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Questões de Vida e de Morte


"A capacidade de transmitir mensagens morais profundas revelada pelas naturezas-mortas é particularmente evidente nas imagens de Vanitas - termo derivado da... citação bíblica «Vaidade das vaidades, tudo é vaidade» (Eclesiastes 1:2)-, constituindo, em diferentes culturas religiosas, reflexões sobre o estado da alma do observador..."

Peter Cherry, A Perspectiva das Coisas : A Natureza-Morta na Europa, Séculos XVII-XVIII; Exposição internacional sobre o tema da Pintura de Natureza-Morta na Europa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2010

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