Thomas de Groot <tho### [at] degrootorg> wrote:

>
> /Vanitas/ is what this is called.
>

That's a new word to me; I always thought that artistic subjects of this type
were all called 'memento mori', but I see that 'vanitas' is more appropriate for
still-life representations.

and Lionel wrote...
You are right, too many objects in the back, the original painting (from
Philippe de Champaigne) is composed of a bottle with a flower, the skull
and the hourglass...

Based on that painting, I think that your skull could benefit from some phong or
specular highlights, along with subsurface scattering. The skull in that
painting seems to be heavily lacquered, which adds a great deal to its strange
visual appeal.

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