thegetty: All is vanityA large skeleton stretches out on its back with hands raised in prayer. An ow
thegetty:All is vanityA large skeleton stretches out on its back with hands raised in prayer. An owl perches on a winged hourglass, a snake coils round a funeral torch, and a crow takes off in flight. Arranged on a staircase, human skulls sport the tiaras and crowns of temporal and spiritual powers. Wealth and power are condemned, but so are the arts and the sciences, whose instruments accompany the corpse.Vanitas with Skeleton: Death Is the Wages of Sin, ca. 1680, Michel Mosin. Engraving. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie, Réserve AA-5 (Mosin, Michel). Photo credit: BnFOn view in A Kingdom of Images: French Prints in the Age of Louis XIV, 1660–1715 at the Getty Research Institute. -- source link
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