Le 20/03/2014 17:35, Le_Forgeron a écrit :
> Usually, there is also a candle nearby the skull of a vanitas.
> (well, the hour glass is probably the modern version)

Philippe de Champaigne lived in the 17th century, not so modern. Many 
objects were used to represent vanitas - candles, hourglass were the 
expression of the time which pass on humans lifes, of their fugitive lifes.
I have seen some candles in modern vanitas (Bernard Buffet for example).
And the soft watches of Dali have maybe the same meaning. (But too hard 
to make with Pov for me actually...)

Lionel.

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