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A vain woman combing her hair, a fool showing her her face in a mirror, and a philosopher pointing to a skull as a reminder of the vanity of transient things
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Lettering: Nosce te ipsum. Stulta quid ad speculum fastus assumis inanes,/atque tibi forma, quae peritura places?/Hic cernis quod eris, quodque es. Quid cedere cessas?/Quae loquor, haec forsan iam dabit hora fidem.
Wellcome Collection
Title: A vain woman combing her hair, a fool showing her her face in a mirror, and a philosopher pointing to a skull as a reminder of the vanity of transient things
Description:
Lettering: Nosce te ipsum.
Stulta quid ad speculum fastus assumis inanes,/atque tibi forma, quae peritura places?/Hic cernis quod eris, quodque es.
Quid cedere cessas?/Quae loquor, haec forsan iam dabit hora fidem.
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