol for _________.

• life

• death

• vanity

• brevity

An hourglass is a symbol for

• wealth

• vanity

• time

• infinity

a painting or drawing of an arrangement of objects, typically including fruit and flowers and objects contrasting with these in texture, such as bowls and glassware.

• still life

• vanitas

• memento mori

• pronkstilleven

This still life includes a ______________

• pronkstilleven

• quarry

• hourglass

What is the dutch word for ostentatious (over the top/luxurious) still life?

• quarry

• pronkstilleven

• Goedemorgen

• Tot ziens

Which type of flower, according to lecture, were common in Dutch still life paintings and are known as the unofficial flower of the Netherlands?

• rose

• poppy

• tulip

• lily

Bubbles in Vanitas paintings were a symbol for what?

• Wealth and Luxury

• Brevity and Fragility of Life

• Immortality

• Vain and Empty Human Pursuits