# Still Life with a Skull

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## Artwork

- Artist: [LUTTICHUIJS, Simon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Oil on canvas

## Commentary

This still-life is of the type preferred by the Leiden school which usually represents tables scattered with writing materials, books, old documents, globes, and literary texts - symbols of knowledge and at the same time of its transience.

## Related artworks

- [Breakfast with Ham](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6/breakfast-with-ham-rc923c0a28f7cdc>)
- [Still-Life](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6/still-life-r6fe20f96355fdf>)
- [Still-Life with a Peeled Lemon in a Roemer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6/still-life-with-a-peeled-lemon-in-a-roemer-r64e18cef0c0e7c>)
- [Still Life with a Skull](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6/still-life-with-a-skull-r730242c17416ea>)
- [Still-Life with Fruit and Roses](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6/still-life-with-fruit-and-roses-r0b27b60b50ea63>)
- [Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/luttichuijs-simon-rbde522e637b8c6/vanitas-still-life-with-a-skull-r0700cfff9160ed>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)