Details of renaissance and baroque paintings from the National Museum of History and Art in Luxembourg offers a precious insight into a vanitas psyche of the epoch and theme of life, vanishing and death.

Detail of “Mary Magdalene comforted by an angel” by Johann Andreas Wolff, late 17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of “Cupid surprises psyche at night” by Abraham Bloemaert, ca. 1590, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Charity” by Lucas Cranach the Elder, after 1536, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Vanitas with a putto on a table, playing with bubbles (Homo Bulla)” by Vincent Casteleyn, 1642, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Flower still life” by Jan Brueghel the Younger, first quarter of the 17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Holy Family” by Michele Desubleo, mid-17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Magnanimity of Scipio” by Pieter van Lint, mid-17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Family of Darius before Alexander” by Louis Licherie de Beurie, third quarter of the 17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Bacchus” by Jacob Jordaens, mid-17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Isaac blessing Jacob” by Jan Cossiers, mid-17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Stormy landscape” by Bonaventura Peeters, second quarter of the 17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Shipwreck” by Adam Pynacker, second quarter of the 17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Christ at the Column and Mother of Sorrows” by Gaspard Masery, ca. 1548, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Penitent Mary Magdalene” by Abraham Janssens, 1620s, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Holy Kinship” by Frans Floris, ca. 1555, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Isaac blessing Jacob” by Jan Cossiers, mid-17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Christ falling on the way to Calvary” by Flemish painter, after 1564, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Still life with a hare” by Alexandre-François Desportes, first quarter of the 18th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

Detail of the “Vanitas” by Jan van Dalen, mid-17th century, National Museum of History and Art (MNHA) in Luxembourg.

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Detail of The Girl in a red jacket by Henri-Edmond Cross, not dated, signed on bottom left, oil on canvas. Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, from the collection of Emile Mayrisch (Luxembourg Red Cross). Neo-impressionist work painted in the Pointillist style.

The Age of Bronze by Auguste Rodin, 1877, signed on the base at right, bronze. Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, from the collection of Emile Mayrisch (Luxembourg Red Cross). 

Detail of The hill of Saint-Pierre in Saint-Tropez by Théo van Rysselberghe, 1896, signed and dated on bottom right, oil on canvas. Musée National d'Histoire et d'Art, from the collection of Emile Mayrisch (Luxembourg Red Cross). Neo-impressionist work painted in the Pointillist style.