The Great Vanity Still-Life
1641 · Musée de l'Oeuvre Notre-Dame, Strasbourg
still-lifeThis vanitas still-life points emphatically towards the vanity of "art, riches, power and daring", as pronounced on the slate hanging in the foreground. The items lined up side by side in doctrinal fashion are presented in relation to death. At the same time, Stoskopff's painting seems to question the declaration on the slate by lending permanence and status to what is fleeting.
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