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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 ]
Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720, 67 ; Jan van der Heyden catalog raisonné, 1927, 339; Jan van der Heyden (1637-1712), 29; John vander Heyden catalogue raisonné, 1834, 11; Asia in Amsterdam, The Culture of luxury in the Golden Age, 4b; Gerrit Braamcamp estate sale, 77; Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550-1720
English: The drinking-horn in this still life was made of a single buffalo horn set into a silver mount which features Saint Sebastian, patron saint of archers, who was bound to a tree as a target for two Roman soldiers. It dates from 1565 and is kept today in the Amsterdam Historisch Museum.
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.).
Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts [needs Dutch IPA] or Gysbrechts (1625/1629 – after 1675) [1] was a Flemish painter who was active in the Spanish Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden in the second half of the seventeenth century. [2]
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]
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Fruit still life. Van Utrecht was mainly a still life painter. The range of still life subjects that he tackled was wide and included scenes of fish, meat and vegetable stalls, kitchen scenes often including figures or living animals adding a narrative element, displays of game in larders or as hunting trophies, still lifes of fish, fruit and vegetables.