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4 wrz 2018 · The scale of this painting shows these foods and objects near life-size, and viewers are further drawn into the scene by the plates and lemon peel balancing precariously off the table ledge. Among the offerings here are olives and a lemon imported from across the Mediterranean, oysters with vinegar, and precious seasonings like salt and peppercorn.
The masters of the meal still life opted for delicacies such as fish, oysters, prawns, cheese, charcuterie, bread and titbits such as olives or nuts. Arranged artfully between the items of food are fine glassware, gilded goblets, pottery jugs or oriental porcelain, all rendered in the finest detail.
The food-orientated painting tradition in the Netherlands begun by Ambrosius Bosschaert and advanced by Willem Claeszoon Hela of Haarlem, known for his innovation of the breakfast table genre, still a theme in modern photography.
The Mauritshuis traces the development of Dutch meal still lifes from 1600 onwards, including major paintings by Clara Peeters and Floris van Dijck.
7 lis 2018 · More specifically, that the lavish displays of exotic objects, variety of edible goods, flowers and staples of seventeenth century Dutch society depicted in domestic interiors are mirror reflections of everyday life in the Protestant Calvinist northern Netherlands.
11 paź 2024 · Another very interesting sub-genre is the kitchen and market paintings, depicting the culinary richness sustained also by the fact that the Dutch had the most powerful commercial fleet in the world, and traded everything, including spices and all other kinds of exotic fruit and foods.
This chapter will discuss the 17th century Dutch still life paintings to provide the background information that is needed to make a proper comparison to 21st century food photography. The Dutch 17th century is a time of great progress in which many developments and events happened.
