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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.).
A life drawing is a drawing of the human figure, traditionally nude, from observation of a live model. Creating life drawings, or life studies , in a life class , has been a large element in the traditional training of artists in the Western world since the Renaissance.
The paintings involved still life imagery of transitory items. The genre began in the 16th century and continued into the 17th century. Vanitas art is a type of allegorical art representing a higher ideal. It was a sub-genre of painting heavily employed by Dutch painters during the Baroque period (c.1585–1730). [1]
Animal painting by Frans Snyders, Dogs fighting in a wooded clearing A still life. Heinrich Uhl, Still life with Jewelry Box, Opera Glasses, Gloves, and Bouquet of Flowers, oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1560 after Pieter Bruegel, an original treatment of a history subject dominated by a genre figure.
Pronkstilleven (Dutch for 'ostentatious', 'ornate' or 'sumptuous' still life) is a style of ornate still life painting, characterised by large and complex compositions and an elaborate palette. Pronkstillevens typically depict a wide variety of objects, fruits, flowers and inanimate animals, often accompanied by live human and animal figures.
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