To be, or not to be: four hundred years of vanitas painting

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Holland's golden age and the background to vanitas

II. The sources and appeal of vanitas

III. Types of vanitas symbols

IV. Development of vanitas paintings

V. Eighteenth century decline and nineteenth century rediscovery

VI. The twentieth century and after: the fears become real again

Exhibition catalogue

Bibliography-General

Bibliography-Specific works.