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Flowers in a glass vase on a balustrade with colunnade: 1689: 79:25: San Diego Museum of Art: San Diego, CA Spray of flowers with insects and butterflies on a marble slab: 1690s: 36.6 cm x 30.4 cm: PD.38-1975: Fitzwilliam Museum: Cambridge Posy of flowers, with a red admiral butterfly, on a marble ledge: ca. 1695: 34.5 cm x 27.3 cm: Private ...
Flower Garland with Butterfly; Flower Garland with Dragonfly; For the Love of God; ... Skull art; Skull mexican make-up; Skull of a Skeleton with Burning Cigarette;
In her early work Ruysch painted a large number of forest floor pictures that feature small animals, reptiles, butterflies, and fungi. She later adopted flower painting as her main concern and continued to paint until her death, thus continuing the 17th-century style right down to the middle of the following century. [11]
The leering skull in the still life is almost like a portrait of the dead King, which confronts the viewer with its riveting stare. To the left of the skull are placed the stock symbols of transience such as wilting flowers, bubbles, an extinguished taper and a luxurious pocket watch waiting to be wound.
Skull art is found in various cultures of the world. Indigenous Mexican art celebrates the skeleton and uses it as a regular motif. The use of skulls and skeletons in art originated before the Conquest : The Aztecs excelled in stone sculptures and created striking carvings of their Gods. [ 1 ]
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.).
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Vincent van Gogh: The Lost Arles Sketchbook, Abrams edition, 2016.. The lost Arles sketchbook is a purported sketchbook of drawings by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh.The attribution of the drawings by the art historian Bogomila Welsh-Ovcharov to Van Gogh has been disputed.