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The Cummer's Vanitas by Jacques De Clauew
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December 1, 20120 comments Print ArticleAnother incredible painting in The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens permanent collection, "Vanitas" by Jacques De Clauew.
A one-of-a-kind piece featured in The Cummer’s permanent collection is Vanitas by Jacques De Clauew. This painting is especially significant, in that it is one of the relatively few works known by Jacques de Claeuw, and is typical of the artist's vanitas still lifes.
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The term vanitas (Latin for “emptiness”) is applied to still life images featuring objects that represent the brevity of life or the emptiness of worldly concerns. De Claeuw’s contemporary public was familiar with such symbolism and would have recognized the partially covered celestial globe as an attribute of astronomy.
The globe, along with a copy of the Amsterdam Waersegger Almanach (1677), a soothsayer’s almanac, refers to man’s inability to accurat