Dutch still-life paintings omitted the ‘human cost of colonial warfare and slavery’ that underlay the bounty these canvases ...

Still-life painting has existed since time immemorial and offered us some of the most sublimely beautiful painting in art history. Yet for centuries it was dismissed by critics as merely an ...

Art Review Still Life Painting That Is Anything But Still Judith Linhares’s works comprise just a few elements, yet they are bodied forth in endless permutations that convey both whimsy and menace.

Master painters once called still life painting natura morte—dead nature. Yet even old still life paintings are livelier than you might think. Peer closely at this 16th century Dutch painting, a ...

This painting was holding a centuries-old secret that art historians were thrilled to find. A close examination of "Ecce Homo" by Renaissance artist Titian revealed another painting underneath ...

These pictures by photographer Rebecca Rütten made me laugh so much because she re-created Renaissance-era poses and still life paintings with people today and a whole lot of junk food. It’s a ...

Still lifes, landscapes, flower paintings, drawings and etchings began with Cubist-inflected still lifes from 1914 and 1915, when Morandi (1890-1964) was discovering his language.

Typically, still life paintings come in one of two kinds. They either picture natural objects -- flowers, fruits, insects, food, plants -- or else they gather diverse domestic items, such as books ...

Say "still-life," and many people quickly visualize opulent paintings by Dutch Old Masters - 17th-century tabletops brimming with the symbolism of blowsy flowers in various stages of decay ...

Still-life painting has existed since time immemorial and offered us some of the most sublimely beautiful painting in art history. Yet for centuries it was dismissed by critics as merely an ...