Still life painting would serve as not only a vehicle for formal experimentation for Renoir but also a way to chill out. “Painting flowers is a form of mental relaxation,” the artist said ...

Historians of the still life genre, such as Norman Bryson in his book “ Looking at the Overlooked: Four Essays on Still Life Painting ” are quick to point out that the Xenia, though recognizable to ...

The Kimbell Art Museum’s yearslong quest to own a still-life painting by Jean Siméon Chardin has come to an end. The Cut Melon, a rare oval-shaped piece from the 18th-century French artist, has ...

Still Life and the Beauty of Becoming,” an exhibit featuring a collection of approximately 30 still-life paintings, will be ...

Conservators estimate that the painting, simply called Still Life, was created in 1640, when the younger Heda was still a teenager. “He was so young and so gifted,” Pinchin said.