Still-life painting, are simply the rendering of inanimate objects for the sake of their qualities of form, color, texture, & composition.
Maria van Oosterwijck - Tulip Flower Still Life
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It was the Renaissance when still life emerged as an independent painting genre.
Jan Davidsz de Heem - Festoon with Flowers and Fruits - 1680
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Early Netherlandish still-life paintings depicted skulls, candles, and hourglasses as allegories of mortality.
Ambrosius Bosschaert the Younger
A Still Life of Flowers and Shells
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Combined flowers and fruits of all seasons are often used to symbolize nature’s cycle.
Willem Kalf (Dutch, Rotterdam 1619–1693 Amsterdam). Date: 1659.
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Other popular subjects included realistically depicting miscellaneous material details of the household.
Still life with oysters, a rummer, a lemon and a silver bowl, Willem Claeszoon Heda, 1634
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Which was driven by the rise of a wealthy middle class who desired art works to decorate their homes.
Jan Fyt - Still Life with Fruit and Parrot
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Many factors contributed to the rise of still-life painting in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Severin Roesen - Still Life with Fruit
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The painting generally considered to be the first still life is a work by the Italian painter Jacopo de’Barbari painted 1504.
Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlets by Jacopo de’ Barbari
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The “golden age” of still-life painting occurred in the Dutch Lowlands during the 17th century.
Severin Roesen - Victorian Bouquet
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Among the most notable Dutch and Flemish still-life painters included Willem Heda, Willem Kalf, Jan Fyt,
Still Life with Plums, Cherries and Shells. by Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1628, British Museum
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Frans Snyders, Jan Weenix, Melchior d’Hondecoeter, Jan van Huysum, and the de Heem family.
Basket of Fruits Balthasar van der Ast, c. 1625, Staatliche Museen, Berlin
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From the 18th century until the rise of Nonobjective painting after World War II, France became the centre of still-life painting.
A Still Life with Fruit and a Cockatoo
Frans Snyders
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Most major artists who at some time resided there during this 250-year period executed still lifes such as J.B.S. Chardin, Eugène Delacroix, Gustave Courbet,
:Josef Schuster Stillleben mit Kakadu cockstoo
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Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Henri Matisse, and Pierre Bonnard.
Still Life by Josef Holstoyn
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Jan Weenix - The White Peacock (Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna) 💦
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Jan van Huysum
"Bouquet of Flowers in an Urn", 1724
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Jan van Huysum - A Still Life of Poppies in a Terra-cotta Vase, Roses, Carnation and Other Flowers with a Bird’s Nest on a Marble Ledge
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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit by Eugene Delacroix
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Gustave Courbet - Still Life with Apples and a Pomegranate
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Gustave Courbet - Still Life- Apples, Pears And Primroses On A Table
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Paul Cezanne (Still life with bottle and apple basket)
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Vincent Van Gogh - Vase with Twelve Sunflowers - 1888
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Still life with Bull’s Skull - Pablo Picasso - 1939
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Still life (with clarinet). Georges Braque - 1927
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