Question: Able to be seen as modern-day vanitas paintings are Hyman Bloom's still life paintings featuring 19th-century containers of a characteristic shape and size descending from at least as early as what period?
Sentence (from "Hyman Bloom"): Many of his works feature macabre subjects such as corpses and autopsy scenes based on his visits to a morgue as well as influences including Rembrandt's "Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" (1632) and Chaim Soutine's "Carcass of Beef" (1925), and have modern-day comparisons to Damien Hirst's dissected animal sculptures.
Relevant evidence: No