Pieter Schenk (I), Vanitas still life with a flower-covered skull, 1670 - 1713
Vanitas is a theme in art. The word vanitas is Latin and means 'vanity' and 'emptiness'. Skulls, extinguished candles, withered flowers, soap bubbles, decayed books, musical instruments, clocks or overturned glasses were used to visualise the vanity, temporality and meaninglessness of earthly things.
Petrus Schenck (Elberfeld, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia December 26, 1660 - Leipzig, Saxony, Germany 1711) was a German engraver and mapmaker. Together with his son of the same name, Pieter Schenk (II), Schenck was one of the most important figures of Saxon cartography in the first half of the 18th century.
Petrus Schenck spent his apprenticeship or joined the Amsterdam engraver and map publisher Gerard Valck. Schenck lived in the Jordaan on the Lauriergracht. Around 1700, he settled in Leipzig as a globetrotter, mapmaker and art dealer.
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