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Vanitas (noun) means a style of still-life painting from Dutch art of the 1500s and 1600s that reminds the viewer that life does not last forever.

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A style of still-life painting from Dutch art of the 1500s and 1600s that reminds the viewer that life does not last forever.

"In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life." — Holland Cotter, Change and Permanence, Captured by Cameras (2009)

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