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Given the objects inanimate nature many praised. Late ming kraak porcelain the voc and 17th century dutch still life paintings june 18 2018 pronkstilleven with holbein bowl nautilus cup glass goblet and fruit dish willem kalf rotterdam 1678. Nonetheless still life paintings managed to climb up the ladder in the 17 th century in a piece of land that thrived on maritime trade the netherlands.
The tradition of still life painting appears to have started and was far more popular in the contemporary low countries today belgium and netherlands then flemish and dutch artists than it ever was in southern europe. The new dutch republic was the most prosperous nation in europe and led european trade science and art. 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.
Dutch painting of the 17th century. Dutch and flemish still life painting duration. The northern netherlandish provinces that made up the new state.
Just like all other dutch golden age paintings stillevens were known for their close resemblance to reality paintings that fool the eyes. 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. The dutch golden age led to a tremendous outpouring of still life paintings in the 17th century.
Starting in the baroque period such paintings became popular in spain in the second quarter of the 17th century. The netherlands had only recently become a political entity and was still suffering from the effects of a long and arduous war against spain. On one side the generally somber scenes are read symbolically through the lens of.
Paintings depicting aspects of the natural world were so characteristic of the netherlands that during the seventeenth century the dutch words stilleven and landschap were adopted into english as still life and landscape before the mid 1600s though the dutch themselves usually referred to pictures by their individual subjects such as.