vanitas o vanitas

Ever present in history and worldwide is the icon of the skull. It is not the only Vanitas symbol but it is the primary one. This site explores found, accidental, supposed and constructed images of Vanitas, primarily the skull, as a symbol of both the eternal and the ephemeral.

Monday, March 30, 2015

skulls on a shelf

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bad luck in The Garden skeleton

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Tree shrew skull

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Richard 111 skull

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Saturday, March 28, 2015

studio skull

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spruce

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smoke

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amity

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mesa

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White tees

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mariachi skull

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cop art skeleton

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BAY AREA skull

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children's book skull

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skull info...now you know

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Friday, March 27, 2015

engraving of a skeleton and six other things

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skull engraving

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use of skull engraving

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Thursday, March 26, 2015

FAMILY TREE OF MAN skulls

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Mexican mural with skull

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Gods of the Modern World

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Wednesday, March 25, 2015

standing skeleton

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diagram of a skull

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shop skull

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Tuesday, March 24, 2015

skull woman & the Right Team

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skull from eggs

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standard skull

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Monday, March 23, 2015

TOPAZ skull

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newspaper skull #118

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newspaper skull #119

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skull in the Country

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Nada's Skull

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t-shirt again

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Fox Skull

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Abstract skull

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Hamburger skull

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POLICE skull

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All night !!! skull

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Anita Steckel's skull

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Thursday, March 19, 2015

skull with big ears

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bicycle repair kit skull

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library skeleton atop the World

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The Archbishop and Death

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The Lady and Death

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Tarrawarra 2013

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T shirts again

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Woe! woe! inhabitants of Earth...

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skull illustration

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

wall canvas

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newspaper skulls...Austrian I think

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