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Vanitas II: Memento Mori

By Saskia Ozols

Type
Article
Level
Intermediate
Price
Free
Published
2024
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About this lesson

The artist explains how she built a contemporary vanitas still life on panel by combining direct alla prima paint application with veils of translucent glazing, following Flemish oil traditions to encode symbolic memento-mori objects.