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Vanity. (skull, Skull). Sculpted Terracotta Vanity, Original Work From The Late XIX
A vanity is an allegorical representation of death, of the passage of time, we find it in the mosaics of Pompeii and throughout antiquity, the pictorial genre very in vogue in the XVIth and XVIIth century will almost disappear in the XVIIIth century, it will be taken up in the works of Cézanne then by the surrealists and throughout the twentieth century.
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