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Monthly Archives: May 2012

The Butcher’s Shop – Passerotti 1580’s

Bartolomeo  Passerotti  1529 – 1592 Detail:  knife,  food, meat, meat hooks, butchering

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Still Life with Stag Beetle – Flegel 1635

Georg Flegel  1566 – 1638 Keeping with the bugs and food theme from the other day. Detail: beetle, fish food, knife, plate, onion, glass goblet, jug, bread, wine, cheese. delft

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Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness – Sailmaker 1708

Isaac Sailmaker  1633-1721 Detail:  Ships, boats, sailor clothing, sailboat

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Study of Farm Cart – Alexander

William Alexander, 1767-1816 Detail: farm cart, basket, farmer, barn, whip.

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The Welsh Curate – Hearne

Thomas Hearne, 1744-1817 Detail: bed, bench, bowls, shoes, breeches, coat, hat, knife, potatoes, cup, fire, fireplace, kettle, S-hook, wig

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The Four Elements – Stoskopff 1635

Sebastian Stoskopff  1597 – 1657 Detail  woodpeckers, brazier, plate, artichoke, wood tub, fish.

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Still Life with Bread and Fish – Flegel 1637

Georg Flegel  1566 – 1638 Now that is a big fly or maybe the loaf of bread is really small. Detail:  Pitcher, bread, fish, plate, parsley, fly

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A Ship’s Boat – Scott

Samuel Scott, ca. 1702-1772  from the Yale Center for British Art Very interesting wash showing the variation in sailors clothing. Detail: sailors, boat, naval clothing, oars, rope, cloth caps, tricorn, officers

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Boy with a Basket of Bread – Baschenis about 1665

Evaristo Baschenis  1617 – 1677 Day 5 of Bread week. Detail:  boy,  bread, fancy bread,  shirt

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Still Life with Bread – Schooten 17th century

Floris Gerritsz. van Schooten 1590 – 1655 Day four of bread week! Detail: cheese, silver beaker, bread, biscuits, biskets, butter, currents, knife This painting depicts a still-life of cheese, a silver beaker, bread on a pewter dish, butter in a blue-and-white bowl, together with red- and white-currants, a knife and biscuits on a table draped … Continue reading »

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