Renaissance 'Vanitas' Painting

The other day I did a shoot for my Renaissance project. Im making a book at the end and it will be a combination of still life, fashion style portraits and big dramatic scenes inspired by Renaissance art. Ive done quite a few shoots now (well one of each) and am looking forward to evolving it further throughout the project. Anyway, for now here is one of the pictures which I am really pleased with.

The image symbolises constructed and masked beauty (in context with the other images when presented in the book) yet also the appearence of reflected idealised beauty- the skull often conveyed as something so dark yet also stylised here. Snakes and skulls were often used in Renaissance art as a sign of human mortality and temptation - am juxtaposing these concepts into a fashion vision.