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)
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
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
Dimensions: 20.1 × 8 × 8 cm
Item Relations
Item: Back to back with Death, by several authors (1500, c.) | Is related to | This Item |
Comments