ALL meanings of vanitas
van·i·tas
V v - noun vanitas a type of still-life painting that flourished in the Netherlands from about 1620 to 1650, conveying a religious message and characterized by objects symbolic of mortality and the meaninglessness of worldly pleasures. 1
- noun vanitas a work of art containing symbols of mortality or the impermanence of material things; esp., a 17th-cent. Dutch painting of this kind 0
- adjective vanitas of or relating to this genre 0
- noun vanitas (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. 0
- noun vanitas a type of Dutch symbolic still life painting common in the 16th and 17th centuries 0
- noun vanitas vanity; futility 0