Talk:Vanitas

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 * This entire article needs to be redirected and rewritten. Vanitas is a large theme that dove tails with memento mora and can be found in works of art from ancient to contemporary times. Vanitas STILL LIFE is one important example, but is a subcategory, not the definition of Vanitas. Krisdoor (talk) 17:51, 4 April 2024 (UTC)

Untitled
What's the difference between Dutch and Netherlands? If these painters are Dutch, they are from the Netherlands and vice versa. --Leo44 | Talk 23:40, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
 * It should be flanders & the netherlands imo

THIS PAGE IS A STUB!
It has 1.1 sections and would be a stub if the ten-word see also section was moved into the section entitled Vanitas, which is a sub-section of the main article on....er....vanitas. Longer please, I need it for my art homework! Also, transience, ephemeral nature and brevity mean the same thing.80.41.96.217 (talk) 15:14, 16 November 2008 (UTC)

Latin isn't the original language of Ecclesiastes
Currently, the article says:


 * "Ecclesiastes 1:2 from the Bible is often quoted in conjunction with this term. From the Vulgate Bible, we get Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas. This is translated to Vanity of vanities; all is vanity by the King James Version of the Bible, and Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless. by the New International Version of the Bible."

This sort of implies that the Latin is the original rather than another translation.

Maybe a better way of putting it?

A Christian art form that flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries featured paintings of common objects of beauty: a vase of flowers, a mandolin, a sideboard with fruit.

Tucked somewhere in the paintings would be the two reminders of the passing nature of human existence: a skull and an hourglass. These paintings were called vanitas art. This word ‘vanitas’ comes from the passage in Ecclesiastes: ‘Vanity of vanities; all is vanity…One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh’ (Ecclesiastes 1:2-4).

Now the symbols of the skull and the hourglass weren’t intended to foster gloom; they were just a reminder that every possession and achievement we have is temporal, therefore not worthy of our heart’s devotion. They were to prepare us for that moment when we meet God, the meaning and value of our lives weighed, and our eternal rewards given. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.58.94.212 (talk) 15:05, 7 September 2009 (UTC)

Vanitas does not show up in any online translation, so it must e false —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.18.138.120 (talk) 19:06, 17 October 2009 (UTC)

Major edit needed
This page is a stub the information is lacking and so is the introduction of this article.Please fix it or give it the right rathing either way this page should get more attention.--MartianH (talk) 08:56, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Art editors! ALERT!
Greetings! I was wondering if any of you vanitas -art editors were interested to help to provide a a better description for this Wikipedia Commons art piece: ? Is it a vanitas style of Mary Magdalane piece of art? Thanks in advance! :) Jayaguru-Shishya (talk) 23:40, 16 July 2014 (UTC)

File:Antonio de Pereda - Allegory of Vanity - Google Art Project.jpg to appear as POTD soon
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Antonio de Pereda - Allegory of Vanity - Google Art Project.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on January 23, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-01-23. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:31, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Vanitas vanitatum
Can a definition of vanitas vanitatum be added to this article? The term redirects here, and works with the title are mentioned here, but someone who comes across the term in another context and searches for it to find out its meaning is currently left none the wiser. – Arms & Hearts (talk) 17:41, 9 April 2023 (UTC)

Pirates of the Caribbean Ride at Disneyland
Is there any justification in adding the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland as a kinda simple man's example of Vanitas. The skeletons of pirates resting in bed with cups full of jewels always struck me as very poignant as a child and I think the creators of the ride may have been paying respect to this concept. 24.6.27.224 (talk) 00:24, 26 April 2024 (UTC)