Artist: Bernardino Montañés Pérez
Museum: Museo de Huesca (Huesca, Spain)
Technique: Oil On Canvas
This remarkable painting by Bernardino Montañés from 1891 is an allegory for life and death in which the artist plays with appearance and reality, and experiments with visual effects. This piece is influenced by the Baroque vanitas movement or genre, which emphasizes the emptiness of life and the importance of death as the end of all earthly pleasures. As the Bible says, in Ecclesiastes 1:2,
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