Futility posters & prints

Misery Anonymous

Futile effort of the Greeks to burn the Venetian fleet Timotheus ten Hoorn

The Death of the Grave Digger (La mort du fossoyeur), 1895-1900 Carlos Schwabe

Ruler Anonymous

Ecclesiastes (Vanity of vanities, all is vanity), 1899 Isaac Lvovich Asknazy

War Anonymous

Vanity (The Source of Evil) Giovanni Segantini

Self-portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle, 1872 Arnold Böcklin

Vanitas, 1520-1524 Anonymous

To Beauty. Anonymous

Temptation Anonymous

The front line at Ovillers, Battle of the Somme, Picardy, France, July 1916 Anonymous

Death Comes to the Banquet Table (Memento Mori), c. 1635 Giovanni Martinelli

Title page of Regimen wider die Pestilenz by Philipp Culmacher, c. 1495 Anonymous

1950s Woman Hitting Forehead With Heel Of Hand Anonymous

Genius (Artist) Anonymous

Vanitas Still Life, 1662 Edwaert Collier

Allegory of Time Anonymous

The Triumph of Death, 1465-1470 Anonymous

Death, 1897 Anonymous

Vanity, 1670 French master

Marriage for Wealth Officiated by the Devil, ca. 1600 Jan Saenredam

A Dog Howling at the Moon Philipp Otto Runge

Plague Anonymous

Death Comes to the Banquet Table (Memento Mori), Between 1625 and 1638 Anonymous

Allegory of Vanity, c. 1640 Leonaert Bramer

An anamorphic Trompe lOeil with a Vanitas still life Anonymous

Integer Vitae... Anonymous

Mourning women, c. 1913 Koloman Moser

Vanitas Still Life with a Terrestrial Globe, a Book, Shells, a Snake and Butterflies Carstian Luyckx

Boy Blowing Soap Bubbles. Allegory on the Transitoriness and the Brevity of Life, 1663 Anonymous

Death and the Maiden, before 1872 Pierre Cécil Puvis de Chavannes

Vanity Still Life (Christ in the House of Martha and Mary) Anonymous

A Peasant Funeral Ivan Ivanovich Tvorozhnikov

Nine allegorical compositions on the uncertainty of life Anonymous

Death and Life Anonymous