Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Antonio de Pereda - Allegory of Vanity - Google Art Project.jpg

Allegory of Vanity
Voting period ends on 13 Sep 2014  at 10:20:22 (UTC)


 * Reason:High quality picture, a well executed Vanitas. The Vanitas pictures emerged beginning with the late years of the 15th century. These pictures have a symbolic meaning, as most old paintings in art history: they are a representation of Vanity and also Vainglory (unjustified boasting). It describes through the visual language the meaningless in the efforts of gathering valuable material objects, earthly goods and pursuits and the ephemerality of earthly pleasures: in the middle of the richly depicted pearls, gold, coins and jewels there are sculls. This concept comes from the Latin words of Ecclesiastes, in the earliest translation of the Bible in Latin: Vanitas vanitatum omnia vanitas meaning Vanity of vanities; all is vanity or Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.


 * Articles in which this image appears:Vanitas


 * FP category for this image:Artwork/Paintings
 * Creator:Antonio de Pereda y Salgado


 * Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 10:20, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support - Though for future POTD use I'd want some more information on the painting. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 14:49, 3 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Here (push on details, left upper corner or here, for ex. The portrait shown by the angel is emperor Charles V. Hafspajen (talk) 15:15, 3 September 2014 (UTC)


 * Support - Skulls, cards and money...--Godot13 (talk) 03:28, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support –  SagaciousPhil   -  Chat  07:56, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support How many skulls do you need? I think this angel is a compulsive hoarder. Belle (talk) 17:25, 5 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per nom. Belle, you made me laugh ;) --Muhammad (talk) 08:48, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 10:21, 13 September 2014 (UTC)