Original artwork description:

This is an original oil painting. This still life is a vanitas painting, an allegory of the brevity of life. One of the usual symbols that appear in vanitas still life paintings is the skull, which is a striking reminder of the certainty of death. Such a symbol is called a Memento Mori, a Latin phrase meaning “Remember that you will die.”

The beauty and lightness of the Blue Morpho butterfly furthers the brevity of life theme.

The stage is set in a beautiful antique Victorian glass dome.

Without further words from me, I leave "Vanitas Vanitatum, Omnia Vanitas." by Anne Brontë (1820-1849) set the stage:

VANITAS VANITATUM, OMNIA VANITAS.
In all we do, and hear, and see,
Is restless Toil, and Vanity.
While yet the rolling earth abides,
Men come and go like ocean tides;

And ere one generation dies,
Another in its place shall rise;
That, sinking soon into the grave,
Others succeed, like wave on wave;

And as they rise, they pass away.
The sun arises every day,
And hastening onward to the West,
He nightly sinks, but not to rest:
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Note: The painting is fitted in a beautiful Italian frame and It comes ready to hang.

Materials used:

Professional grade oil paint on canvas, varnished for protection.

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