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WorksheetsVanitas Painting
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 19mins
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 (a) . (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
