Both the Penitent Magdalena and St. Jerome were often shown with one, and it can be used to represent the vanitas theme.
Pieter Claesz produced a still life of one of these objects next to a quill, and one can be seen above Fortuna's wheel in a mosaic at Pompeii. The blood of Christ washes one of these at Mt. Golgotha in a Fra Angelico painting. The right hand side of Guercino's Et In Arcadia Ego is dominated by one. An artwork that consists of one is named for a phrase the artist's mother said and features (*) 8,601 diamonds embedded on it. Damien Hirst's For the Love of God is a platinum one. Both the Penitent Magdalena and St. Jerome were often shown with one, and it can be used to represent the vanitas theme. Jean de Dinteville and Georges de Selve appear in a painting that has an anamorphic one. For 10 points, name this body part that appears distortedly in The Ambassadors, which reflects one's mortality.
Pieter Claesz produced a still life of one of these objects next to a quill, and one can be seen above Fortuna's wheel in a mosaic at Pompeii.
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