The Magic of Things: still-life painting 1500-1800 - Hardcover

Jochen Sander

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3775722076 ISBN 13: 9783775722070

Publisher: Hatje Cantz,Germany, 2008

Synopsis

There seems to be an endless number of deceptively real objects depicted in still lifes: dewdrops on fragile flower petals, reflections of light on glass goblets and precious silver dishes, candied sweets in Chinese porcelain, the fine hairs on a peach, the soft feathers of a songbird, the sallow tinge to a skull. However, the details of this genre are not exhausted in the delicate rendering of varying surfaces, because each pictorial element can also symbolize religious or moral content or be a reference to the irretrievability of time gone by tempus fugit! This volume presents, on large-format plates, a splendid selection of works by some of the principal masters of the still-life genre, such as Jan Brueghel the Elder, Georg Flegel, Sebastian Stoskopff, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham Mignon, and Jean Siméon Chardin. These choice treasures of German, Netherlandish, Flemish, and French still-life painting exemplify nearly all of the different ways of playing with this genre.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hatje Cantz,Germany
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 3775722076
• ISBN 13: 9783775722070
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 368