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Still life with fruit a nest and a lizard: 1710: Private collection: New York City Flowers in a glass vase with a dragonfly, on a marble slab: 1710: B 407: Schloss Fasanerie: Eichenzell, Fulda Flowers in a glass vase on a marble slab: ca. 1710: 77.5 cm x 62.3 cm: 1899.1.26: The Wilson: Cheltenham Still life of fruits, animals and insects on a ...
Still life of game in a forest. Abraham Mignon or Minjon [1] (21 June 1640 – 27 March 1679), was a still life painter. [2] He is known for his flower pieces, still lifes with fruit, still lifes in forests or grottoes, still lifes of game and fish as well as his garland paintings. [3]
Christopher Marley (born 1969) is an artist, photographer, naturalist, and author who uses natural artifacts as his artistic medium.He is best known initially for his book Biophilia, and then for the traveling exhibit Exquisite Creatures that features his art.
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The book is a collection of 48 engravings of plants, insects and small animals shown ad vivum made after studies by Joris Hoefnagel. [18] It is divided in four parts of twelve plates (each with separate frontispiece) engraved by Jacob Hoefnagel after designs by his father Joris Hoefnagel. [ 19 ]
Detail from Clara Peeters's "still life".. James N. Hogue, writing in the Encyclopedia of Insects, lists the following reasons behind musca depicta: as a jest; to symbolize the worthiness of even minor "objects of creation"; as an exercise in artistic privilege; as an indication that the portrait is post mortem; and as an imitation of works of previous painters. [1]
Insects have found uses in art, as in other aspects of culture, both symbolically and physically, from ancient times. Artforms include the direct usage of beetlewing ( elytra ) in paintings, textiles, and jewellery, as well as the representation of insects in fine arts such as paintings and sculpture.
Rachel Ruysch (3 June 1664 – 12 October 1750) [1] was a Dutch still-life painter from the Northern Netherlands.She specialized in flowers, inventing her own style and achieving international fame in her lifetime.