Singer Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast is inspired by 17th-century Dutch vanitas works for her new album cover ...

After more than three centuries, a painting by Maria van Oosterwijck is finally hanging in an Amsterdam museum. At first glance, it’s a fairly standard vanitas still life, a genre focused on the ...

Conservation work in progress on Maria van Oosterwijck's Vanitas Still Life. The painting, acquired in 2023 ... when a journalist approached all Dutch museums, in connection with International ...

These works, called vanitas paintings ... though brighter than most of its 17th-century Dutch antecedents. Others, like “Japanese Teapot Still Life,” appear to be more modern in their ...

As a result, Dutch and German art started to develop ... Bottles of wine or smoking pipes were also frequent elements of vanitas still-life paintings and both referred to the sinful excesses ...

35.5 x 31.7 cm. (14 x 12.5 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

only that he came to art at an early age and embarked on a successful career as a still life painter. At some point, he adopted the name Torrentius, translating the Dutch word “beeck” (brook ...