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Image: Frans Snyder, “Still Life with Basket of Fruit” (1630s) Last week in our Saturday art posting we highlighted a joint painting by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders. Snyders was a master of still life painting, and this week we highlight one of his solo projects, Still Life with Basket of Fruit. Of course […]
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Image: Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders, “Pythagoras Advocating Vegetarianism” (c.1628-30). Oil on canvas. On Saturdays, we like to highlight works of art. As a D.C. dining guide we especially like to highlight works of art connected to food. We have been focusing on the golden age of still life painting recently. Today we found […]
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Image: Abraham Mignon, Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest (c. 1675). Oil on canvas. For our weekend posting about art, we continue gazing at still lifes. This one comes from the focal point for the movement, The Netherlands. It is by a German artist, Abraham Mignon, who moved to Utrecht. He was born […]
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Image: Leonardo da Vinci, “Fruit, vegetables and other studies” (1487-89). Pen and ink on paper, 235 x 176 mm. In our ongoing dive into the world of still-life painting as our Saturday posts on art, we backtrack a little. This study of fruit and vegetables across the top of other sketchings is in the notebooks […]
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Image: Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber by Juan Sánchez Cotán (1602). Oil on canvas. On Saturdays, we like to focus on a piece of art, and recently we have been focusing on still life paintings. Though the Netherlands was the focal point of the movement in the 16th and 17th century, there […]
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Image: Jacopo de’ Barbari, Still-Life with Partridge and Gauntlets (1504) For our Saturday art posting, we continue to explore still-life painting. For this post, we found what is arguably the first still life of the Renaissance, a painting of a partridge and gauntlets shot through with a crossbow arrow by Jacopo de’ Barbari. It also […]
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On Saturdays, we like to highlight a piece of art, especially ones related to food and drink. Today we return to a favorite artist, the great Impressionist, Edouard Manet. In honor of the season, the piece is Still Life with Melon and Peaches (c.1866), oil on canvas, from the collection of the National Gallery of […]
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