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The museum boasts beautiful still lifes by Jan Brueghel, who often collaborated on Rubens’ figural paintings. Seventeenth-century painters went on to develop separate specialties within still-life painting.
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The collection of Dutch seventeenth-century paintings in the National Gallery of Art includes works by well-known masters of the period, including Rembrandt van Rijn, Johannes Vermeer, Frans Hals, and Aelbert Cuyp.
4 wrz 2018 · A group of Haarlem-based painters, led by Pieter Claesz and Willem Claesz Heda, introduced banketjes (“banquet pieces”) into the still-life repertoire. These sumptuous paintings reflect and celebrate this increasing prosperity and the country’s international exploration (and dominance).
Still Life Paintings from the Netherlands 1550–1720, (Dutch: Het Nederlandse Stilleven 1550–1720) is a 1999 art exhibition catalog published for a jointly held exhibition by the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (19 June – 9 September 1999) and Cleveland Museum of Art (31 October 1999 – 9 January 2000).
This panel is generally considered to be the earliest known independent still-life painting of a vanitas subject, or symbolic depiction of human vanity. The skull, large bubble, cut flowers, and smoking urn all evoke the brevity of life, while images floating in the bubble—such as a wheel of torture and a leper’s rattle—refer to human folly.
Dutch Paintings of the 17th Century. Despite the political and religious turmoil of the Eighty Years’ War (1589–1648), in the early 17th century the northern Netherlands experienced great economic prosperity due to the country’s international maritime trade and high levels of urbanization.
