#Jan Davidsz. de Heem

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Still life with two lobsters, an overturned tankard, a berkemeier glass, grapes, and a lemon, Jan Davidsz. de Heem

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem (c. 1606-1684) "A Richly Laid Table with Parrot" (c. 1650) Oil on canvas Baroque Located in the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem - A Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull, a Book and Roses, 1630.

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1683/84) - Still Life

Panel, oil (49 x 64 cm)

Museo del Prado, Madrid

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Maria van Oosterwijck schilderde met een caravaggiaans tintje

Schilderes Maria van Oosterwijck (Oosterwyck) was een typisch 17-de eeuwse kunstenaar.Geboren in 1630 in Nootdorp, in de buurt van Delft, dochter van een predikant, schilderde ze stillevens en specifiek vanitas-thema’s. Haar vader nam haar op jonge leeftijd mee naar de galerie van Jan Davidszoon de Heem, die gespecialiseerd was in stillevens. Maria had belangstelling voor bloemen en talent om…

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insects in art: butterflies

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Jan Davidsz de Heem (Dutch,1606-1683/84)

Still Life with a Glass and Oysters, c. 1640

Oil on wood

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Still Life with Books and a Violin, Jan Davidsz. de Heem, 1628

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I'd be interested to know your thoughts on Jan Davidsz. de Heem's 1606-1683/4 Still Life. I saw it in an exhibition on Dutch flower paintings. Something about the abundance tips into overabundance for me, and my brain couldn't decide if it was beautiful or grotesque or both.

Link here https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-davidsz-de-heem-still-life

For me this abundance definitely doesn't quite tip into overabundance. It feels indulgent, but in a delightfully hedonistic way. It feels downright Dionysian.

For me, there's a wetness to this painting. The orange and the cherries (?) look almost like jewels to me with how they shine. The way the wine looks almost opaque is beautiful.

There's something too about how the plant life twists around. There's flowers, wheat, vines, all twisting around this scene. This feels wild, in sharp contrast to the deeply human way the orange was peeled and the oysters lay shucked. There's a snail sandwiched between wild looking cherries, still clinging to a twig, and wheat, something cultivated by man.

As I'll say a billion times, I love the richness of the colors. The dull earthy greens are contrasting against the bright sharpness of the warm tones in a way that just draws your eye to them.

I feel like those cherries have the same curse on them that the ring in Lord of the Rings did or whatever. I feel an intense need for them, and to keep them to myself.

Anyway, this painting both makes me feel hungry for fruit and makes me remember that all of humanity's creations will one day be overtaken by nature. Hail Lord Dionysus and all that, man.

6/10

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Festoon of Fruit and Flowers (detail), Jan Davidsz de Heem

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1: Persian tulip. Jan Davidsz de Heem, Vase of Flowers, 1670. 2 and 3: Flemish tulip. Jan Brueghel the Elder, Flowers in a Wan-Li Vase, c. 1610-1615. 4 and 5: Kurdistanica Tulip Hybrid, Red tulip hybrid and Fire tulip hybrid. Jacob de Gheyn II, Flowers in a Glass Flask, 1612.

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem, Still Life with Flowers in a Glass Vase, ca. 1660, oil/copper (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)

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Circle of Jan Davidsz de Heem : A rose parrot tulips morning glory

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Jan Davidsz. de Heem (Dutch, 1606–1683/1684) - Vase of Flowers (ca. 1660)

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