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Part 1 Art History Question: Examine Steenwyck's Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life, 1621, (Illustration Book, Colour Plate 10) Write an account of this painting, paying attention to the organisation of the pictorial space and how the artist has created a three-dimensional effect through the use of perspective and modelling. Consider, also, how tone, colour, lighting and brushwork are used to portray the objects in the picture. In the painting, An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life, the artist has created a three-dimensional effect through the use of perspective and modeling. He uses different colours, a wide tonal range, lighting and intricate brushwork to portray the objects in the picture. The artist makes use of one half of the pictorial space as the foreground and the other half as background. On the foreground, there is a table and some objects are grouped on the table on the viewer's right....

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