{"id":95793,"date":"2021-06-04T05:44:48","date_gmt":"2021-06-04T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=95793"},"modified":"2021-06-04T09:28:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-04T07:28:38","slug":"vanitas-still-life-1603","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=95793","title":{"rendered":"Vanitas Still Life 1603"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>De Gheyn was a wealthy amateur who is best known as a brilliant draftsman, but he also painted and engraved. This panel is generally considered to be the earliest known independent still-life painting of a vanitas subject, or symbolic depiction of human vanity. The skull, large bubble, cut flowers, and smoking urn refer to the brevity of life, while images floating in the bubble\u2014such as a wheel of torture and a leper\u2019s rattle\u2014refer to human folly. The figures flanking the arch above are Democritus and Heraclitus, the laughing and weeping philosophers of ancient Greece.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.metmuseum.org\/CRDImages\/ep\/original\/DP143209.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/CoK6MRH.jpg \"\/><strong>By Jacques de Gheyn II<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> De Gheyn was a wealthy amateur who is best known as a brilliant draftsman, but he also painted and engraved. This panel is generally considered to be the earliest known independent still-life painting of a vanitas subject, or symbolic depiction of human vanity. The skull, large bubble, cut flowers, and smoking urn refer to the brevity of life, while images floating in the bubble\u2014such as a wheel of torture and a leper\u2019s rattle\u2014refer to human folly. The figures flanking the arch above are Democritus and Heraclitus, the laughing and weeping philosophers of ancient Greece.  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95805,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95793\/revisions\/95805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=95793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=95793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}