Vanitas paintings meditate on:
A. the vanity of the artist.
B. the vanity of the viewer.
C. the fleeting nature of the afterlife.
D. the importance of holding on to happiness.
E. the fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness.
E
Vanitas is Latin for vanity and alludes to the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, a meditation on the "fleeting nature of earthly life and happiness."
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