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The vanity of the artist

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Original – Young Man with a Skull (1626) by Frans Hals; previously considered to be Hamlet holding the skull of Yorick, this is now thought to be a vanitas, a study on the transience of life and the certainty of death. Vanitas was a popular topic with Dutch artists, and the tradition of portraying skulls being held by young boys dates back to the early 16th century.

Reason

Excellent scan of superb picture

Articles in which this image appears

Young Man with a Skull + 7

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Frans Hals

• Support as nominator – SchroCat (talk) 08:20, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Great scan! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 10:23, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
• Support - Out of category of rudimentary paintings. Belonging to adroitly-painted works.____Alborzagros (talk) 13:00, 14 April 2015 (UTC)
• Comment There are a lot of white dots, specially on the lower part. Yann (talk) 12:59, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
  • The vast majority appear to be light reflecting off imperfections in the paint (par for the course for these types of images). A couple (the one on his chin, for instance) are so square that I wonder if they could be hot pixels, but I dare not remove them considering the issues we've had with digitally manipulated paintings before. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:09, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 08:21, 23 April 2015 (UTC)