Further Reading

Vanitas Paintings

  • Mancoff, Debra N. "Signs of transience; signs of the times." In The Secrets of Art: Uncovering the Mysteries and Messages of Great Works of Art, 150-173. Francis Lincoln, 2021.
  • Eade, Jane. “The Theatre of Death.” Oxford Art Journal 36, no. 1 (2013): 109–25. http://www.jstor.org/stable/43825748.
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Dutch History and Culture

  • Wolf, Norbert. The Golden Age of Dutch and Flemmish Painting. Prestel, 2024.
Wealth and Economics
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Religion
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Banquets
  • Sullivan, Scott A. “A Banquet-Piece with Vanitas Implications.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 8 (1974): 271–82. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152543.
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Vanitas Symbols

General
Bubbles

Roemers

  • Henkes, Harold E., and Julian Henderson. “THE SPUN-STEM ROEMER, A HITHERTO OVERLOOKED ROEMER TYPE: TYPOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND DISTRIBUTION.” Journal of Glass Studies 40 (1998): 89–103. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24190503.
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