Dead Nature with Fruit, 1800s, Gold & Silver, Oil on Canvas

Description

The seventeenth century is the golden century of dead nature, particularly in Northern Europe (but also in Italy and Spain). … more The seventeenth century is the golden century of dead nature, particularly in Northern Europe (but also in Italy and Spain). There is a considerable request for this kind of paintings, mostly by a new audience of bourgeois extraction buyers. The great increase in demand favors a process of specialization, with the identification of 'subgenres' linked to the predominant content of the paintings and with specific denominations. The artists, therefore, specialize in the realization of a dead nature that have the theme of food, or the flowers, or the musical instruments and other objects that constitute a particular type of dead nature, called Vanitas (theme, moreover, to which they often flood The Nature Deaths in general). Our work depicting a dead nature with fruit with a silver mug in the center. In the work you can see some technical characteristics including the wide range of colors that are inserted in the games of transparencies arise chiaroscuro and reflections . To the shared world of the time, the artist contrasts brightness and chromatic innovations, alternating with virtuosity and intertwining both stylistic and chromatic. Conditions: Excellent condition. Measures: 75x97cm. Origin: Holland 17th century. Document: certificate of authenticity. less