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Juan De Valdes Lear Vanitas Analysis

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Analysis of “Vanitas” by Juan de Valdés Leal The sixteenth century brought about many great artists, who painted in the popular style of the time Baroque. The artist and one of his paintings we will be looking at is ‘Vanitas’ by Juan de Valdés Leal (1660). The work currently resides in the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, Connecticut. Son of a Portuguese father, Juan went on to become a painter, artist, stone carver and etcher. The remainder of the immense baroque painters of Seville, Andalusia (which is an autonomous community of Spain), Juan de Valdés Leal was additionally a stone carver and etcher of impressive capacity and was commended as a planner by his counterparts, albeit no structures by him are known. What's more, he composed on craftsmanship, however none of his compositions is surviving. Except for uncommon representations, his works of art are altogether religious. The visual energy of his style mirrors his religious intensity. Vanitas paintings are works of art that are worried with the delicacy of man and his universe of yearnings and joys despite the certainty and …show more content…

One topic is the mix of materialistic items and the things that humanity looks for after to 'finish their life'. The second topic recommends the progression of time. The solidarity of the materialistic subject is refined through the gathering of materialistic protests, for example, riches (coins), learning (books), and influence through such things as accumulation of riches, books to grant information, and crown/staff indicating power. While, the outline of passing time is represented by the pocket watch, sundial, a graph of the death of seasons, and a skull, which speaks to death. Vanitas is bound together by the utilization of earth tone colors; in shades of red, dark, beige, and ochre. Because of this color palette along with the dark colors in the painting, there is an antique feel to the

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