Still Life with Shells, Fruit, and Flowers

"Still Life with Shells, Fruit, and Flowers" is an artwork by Balthasar van der Ast. Still Life in brief: Later artists, including Cézanne, Matisse, and Picasso, used humble still-life subjects to test ideas about space and form. Still life, the arrangement of flowers, fruit, tableware, and other objects, became a distinct genre in the Netherlands and Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The catalogue places it in Still Life. The format is landscape.

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Dutch, 1593–1657

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