【The Devil in Miss Jonas (Der Teufel in Miss Jonas)】
💀 Vanitas 💀
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- Simon Renard de Saint-André, Vanitas, c. 1660.
2. Adriaen van Utrecht, Vanitas Still Life with Flowers and Skull, 1642.
3. Aelbert Jansz. van der Schoor, Vanitas Still Life, c. 1640–1672.*
4. Hendrick Andriessen, Vanitas Still Life, c. 1650.
5. Follower of Jacques Linard, A vanitas still life with a skull, an hour-glass, a tulip in a glass vase, a shell and butterfly, all resting on a stone ledge, c. 1600–1645.
Elif Batuman is the author of The Possessed and The Idiot.Her work has appeared in The New Yorker,n+1, andHarper’s, among other publications. In 2011, she received the Terry Southern Prize for Humor for her Paris Review Daily piece “My 12-Hour Blind Date, with Dostoevsky.”
* The emoji interpretation in number 3 is courtesy of Lindsay Nordell
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