Still Life: Timeless Beauty
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Why place a skull beside beautiful things? What did an oyster, an exotic fruit or a scientific instrument suggest to a seventeenth-century viewer? This illustrated study approaches still life as a language of objects, examining the pleasures and anxieties concealed within its carefully arranged surfaces.
More than 70 paintings from Dresden’s collection provide the foundation, with Dutch and Flemish artists including Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch and Frans Snyders. Discussions of symbolism, function and illusion are supported by a pictorial glossary. For readers interested in vanitas and darker historical art, the book offers a particularly rich context: material splendour is considered alongside curiosity, belief and the awareness that pleasure cannot last. It rewards looking slowly at a genre that can appear quiet until its details begin to speak.
Book Details
- Author / editor: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Stephan Koja and Konstanze Krüger (editors)
- Publisher: Hatje Cantz
- Format: Hardback
- ISBN: 9783775751148
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