Until the seventeenth century, still life paintings were occasional curiosities, From the Romans and Hans Memling to the early Dutch Golden Age the genre developed steadily.
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One of the great technical challenges in painting, glassware has been used by young and aspiring artists to demonstrate their skills. Antonello and Cranach to Liotard’s pastels.
For the last 3,500, monkeys have often appeared in European paintings. Here’s a brief survey, with examples from Botticelli, Brueghels, Clara Peeters, Watteau, and others.
Curious still lifes and more containing allegories about the emptiness and futility of life on earth, and its brevity. Even seen in CĂ©zanne and Jacek Malczewski.
One of the finest still-life painters of any age, some of her work celebrated the sensual pleasures of food, others the futility of life.
Trying to elicit a specific taste seem over-ambitious, but why can’t great paintings at least make us feel peckish?
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