Did you know that cherries and strawberries represented the souls of men? Or that a dragonfly could be the devil? These beautiful works say much more than you think, writes Cath Pound. Still-life ...

Summer is just around the corner and you know what that means: nature is blooming, flowers are popping up from the once frozen ground, and the literal fruit of farmers’ labor is bountiful and ...

From Caravaggio’s contemporaries ... dead things on them—hunters’ trophies, cut flowers, decaying fruit—there was still enough room for life and movement. Many such paintings included ...

Awash with rich imagery of fruit, flowers and humble domestic objects, this lively take on the story of still life encompasses the work of some of the genre's greatest artists from Caravaggio to ...

The Origin of the still life in Italy - Caravaggio and the Master of Hartford' includes such masterpieces as the 'Basket of Fruit', on special loan from the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan ...

So, to grab people’s attention, we stole priceless fruit from a world-famous art museum and threw it in a Philips blender.” Still Life with Flowers and Fruit, c. 1728 by Jan van Huysum ...