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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.).
Still Life with Books is an oil-on-panel, with dimensions of 91 cm (36 in) × 120 cm (47 in). It is in the style of Spanish vanitas paintings. [ 1 ] The idea of this style of painting was to show possessions and wealth are fleeting and mean nothing when one is faced with death. [ 6 ]
A typical vanitas still life by van der Meulen is the Vanitas still life with a skull, a guttering candle, a tortoiseshell mirror, a book, a statuette of saint Susanna, and a pack of cards (Sotheby's sale of 10 May 2019, London, lot 287). It contains many of the typical symbols of vanitas paintings.
The work is a still life in the genre of vanitas, painted with oils on oak panel, and measuring 39.2 by 50.7 cm (15.4 by 20.0 in). [1] Like most vanitas paintings, it contains deep religious overtones and was created to both remind viewers of their mortality (a memento mori) and to indicate the transient nature of material objects. [3]
Summary. Gerrit Dou: Still ... Object type: painting : Genre: still life : Description: Still life ... 1=''Still Life with Book and Purse'', oil on panel painting by ...
Still Life with Coffee Mill, Pipe Case and Jug also Still Life with a Bearded-Man Jar, 1884, Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo (F52) Main articles: Vincent van Gogh and Vincent van Gogh chronology Still life paintings by Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands) is the subject of many drawings, sketches and paintings made during Vincent van Gogh 's early ...
Still Life with Crows is a thriller novel by American authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child, released on July 1, 2003 by Grand Central Publishing. It is the fourth novel (behind Relic (1995), Reliquary (1997) and The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)) to feature FBI Special Agent Pendergast as protagonist.
[1] Though she is known for still life paintings in this period, her portraiture grew in popularity, and her 1773 Portrait of a Violinist was purchased by the National Museum in 2015. Vallayer-Coster exhibited her first floral still life in 1775, and subsequently became known especially as a painter of flowers. [9]