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The Still Life:

An Introduction to

Style & Symbolism

Object & Body

2011-2012

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The Medieval

(5th 15th centuries)

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Zeuxis and Parrhasios

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Master of the Annunciation of Aix, Still Life, 14??

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Illusion:

The Renaissance

(14th 17th centuries)

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Samuel van Hoogstraten, Trompe loeil Pinboard, c.1666

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Adrian van der Spelt, Flower Still Life with Curtain, 1658

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Society:

Flemish 16th Century

Still Life

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Pieter Aertsen, Market Woman with Vegetable Stall, 1567

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Frans Snyders Vegetable Still Life, c. 1600

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Frans Synders cook with Food, c.1630

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Pieter Aertsen, Butchers Stall, 1551

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Frans Snyders, Still Life with Poultry & Venison, 1614

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Willem van Aelst, Still Life with Hunting Equipment and Dead

Birds, 1668

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Vase of Flowers, c. Jan Davidsz de Heem, 1660

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Flowers in a Vase, Rachel Ruysch, 1685

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Flowers in a Vase, Rachel Ruysch, 1685

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Jean-Baptiste Simon Chardin Still Life with Dead

Pheasant and Hunting Bag, 1760

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Jacques Bachelier Jean Baptiste Oudry

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Vanitas

(16th & 17th Century)

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Antonio de Pereda, The Knights Dream 1655

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Pieter Claesz, Vanitas Still Life, 1630

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Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors, 1533

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SYMBOLISM

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Osias Beert, Still Life with Cherries and Strawberries, 1608

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Abraham van

Beijeren, Banquet

Still Life, c.1660

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Balthasar van der Ast, Fruit Basket, 1632

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Leiden Master, Still Life of Books, 1628

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LIGHT

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Willem Kalf, Still

Life with Nautilus

Goblet, 1660

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Pieter Claesz, Still Life with Wine Glass and Silver Bowl, C.17th

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Jan Brueghel the Elder and Peter Paul Rubens,

Madonna in Floral Wreath , c.1620

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Willem de Poorter,

Still Life with

Weapons andBanners, c.1636

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Early modernity

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Butchers Counter, Francisco Goya, c. 1810-12

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Apples and Oranges, Paul Cezanne, c.1899

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Van Gogh,

Sunflowers, c.1888