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Stillleben

Zeitlose Schönheit

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Edited by: Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Konstanze Krüger

Texts by: Konstanze Krüger

Graphic Design: Rutger Fuchs

German

November 2023, 160 Pages, 100 Photos

Hardcover

206mm x 258mm

ISBN: 978-3-7757-5113-1

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Magical Paintings

They fascinate us today as they did 500 years ago: elaborate compositions of exotic fruits or platters with oysters, floral arrangements and skulls, exquisitely decorated musical instruments and scientific instruments. Magical things testify to exuberant wealth and hedonism as well as to the enlightened curiosity and religious fervor of the Baroque era. This lavishly illustrated book that even features a pictorial glossary sets the stage for the internationally renowned collection of still lifes housed in Dresden’s Gemäldegalerie (Picture Gallery). Focusing on the dazzling masterpieces of Dutch and Flemish painting, this book examines the genre in all its diverse facets. What meaning, what content, and what function did still lifes have, what allegories and symbols are concealed in their coded messages? How did the artists take the game of optical illusion to extremes? More than 70 still lifes from the Dresden collection by painters such as Cornelis de Heem, Abraham Mignon, Rachel Ruysch, and Frans Snyders provide a unique insight into the golden age of this magical genre.

This book is also available in English.

EXHIBITION
“Timeless Beauty. A History of Still Life”
Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Zwinger
November 17, 2023–September 1, 2024