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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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Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin

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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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Still Life with Flowers, 1882 - Edouard Manet

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Still Life with Flowers, 1883 - Edouard Manet

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Paul Cezanne (Still life with bottle and apple basket)

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Paul Cezanne - Still Life with Apples - 1893

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Vincent Van Gogh - Vase with Twelve Sunflowers - 1888

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Vincent Van Gogh - Vase with Stocks

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Vincent Van Gogh - Vase with Gladoli

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Still life with Bull’s Skull - Pablo Picasso - 1939

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Pablo Picasso, Nature Morte (Still Life), 1960

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Georges Braque. - Still Life

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Still life (with clarinet). Georges Braque - 1927

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Henri Matisse - Still Life

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Henri Matisse - Still Life with Goldfish

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Pierre Bonnard - Red Plums, 1892

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August Renoir Still Life with Roses

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August Renoir - Peaches, 1881

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Claude Monet. Branch of oranges

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