Spanish still life

Albert Anker

On seventeenth-century Spanish artists.

Francisco de Zurbarán (1598-1664) bodegon Still-life with lemons, oranges, a cup & a rose, detail [1633] Pasadena Norton Simon

Still Life with Lemons and Oranges

Luis Meléndez (Spanish, 1715 - 1780) Still Life with Bread, Bottle, and Jug 1770 Bread, brød, brot, brood, pan, pane, paine, cheleb, х...

Luis Meléndez

Francisco de Zurbaran

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Pablo Picasso. Decanter and tureens, 1908 Decanter and Tureens 1908 Oil on cardboard St.Petersburg. The State Hermitage Museum

Juan van der Hamen y (Gómez de) León (bapt. 8 April 1596 – 28 March 1631) was a Spanish painter of Flemish ancestory, a master of the still life paintings.

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Antonio López.

Francisco de Zurbarán 1. A Cup of Water and a Rose, ca. 1630. 2. Detail from Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose, 1633. Zurbarán painted few still lifes. The the cup of water on a silver plate with a rose appears in two paintings and in ‘Still Life with Basket of Oranges’ of 1633. The silver plate is of a kind imported into Spain from Peru. The objects may be intended to be symbolic: the water refers to the Virgin’s purity; the flower recalls her title of ‘Mystic Rose’."

Recreating an 18th century Spanish still life painting. Juan Sanchez Cotan

These paintings are my homage to the great tradition of Spanish Still Life Painting. Like the "golden age" of Dutch art, many of the greatest Spanish works were made in the 17th century, by artists such as Juan Sanchez Cotan, Pereda, Van Der Haman, and Zurburan. But I am also interested in the tradition as it moved into the next century. Although the ascendancy of French art and culture was already in effect in the 18th century, Spain continued to produce some geniuses, notably Egidio Luis…

"Still Life With Melon, Jug and Bread" by Luis Melendez