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==Work==
===General===
Van Verendael mainly painted flower pieces, vanitas still lifes and a few allegorical scenes with monkeys. His dated works are from the period between 1659 and 1690.<ref name=met>{{cite book | author=Liedtke , Walter A. | title=''Flemish paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art'' | location=New York | publisher=The Metropolitan Museum of Art | year=1984 | isbn=0870993569 | url=https://archive.org/details/flemishpaintings0000metr | url-access=registration }} (p.270-272, v.1; plate 105, v.2)</ref> He was highly regarded from an early age. He was in demand as a collaborator working with some of the leading Antwerp painters such as [[David Teniers the Younger]], [[Gonzales Coques]], [[Erasmus Quellinus II]], [[Jan Boeckhorst]], [[Carstian Luyckx]] and [[Jan Davidsz. de Heem]].<ref name=rkd/><ref name=bran/> Veerendael is known to have collaborated with other artists on works that expanded on the pure flower still lifes of his particular expertise.<ref name=sothe>[http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/lot.20.html/2016/old-masters-evening-sale-l16036 Nicolaes van Verendael, ''Vanitas still life with flowers, a skull, hourglass, conch shell and silver jug on a partially draped table''] at Sotheby's</ref>
[[File:Verendael-guirnalda.jpg|thumb|230px|''Garland surrounding the Virgin Mary'']]
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===Vanitas===
[[File:Hendrick Andriessen and Nicolaes van Verendael - Vanitas still life with a bunch of flowers,
Veerendael painted a number of still lifes with a [[vanitas]] motif. Vanitas still lifes were very popular in the 17th century in Flanders and the Dutch Republic. The objects in these still lifes evoke the transient nature of earthly goods and pursuits, the role of chance in life and its apparent meaninglessness. Stock symbols expressing these ideas include skulls, extinguished candles, empty glasses, wilting flowers, dead animals, smoking utensils, watches, mirrors, books, dice, playing cards, hourglasses and musical instruments, musical scores, various expensive or exclusive objects such as jewellery and rare shells. The term ''vanitas'' is derived from the famous line {{lang|la|Vanitas, Vanitas. Et omnia Vanitas}} in the [[Vulgate]] translation of the book of [[Ecclesiastes]] in the Bible. In the [[King James Version]] this line is translated as {{bibleref2|Eccl|1:2; 12:8|KJV|"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"}}.<ref>{{cite book
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These vanitas paintings were informed by a Christian understanding of the world as a temporary place of ephemeral pleasures and torments from which humanity’s only hope of escape had been offered by the sacrifice and [[resurrection of Christ]]. While most of these symbols reference earthly accomplishments (books, scientific instruments, etc.), pleasures (a pipe), sorrows (symbolised by a peeled lemon), the transience of life and death (skulls, soap bubbles, empty shells) and the role of chance in life (dice and playing cards), some symbols used in these paintings carry a dual meaning: a rose or an oar of grain refers as much to the brevity of life as it is a symbol of the resurrection of Christ and thus eternal life.<ref name="Koozin 1990">{{cite book
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An example of a vanitas still life by Veerendael is the [[:File:Hendrick Andriessen and Nicolaes van Verendael - Vanitas still life with a bunch of flowers, a
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