Transience, Heinrich Aldegrever, After Albrecht Dürer, 1529 print Imagination of transience. A naked woman, seen from the side, standing by a grave, in her left hand an hourglass and a canvas, a fruit in her right. At the open grave are a skull, a shovel and a sphere with the spell respice finem (think about the end). Germany paper engraving (Personifications of) 'Vanitas', The Vanity of Human Life; Humana fragility, fleeting of sizes & of world glory, meditation of death, vain work, vain pleasure, vain glory, vanita (Ripa). Hourglass. Skull as symbol of 'Vanitas'

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