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AP Art History

Category - Early Europe and Colonial Americas

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Which of the following is a type of still life painting that stresses the folly of human vanity and how short human life truly is?

Allegory
Vanitas
Baldacchino
Impasto

Explanation

Answer: B - Vanitas is a theme in still life paintings that stresses the folly of human vanity and how short human life truly is.

Key Takeaway: Vanitas is a symbolic theme of art that is generally associated with paintings in Northern Europe (particularly the Netherlands and Flanders) in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In vanitas painting, the emptiness and meaninglessness of earthly life is emphasized, as it leads to vanity.

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