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Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

The vanity of human life

Jan Brueghel il Giovane

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Royal Museums Turin

Royal Museums Turin

Piazzetta Reale, 1, Turin

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A painting with this subject by Jan Brueghel de Velor and Pieter Paulus Rubens was offered by Jan Brueghel the Younger to the art dealer Cristo Immerseel in 1631 without success. Jan II himself made two copies and the present could be one of them. Probably purchased by Vittorio Amedeo I and arrived in Turin by 1635, the work is characterized by a great iconographic richness: in an interior open on the back with a three-arched loggia, the various elements that recall the concept of vanitas as jewels are added. , books, musical instruments, board games. In the foreground, a cupid holds an image of Christ almost as a warning with respect to the transience of earthly things, while just behind a female figure, not identifiable with certainty but interpreted as Psyche or as an Allegory of Painting, with another putto who is making soap bubbles, raise a lit torch. And the clock relentlessly marks the time that passes.
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Title: The vanity of human life

Author: Jan Brueghel il Giovane

Date: 1631

Technique: Oil on the table

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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