Dutch golden age still life. New zealand was named in 1645 after the dutch province of zeeland. The paintings on this board were produced in the northern european low countries between roughly 1600 and 1750. Dutch golden age painting is the painting of the dutch golden age a period in dutch history roughly spanning the 17th century during and after the later part of the eighty years war 15681648 for dutch independence.
Willem kalf 1619 31 july 1693 was a dutch golden age painter who specialized in still lifeslater in his life kalf became an art dealer and appraiser. The dutch golden age period was an extremely important awakening in the world of art so its not surprising that many historic still lifes were created during that time. Jun 30 2013 william the silent of orange dutch republic windmills canals delftware pottery tulips the dutch east india trading company voc rembrandt vermeer dutch still life and landscape painting portraits and genre scenes camera obscura leeuwenhoek and the invention of microbiology in the netherlands during the 17th century.
Kevin takes us back to that golden era he has amassed an. A special genre of still life was the so called pronkstilleven dutch for ostentatious still life. They painted still lifes that.
For an artist reinterpreting the still life paintings of the dutch golden age in a new medium kevin best could not have been born in a more appropriately named country. The new dutch republic was the most prosperous nation in europe and led european trade science and art. May 9 2018 almost certainly what first comes to most peoples minds when they think of still life the paintings from the dutch golden age represent one of the definite peaks of the genre.
Obviously photographic still life falls outside the scope of this board. The emergence of the dutch school of painting in the early seventeenth century is one of the most extraordinary phenomena in the history of the visual arts. Still life as a particular genre began with netherlandish painting of the 16th and 17th centuries and the english term still life derives from the dutch word stilleven.
Early still life paintings particularly before 1700 often contained religious and allegorical symbolism relating to the objects depicted. This style of ornate still life painting was developed in the 1640s in antwerp by flemish artists such as frans snyders osias beert adriaen van utrecht and a whole generation of dutch golden age painters. The netherlands had only recently become a political entity and was still suffering from the effects of a long and arduous war against spain.