This book accompanies the National Gallery's exhibition of Spanish still-life painting from its origins to Goya and is the first major publication in English on the subject. Richly illustrated and beautifully produced, it is written by two of the foremost authorities in this field and contains much new research. In the first chapter the authors examine the circumstances which led to the creation of the earliest still lifes - the challenge of the imitation of nature and the revival of the ancient lost genre of still life - and discuss such topics as the influence of botanical studies, the symbolic dimension of still life, and early collectors of the genre. There follows a chronological overview of the development of still-life painting in Spain, beginning with Sanchez Cotan, a painter turned monk from Toledo, whose stark and extraordinary representations of fruit and vegetables carefully displayed in window frames are among the earliest European still lifes, and Velazquez, whose scenes of everyday life include prominent still-life elements. The authors trace the development of still life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through Juan van der Hamen's exquisite 'courtly' still lifes of precious glassware and candied fruit, the Vanitas paintings of Pereda and Valdes Leal, the works of Velazquez's Sevillian contemporaries, Francisco de Zurbaran and his son Juan, and the flower pictures of Juan de Arellano. They consider works by Melendez - characterised by a thrilling verisimilitude and a heightened pictorial intensity and richness - and lesser-known artists such as Paret and Romero, and, finally, still-life paintings by Goya whose disturbing simplicity and directness recall some of his more sinister works and suggest a new departure for the genre. The authors describe the character of each artist's oeuvre, their relationship with other artists, interpret particular pictures, describing the circumstances of the commission, and give biographical information. Full colour plates illustrate the exhibited works, accompanied by informative catalogue entries.

Spanish Still Life from Velazquez to Goya (National Gallery London Publications)

Arts & Photography

Cherry, Peter

Jordan, Mr. William B.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

National Gallery London

Offers a look at the life and work of Luis Melendez, one of eighteenth-century Europe's greatest still-life painters.

Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life

Hirschauer, Gretchen A.

Metzger, Catherine A.

Seseña, Natacha

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Muslim Masculinities in Literature and Film: Transcultural Identity and Migration in Britain (Gender and Islam)

Literature & Fiction

I.B.Tauris

This is a paper version of the successful book on duck production. Ducks are kept for profit in a great diversity of circumstances in both temperate and tropical climates. Outlining the biology of the domestic duck, this book also combines the authors' considerable practical and scientific experience to provide quantitative descriptions of nutritional and environmental effects on growing and breeding ducks, as well as practical advice on husbandry, housing and management. It is an essential resource for duck industry practitioners, researchers, and students.

Domestic Duck Production: Science and Practice

Science & Math

Morris, Trevor

Biological Sciences

CABI

Cherry's Morecambe Bay

Peter Cherry

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Maria Sybilla Merian y Alida Withoos: mujeres, arte y ciencia en la Edad Moderna

Pardo-Tomás, José

Cabré i Pairet, Montserrat

Carlos Varona, María Cruz de

García Guillén, Esther

Remond, Jaya

Pérez de Rada Cavanilles, Gloria

Drawing

Editorial Universidad de Cantabria

Luis Meléndez. Bodegones (Spanish Edition)

Luna, Juan J.

Museo Nacional Del Prado

The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue explore the abiding themes of still life across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries: the fruit piece, the game piece, kitchen and banquet still lifes, the flower painting, musical instruments, the cabinet of curiosities, and the trompe-l'oeil. The diversity of artistic treatment of these themes in different countries will be shown through related works, such as the fruit still lifes of the female artists Louise Moillon and Fede Galizia or the kitchen scenes by Jean-Siméon Chardin and Luis Meléndez. Other artists who cultivated this genre and who are also represented in the exhibition and in the catalogue include Juan Sanchéz Cotán, Juan van der Hamen, Pieter Claesz, Juan Zurbarán, Rembrandt van Rijn, Antonio de Pereda, Nicolas Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Luis de Meléndez and Francisco de Goya. The exhibition has been made possible due to the commitment of the many lending institutions, private collectors and museums, such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, The Metropolitam Museum in New York, The Louvre Museum, The Prado Museum, The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, The Mauritshuis in The Hague, The National Gallery in London and the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, among so many others. This volume allows an insight into the theme, through the essays and the individual studies of all paintings, written by such scholars as Peter Cherry, John Loughman and Lesley Stevenson. Contents: Foreword: Emílio Rui Vilar, President of the Catalogue Gulbenkian Foundation João Castel-Branco Pereira, Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Introduction: In the presence of things. Two centuries of still-life painting - Peter Cherry; "Delicacies that enrapture the eye and the mind": still-life painting in the Netherlands of the seventeenth century - John Loughman; The golden age of still-life painting in Spain and Italy - Peter Cherry; The still life in France: tradition and equivocation - Lesley Stevenson. Catalogue: List of Paintings Nos. 1-71. Also available: Volume 2 ISBN: 9789728848224

In the Presence of Things: Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting (Volume 1)

Loughman, John

Stevens, Lesley

Scala Arts Publishers, Inc.

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