Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette ☷ Van Gogh ☲ Woven Art Blanket mosaic and a church tower against

and a church tower against a starry sky

the Victorian-era audience would not accept a portrait labeled as an "arrangement

a style of art that he was instrumental in developing

The Geographer (1669) by Johannes Vermeer is one of only three paintings Vermeer signed and dated (the other two are The Astronomer and The Procuress)

Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette ☷ Van Gogh ☲ Woven Art Blanket mosaic and a church tower againstSkull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette (1886) by Vincent van Gogh is self descriptive. He depicted skeletons and skulls only a few times in his career. It is considered a memento mori, a reminder of death, at a time when he himself was in poor health. One might interpret it as a criticism of smoking, but van Gogh was an avid smoker until his death in 1890.