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Vanitas Painting

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 19mins

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Class
Date
1.

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

a)

Italy

b)

Germany

c)

The Netherlands

d)

France

2.

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

3.

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

a)

memento mori

b)

vanitas painting

c)

still life

4.

A skull was meant to be a symbol for _________.

a)

life

b)

death

c)

vanity

d)

brevity

5.

An hourglass is a symbol for

a)

wealth

b)

vanity

c)

time

d)

infinity

6.

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.

a)

still life

b)

vanitas

c)

memento mori

d)

pronkstilleven

7.

This still life includes a ______________

a)

pronkstilleven

b)

quarry

c)

hourglass

8.

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

a)

quarry

b)

pronkstilleven

c)

Goedemorgen

d)

Tot ziens

9.

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

a)

rose

b)

poppy

c)

tulip

d)

lily

10.

Bubbles in Vanitas paintings were a symbol for what?

a)

Wealth and Luxury

b)

Brevity and Fragility of Life

c)

Immortality

d)

Vain and Empty Human Pursuits