Vanitas, by School of Conrad Meit (1525, c.)

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Title

Vanitas, by School of Conrad Meit (1525, c.)

Description

"Carefully carved in a highly naturalistic style, this boxwood sculpture presents a moral lesson: while Vanity wears an elaborate dress and holds a mirror to her face, the figure of death is at her back, a reminder that all earthly things shall pass." (Description from Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA,
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/215493?position=4, Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/215493)

Creator

School of Conrad Meit (c. 1480- c. 1550)

Source

Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/215493?position=4

Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/215493

Object Number: BR68.2

Also found in Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Exhibition: The Ivory Mirror:
The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe
https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/2017/ivory-mirror.html#0

Archived in:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200606020242/https://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/exhibitions/2017/ivory-mirror.html

Date

1525, c.

Format

Boxwood sculpture.
Dimensions: 20.1 × 8 × 8 cm

Item Relations

Item: Back to back with Death, by several authors (1500, c.) Is related to This Item

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