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Pieter Claesz (1597–1660): Early Still Lifes in Haarlem

Still life occupied an ambiguous position in seventeenth-century Dutch painting. It was admired for the extraordinary skill with which painters could reproduce the sheen of metal, the transparency of glass, the texture of fruit or bread and the fall of light across a table, yet in theoretical accounts it remained low in the hierarchy ofContinue reading “Pieter Claesz (1597–1660): Early Still Lifes in Haarlem”