What is a Vanitas?

What defines a Vanitas painting?
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Works featured:
Clara Peeters, Bodegón (1611), Museo Del Prado.
Harmen Steenwyck, An Allegory Of The Vanities Of Human Life (C. 1640), National Gallery.
Unknown Artist, Allegory Of Charles I Of England And Henrietta Of France In A Vanitas Still Life (1670s), Birmingham Museum Of Art.
Follower Of Pieter Claesz, Still-Life With Crystal Ball (C. 1634), Private Collection.
Abraham Mignon, Nest Of Finches, Fish, Reptiles And A Dead Squirrel On A Forest Floor (1670-1679), Louvre Museum.
Franciscus Gijsbrechts, Vanitas (1672-1676), Royal Museum Of Fine Arts Antwerp.
Pieter Boel, Large Vanitas (1663), Palais Des Beaux-Arts De Lille.
Unknown Artist, Still Life With Books And Hourglass (C. 1630-1640), Gemäldegalerie.
Cornelis Norbertus Gysbrechts, Vanitas Still Life With A Skull, Sheet Music, Violin, Globe, Candle, Hourglass And Playing Cards, All On A Draped Table (1659-1675), Dorotheum.

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