Warning against vanity, Pieter Nolpe, 1640 print Vanity sits on a chair and plays a lute. She is wearing rich clothing and sits next to a mirror. A young woman is taken away from the vanity by an angel. Illustration with a text from the book Christelycke Offerande from 1640. The text warns for the vanity. Amsterdam paper engraving / letterpress printing (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). Angels. lute, and special form of lute, : theorbo

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