Still Life with Fruit and Oysters

In 1899, Gauguin's mistress, Pahura, gave birth to a son, who gave the artist a new lease on life. After months of inaction due to poverty and ill health, Gauguin began to paint ag...

The still life, a pictorial representation of foodstuffs, objects or inanimate objects, was one of the artistic genres that became fully independent in the 17th century. The origin...

Two fruit studies: a grape with green fruit, a round red fruit and an oval blue-violet fruit at the top; a grape with green fruit and a round red-yellow fruit at the bottom...

Willem van Aelst trained with his uncle Evert van Aelst in his native city of Delft and opted to specialise in still-life painting. At the age of eighteen he left Holland and settl...

From the mid-20th century onwards a series of articles and exhibitions helped to establish the life and artistic personality of this Roman painter. Tommaso Salini is known for his ...