Allegory of Vanity | Antonio de Pereda | 1634 Size:20"x16" the painting captures the classic

the painting captures the classic beauty of this ancient architecture

perhaps symbolizing the pervasive nature of melancholic thoughts

corners and alleyways in the city of Prague – often in the early evening light

Hans Baluschek (9 May 1870 – 28 September 1935) was a German painter

Allegory of Vanity | Antonio de Pereda | 1634 Size:20"x16" the painting captures the classicThe Vanitas pictures emerged beginning with the late years of the 15th century. These pictures have a symbolic meaning, as most old paintings in art history: they are a representation of Vanity and also Vainglory (unjustified boasting). It describes through the visual language the meaningless in the efforts of gathering valuable material objects, earthly goods and pursuits and the ephemerality of earthly pleasures: in the middle of the richly depicted