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Allegory of vanity, c 18th century. This is a wax model of a female head depicting life and death. The head is mounted on a base which has an inscription attached: ‘Vanitas Vanitatum & omia Vanitas Ecc: Cap i/V2’. This is from the Bible, Ecclesiastes, chap 1, verse 2, which is translated in full in the New English Bible as "Emptiness, emptiness, says the speaker, emptiness, all is empty".
Location
Science Museum/London/Great Britain
Unique Identifier
ART396680
Type
Image
Purpose
Public
Size
2941px × 3504px
Photo Credit
SSPL/Science Museum / Art Resource, NY
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18th century CE
Female
Hand, Anatomy
Head
Inscription
Model, Three Dimensional
Sculpture
Snail
Spider
Vanity (Vanitas)
Wax
Woman