1. The first goal was to terminate the corruption within the Catholic hierarchy such as money, celibacy issues and political misuse among others. Erasmus, Luther and others wanted to wipe out or at least cut down the corruption and misuse of power by the church officials in order to attain the trust of the people. The second goal was that the church desired to re-clarify the doctrines of the Catholic faith. The church had to answer to the claims from the Christian humanists and Protestant Reformers that raised many theological issues concerning a lot of the most essential doctrines of the Catholic faith. Finally, the church wanted to retrieve as many of the people, cities and regions that was lost to Protestantism throughout Europe. One of
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Vanitas is a type of still life paintings that was started in the 17th century by Dutch artists. The Dutch were known for its symbolism that was used heavily in paintings. Vanitas paintings illustrated the transience of life and the vanity of human activity. The items of the 17th century Dutch still life constantly symbolize the briefness of life and the wealth and comfort of worldly objects. By examining the many Dutch paintings, there is usually over-ripe fruit, oftentimes a lemon or other citrus fruit, which represents the sweet and sour of life but as well the temporary nature of life. Numerous flowers in the pieces further symbolizes the fragile nature of life. Life ends too, like flowers and fruit. Skulls are dominant in the 17th century Dutch art as well, repeating the symbolizing of our brief existence here on earth or just a reminder of what was left behind. Extinguished candles and timepieces also are used to symbolize and suggest to us that our lives will cease all too soon. We remember here of the cliché, “time flies.” While vanitas paintings point out our mortality, they also emphasizes the vanity in human activity. Many of the food in a still life can be an indication of richness and wealth but at the same time has the twice the meaning of the vanitas. Food doesn’t last always, as life doesn’t. Other symbols of riches and luxury are wine and the goblets from which it’s drank from. Repeated they are used to display earthly pleasures. The final examination of the vanitas paintings combines and compare the two meanings interpreted here. The paintings are moralizing. First the temporary nature of life is portrayed but then we are recall that the earthly pleasures shouldn’t be valuable. The pronk symbols are indications that earthly, material things are not essential and the vanitas symbols deliver hope for an eternal afterlife. Vanitas paintings were believed to encourage viewers to dislike from the delights of earthly material possessions and to
Vanitas is a type of still life paintings that was started in the 17th century by Dutch artists. The Dutch were known for its symbolism that was used heavily in paintings. Vanitas paintings illustrated the transience of life and the vanity of human activity. The items of the 17th century Dutch still life constantly symbolize the briefness of life and the wealth and comfort of worldly objects. By examining the many Dutch paintings, there is usually over-ripe fruit, oftentimes a lemon or other citrus fruit, which represents the sweet and sour of life but as well the temporary nature of life. Numerous flowers in the pieces further symbolizes the fragile nature of life. Life ends too, like flowers and fruit. Skulls are dominant in the 17th century Dutch art as well, repeating the symbolizing of our brief existence here on earth or just a reminder of what was left behind. Extinguished candles and timepieces also are used to symbolize and suggest to us that our lives will cease all too soon. We remember here of the cliché, “time flies.” While vanitas paintings point out our mortality, they also emphasizes the vanity in human activity. Many of the food in a still life can be an indication of richness and wealth but at the same time has the twice the meaning of the vanitas. Food doesn’t last always, as life doesn’t. Other symbols of riches and luxury are wine and the goblets from which it’s drank from. Repeated they are used to display earthly pleasures. The final examination of the vanitas paintings combines and compare the two meanings interpreted here. The paintings are moralizing. First the temporary nature of life is portrayed but then we are recall that the earthly pleasures shouldn’t be valuable. The pronk symbols are indications that earthly, material things are not essential and the vanitas symbols deliver hope for an eternal afterlife. Vanitas paintings were believed to encourage viewers to dislike from the delights of earthly material possessions and to