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Still life with Chessboard (1630) by Lubin Baugin

We could consider this famous still life as an allegory of hedonism. It features a glass of wine and a piece of bread, an allusion to the pleasures of the table; a score and a six-string mandore, evoking the pleasures of music; a bag, playing cards and a chessboard, an allusion to the passion for gambling; a bunch of carnations, symbolising the ephemeral nature of all earthly beauty; and, finally, two common symbols of vanity, the spherical glass vase containing the flowers and the mirror on the right.

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