LUTTICHUIJS, Simon
(b. 1610, London, d. 1661, Amsterdam)

Still Life with a Skull

1635-1640
Oil on canvas
National Museum, Gdañsk

This still-life is of the type preferred by the Leiden school which usually represents tables scattered with writing materials, books, old documents, globes, and literary texts - symbols of knowledge and at the same time of its transience.