Street Art in Florence – S. Vanitas, S. Pecunia, S. Bellum

This striking and apocalyptic picture explicity depicts vanity, lust for money and war. Vices and horrors afflicting humanity, represented as divinities, with a halo, on a sort of altar, the names preceded by an S. indicating Sancta / Sanctum (saint).

A triptych of confused symbologies, but of no questionable meaning. The large fresco is located on the entrance wall of the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Florence. How can we interpret it? A moral imperative, a warning for those who enter? Piazza Brunelleschi, Florence.