Vida e morte nas pinturas de natureza-morta do século XVII holandês

The purpose of this article is to make some reflections about a specific type of art that, in a large part of its history, was especially concerned with the issues of death and the transience of existence: still-life paintings, especially those made by the Dutch in the 17th century. For that, it is necessary to retrace a path about the history of this genre, to then analyze the works of the period, and, in them, visualize the symbolic universes that alert us to the brevity of existence