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Still Life with Flowers in a Vase: Christoffel van den Berghe: 1617 Philadelphia Museum of Art: Cat. 648 7 Dishes with Oysters, Fruit, and Wine: Osias Beert: 1615 National Gallery of Art: 1995.32.1 8 Still life with cheese, bread and drinking vessels: Clara Peeters: 1615 Mauritshuis: 1203 9 Still Life with Cheese: Floris van Dyck: 1615s 1615 ...
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. Due to a long and successful career that spanned over six decades, she became the best documented female painter of the Dutch ...
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.
After 1550 the Flemish and Dutch painters begin to show more interest in nature and beauty "in itself", leading to a style that incorporates Renaissance elements, but remains far from the elegant lightness of Italian Renaissance art, [3] and directly leads to the themes of the great Flemish and Dutch Baroque painters: landscapes, still lifes ...
Still Life with Flowers in a Decorative Vase, c. 1670–1675, Mauritshuis Very few women were professional artists during the 1600s. [ 5 ] In a 2004 book on Dutch Golden Age paintings by art historian Christopher Lloyd , van Oosterwijck was the only woman whose work was included. [ 6 ]
When van Gogh created still life paintings he was able to explore light and its effect on colors. A close-up of the bottle in Still Life with Straw Hat reveals that way in which van Gogh used varying shades of the same color to depict how light would fall, or be shaded, in the everyday items he painted from home or the garden. [4]
Still-Life with flowers, 1618, Hallwyl Museum, Stockholm. He was born in Antwerp, where he started his career, but he spent most of it in Middelburg (1587–1613), where he moved with his family because of the threat of religious persecution. He specialized in painting still lifes with flowers, which he signed with the monogram AB (the B in the ...
His floral still lifes were painted in the style of Jan van Huysum, with the flowers usually presented on a marble ledge against a green background. He was the father of artists Pieter van Os , Maria Margaretha van Os , and Georgius Jacobus Johannes van Os and grandfather to the painter Pieter Frederik van Os .