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| Keywords: Luca Cambiaso . Vanity of Earthly Love.jpg Artwork creator Luca Cambiaso Vanity of Earthly Love 1570 oil on canvas object history provenanceEvent gift Mr and Mrs Harris Masterson 56 85 New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans Museum of Art This is another allegorical painting concerning the brevity of human life The reclining nude contemplates a skull and a mirror while behind her is an older man who grasps a cupid and an hour glass sic The allegorical interpretation is that Time carries Love away leaving the woman to contemplate old age and death The artist was particularly noted for modeling forms in candlelight Notice that the old man has what appear to be wings suggesting that he is an angel It is God acting through his angel who takes away youth Notice that the skull is held in the left hand What is the object in her right hand I would suggest it is a Christian Bible God takes away youth because that is a thing of the Earth Death in the left hand is also not part of God's plan which is represented by the right-hand photograph of the painting taken 2002-12 PD see below Other versions PD-old-100 Luca Cambiaso Vanity of Earthly Love New Orleans 2002 by Kaihsu Tai Paintings of Vanitas Hourglasses in art Mirrors in paintings Paintings in the New Orleans Museum of Art 1570s paintings in the United States Paintings of nude recumbent females supine Cambiaso Watching in art 16th-century oil on canvas paintings in the United Kingdom People with mirrors in art Paintings of people with skulls Time and Cupid | ||||
