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  1. Simon Renard de Saint-Andr\u00e9,\u00a0Vanitas,\u00a0<\/em>c. 1660.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    2. Adriaen van Utrecht, Vanitas<\/em>\u00a0Still Life with Flowers and Skull<\/em>, 1642.
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    3. Aelbert Jansz. van der Schoor, Vanitas Still Life<\/em>, c. 1640\u20131672.*
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    4. Hendrick\u00a0Andriessen,\u00a0Vanitas Still Life<\/em>, c. 1650.
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    5. Follower of Jacques Linard,\u00a0A vanitas still life with a skull, an hour-glass, a tulip in a glass vase, a shell and butterfly, all resting on a stone ledge, <\/em>c. 1600\u20131645.
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    Elif Batuman is the author of<\/em>\u00a0The\u00a0Possessed\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em>The Idiot. Her work has appeared in <\/em>The New Yorker,<\/em> n+1, and<\/em> Harper\u2019s, among other publications.\u00a0In 2011, she received\u00a0the Terry Southern Prize for Humor for her\u00a0<\/em>Paris Review Daily\u00a0piece \u201cMy 12-Hour Blind Date, with Dostoevsky<\/a>.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

    * The emoji interpretation in number 3 is courtesy of\u00a0Lindsay Nordell<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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