Round 5: Tossup 9

One of these objects is held by a young man wearing a red feather bonnet in a portrait by Frans Hals. Two shepherds stare at one of these objects in the bottom right corner of a painting (15[1]-5[1])by Guercino (“gwair-CHEE-noh”). A Caravaggio painting of a man writing a book as one of these objects sits on his desk (15[1])depicts St. Jerome, (15[1])who is often shown alongside (15[1])one of these objects (-5[1])in art. These objects feature alongside candles in a prominent subgenre of (*) still life. Paul Cezanne created a “Pyramid” of four of these objects, which are the primary subject of Vanitas paintings. The memento mori genre often features, for 10 points, what bone used to represent death? ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: human skulls [prompt on bones or skeletons]
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