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/ˈvæn.ɪˌtɑs/ · noun
(painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries..
In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.
Use vanitas when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Vanitas means (painting) A type of still life painting, symbolic of mortality, characteristic of Dutch painting of the 16th and 17th centuries..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In her straight-ahead photographs of storefronts, an arrangement of shoes or shrink-wrapped furniture becomes a vanitas still life.
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