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OIL PAINTINGS BY GENRE - Still Life Paintings |
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Still Life Paintings
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Until the Renaissance, elements of still life, often imbued with symbolic or ritual significance, appeared as subordinate subject matter in religious or allegorical paintings.
At the beginning of the Italian Renaissance such detail was handled far more formally and was utterly dominated by the religious theme of the paintings, as in the paintings of Giotto. By the 15th cent. still-life objects were used to enhance the illusion of scientific perspective, a subject of passionate study in the new humanism. At that time still life became a separate genre in Italy.
Specialists in the handling of specific textures or effects such as glass, fur, plants, and the translucence of grapes came into being. Where Italian artists had communication with Northern masters, their works reflected the Northern interest in still-life paintings. The direction of this influence was reversed by the time of Caravaggio. Specialty paintings were the first major separate still lifes.
Still life was developed as a separate genre primarily in the Netherlands in the oil paintings of Jan Bruegel, Rubens, Snyders, and Rembrandt. In France still life was used in the 17th cent. primarily for trompe l'oeil exercises and not significantly elevated until it received brilliant handling by Chardin in the 18th cent. French 19th-century masters, including Courbet and Cezanne, adopted still life wholeheartedly, giving it status equal to that of their other subjects. In the United States, Harnett and Peto used still life in their paintings in order to display brilliant trompe l'oeil techniques.
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| Still Life, 1895 |
| Oil on canvas, 53x72 cm |
| The Hermitage, Leningrad |
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CEP002 |
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22x30 inches |
| price: |
340 USD BUY painting |
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CEP002B |
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26x35,4 inches |
| price: |
420 USD BUY painting |
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CEP002C |
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| size: |
29x40 inches |
| price: |
455 USD BUY painting |
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| Flora, 1826 |
| Oil on canvas, 68x 49 cm |
| Osterreichische Galerie, Wien |
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WAF003 |
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27,7x20 inches |
| price: |
375 USD BUY painting |
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WAF003B |
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30x21,6 inches |
| price: |
435 USD BUY painting |
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WAF003C |
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34x24,5 inches |
| price: |
475 USD BUY painting |
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