# Allegory of Transience [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VOS, Cornelis de]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 190 x 194 cm ## Commentary The stylistic developments of Cornelis de Vos's history pictures in the 1620s was completely in line with general changes in style and taste in contemporary Antwerp painting. His compositions, such as the Allegory of Transience, are notable both for their relief-like appearance in which a few monumental figures are represented in front of an architectural background, and for the increased attention given to the variety of poses and the animation of the facial expressions of the characters. These characters still retain the rather static and strongly plastic character seen in his earliest paintings. ## Related artworks - [Abraham Grapheus]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Apollo and the Python]() - [Birth of Venus]() - [Card Players]() - [Elisabeth \(or Cornelia\) Vekemans as a Young Girl]() - [Family Portrait]() - [Magdalena and Jan-Baptist de Vos]() - [Players and Courtesans under a Tent]() - [Portrait of a Boy]() - [Portrait of a Girl at the Age of 10]() - [Portrait of a Lady in Elegant Dress]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()