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Juan Sánchez Cotán, Still Life with Game Fowl, Vegetables and Fruits (1602), Museo del Prado, Madrid. A still life (pl.: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, etc.).
Mar 12, 2022 · How Artists Have Kept Still Life Painting Alive Over Thousands of Years. By Kelly Richman-Abdou on March 12, 2022. Édouard Manet once called still life “the touchstone of painting.”. Characterized by an interest in the insentient, this genre of art has been popular across movements, cultures, and periods, with major figures like Paul ...
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Jasper Johns. Jasper Johns, Painted Bronze, 1960. In the mid twentieth century still life is invigorated by American artist Jasper Johns with an attitude that foreshadows the emergence of Pop Art. Though Johns is known primarily for his painting, this sculptural take on the still life is stoic in its simplicity.
Still Life with Flowers, oil on canvas by Maria van Oosterwyck, 1680. 97 × 77 cm. Among the most famous Dutch and Flemish painters who specialized in still-life subjects were Willem Heda, Willem Kalf, Jan Fyt, Frans Snyders, Jan Weenix, Melchior d’Hondecoeter, Jan van Huysum, and the de Heem family. From the 18th century until the rise of ...
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Jun 23, 2023 · Juan Sánchez Cotán - Still Life with Game, Vegetables and Fruit, 1602. Prado. Ambrosius Bosschaert the Elder. 1614. Francisco de Zurbaran. Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose (1633). Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena. Hans Boulenger. Tulips in a Vase (1639). Rijksmuseum.
Location. National Gallery, London. Accession. NG1256. Still Life: An Allegory of the Vanities of Human Life is an oil-on-panel painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Harmen Steenwijck. Created around 1640, the work is an allegorical vanitas. It has been in the collection of the National Gallery in London since 1888.
Still Life with Fish, Candle, Artichokes, Crabs and Shrimp Clara Peeters • 1611 Still Life with Flowers and Gold Cups of Honor Clara Peeters • 1612 Still Life Frans Snyders • 1612-1613
