# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-allan-gilbert
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:29:08.921Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-allan-gilbert"
name: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
slug: "charles-allan-gilbert"
description: "Charles Allan Gilbert, better known as C. Allan Gilbert, was an American illustrator. He is especially remembered for a widely published drawing titled All Is Vanity. The drawing employs a double image in which the scene of a woman admiring herself in a mirror of her vanity table, when viewed from a distance, appears to be a human skull. The title is also a pun, as this type of dressing-table is also known as a vanity. The phrase \"All is vanity\" comes from Ecclesiastes 1:2 It refers to the vanity and pride of humans. In art, vanity has long been represented as a woman preoccupied with her beauty. And art that contains a human skull as a focal point is called a memento mori, a work that reminds people of their mortality."
tagline: "American illustrator (1873-1929)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/C._Allan_Gilbert%2C_silhouette_self-portrait%2C_1916.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1873-09-03"
deathDate: "1929-04-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.915687629578438
  historical:           11.21624133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0317987/"
    handle:    "nm0317987"
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    title: "Чарльз Аллан Гілберт"
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    title: "تشارلز ألان غيلبرت"
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  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Gilbert"
    title: "Charles Gilbert"
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    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Allan_Gilbert"
    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Allan_Gilbert"
    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Allan_Gilbert"
    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Allan_Gilbert"
    title: "Charles Allan Gilbert"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump