Nearly every art student groans at the mention of still life painting. It’s often seen as a tedious exercise reserved for hyperrealists – or for those who’ve supposedly run out of ideas. But that’s a ...

If still-life painting is the art of arresting decay, then it makes a lot of sense that Rachel Ruysch grew up to become one of the greatest still-life painters in the history of art. In the 17th ...

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WOODSTOCK — The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum has announced the opening of “Come Into Bloom: Flower Paintings from the Permanent Collection,” on view from Aug. 15 to Oct. 5, in the Phoebe & ...

Pisano, Ronald G., "The complete catalogue of known and documented work by William Merritt Chase (1849-1916); volume 4. Still Lifes, Interiors, Figures, Copies of Old ...

In 1909, Abraham Bredius, then director of the Mauritshuis Museum in the Netherlands, released a slim volume on Johannes Torrentius, the first-ever monograph on the 17th-century Dutch painter. It was ...

Consider the Mediterranean monk seal. The mammal has been prized on the Italian peninsula since ancient times, hunted for its meat, fur, oil, and medicinal properties—so much so that by the 16th ...

Clara Peeters, "Still Life with Cheeses, Artichoke, and Cherries" (c. 1625), oil on wood panel, held by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (image public domain via LACMA) Already a member? Sign in ...

The Museo Casa Kahlo, housed three blocks away from the famous Casa Azul, offers a window into the painter's private life.