Flemish still life
Still life with moor and porcelain vessels
Famous still life paintings!
Dutch Still Lives And The Food We Buy
The Louvre has recently announced a new exhibition next year (opening in October 2022) which will be dedicated to the history of still lives, from Antiquity through to the twentieth century.
The museum notes that the exhibition will explore ‘our growing fondness for things… and new relationships bound between the living and the non-living.’ There is certainly something celebratory about still lives; it is a painting genre which not only reveals histories of human interests in particular objects, but also the merging of extraordinary artistic skill with the ordinary everyday.
For many museum visitors, still lives are some of the most technically impressive and visually contemplative pieces of art. In Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum there is a small gallery, hidden in a quiet corner, dedicated to the Dutch still lives paintings from the seventeenth century.
From floor to ceiling, canvases overflow with flowers, fruits, minibeas