Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Butcher’s Shop – Passerotti 1580’s
Bartolomeo Passerotti 1529 – 1592 Detail: knife, food, meat, meat hooks, butchering
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
Ships in the Thames Estuary near Sheerness – Sailmaker 1708
Isaac Sailmaker 1633-1721 Detail: Ships, boats, sailor clothing, sailboat
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
The Four Elements – Stoskopff 1635
Sebastian Stoskopff 1597 – 1657 Detail woodpeckers, brazier, plate, artichoke, wood tub, fish.
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
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
Boy with a Basket of Bread – Baschenis about 1665
Evaristo Baschenis 1617 – 1677 Day 5 of Bread week. Detail: boy, bread, fancy bread, shirt
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