[Dead Nature]

Mural painting with Crucifixion and Deposition of Christ . The mural has been removed from the church of Saint Anthony at Kellia in Larnaca, Cyprus....

King Sōtei, the third of the ten (judge) kings of the dead kingdom and the other over his own court, can be told by an assistant about the deeds of the dead, who is held by the oni...

At the left of this outdoor still life, some purple-headed thistles grow at the foot of a tree trunk. A number of dead birds, including some finches and a snipe, hand from a branch...

The most convincing hypothesis, despite the uncertainties stemming from the existence of several variants of the same subject, identifies the painting in Brera with the “foreshorte...

Aspås classes 3, 4, 5 and 6 on excursion to Lienbacken in 1932. The participants from the left. Rear Row: Sister Signe. C A Karlsson, Aspås (teacher) from Lit, dead. Margit Fahlen,...

In the United States the dissemination of the writings of the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt in the mid-nineteenth century aroused a growing interest in South America, to...

At the close of the 16th century, artists became increasingly interested in nature. Jacob de Gheyn’s circle of friends included several scientists. His expertise and excellent obse...

Jacob Marrel’s specialized in ‘portraits’ of tulips in bloom. Tulip bulbs were collected fanatically in 17th-century Holland, and astronomical prices were sometimes paid for a sing...