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I love the Heda painting. Goes with the melancholy theme of this week's reading. And the reflections in the painting are wonderful artistry.

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His still lifes are fantastic and as great as everything is arranged and beautiful, at the same time there is almost always a moment depicted where something unexpected has happened. Cups overturned, a quick departure. The idyll broken

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I think that genre is called "Vanitas," where a scene of plenty contains a reminder that plenty is always fleeting.

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