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		<title>Pieter Aertsen: The Cook</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 10:58:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Painted in 1559, Pieter Aertsen’s The Cook gives an anonymous kitchen worker an unusually imposing pictorial presence. Nearly life-size within the tall, narrow field, she stands before an elaborate fireplace, her body turned towards the work while her face turns back towards the spectator. In her right hand she holds the long iron spit from which prepared poultry hangs; the other hand steadies the heavy cluster below. Her work clothes receive the same concentration that Aertsen brings to flesh and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pieter Aertsen: Cook in front of the Stove</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pieter Aertsen’s Cook in front of the Stove, dated 1559, gives a kitchen worker the scale and pictorial authority that sixteenth-century painting more commonly reserved for elevated figures. The woman rises almost through the entire vertical field, pressed forward by the massive stone chimney behind her and by the dense accumulation of food and utensils below. Aertsen, Amsterdam-born and long active in Antwerp, had already made the kitchen and market scene one of the most experimental areas of Netherlandish painting. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pieter Aertsen: Christ in the House of Martha and Mary</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pieter Aertsen’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary makes the biblical narrative compete for attention with the physical abundance of ordinary life. Dated 27 July 1553, the large oil-on-panel painting measures 126 × 200 cm and is preserved in the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The museum’s collection record documents both the unusually precise date and the work’s material details. Aertsen, who was born in Amsterdam around 1508, spent an important part of his career in Antwerp [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willem van Aelst: Still-Life of Dead Birds and Hunting Weapons</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:18:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[1660 oil painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dead Game Painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dutch Golden Age still life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Suspended plumage dominates Willem van Aelst&#8217;s Still-Life of Dead Birds and Hunting Weapons, painted in 1660, an oil on canvas measuring approximately 86.5 × 68 cm and now in the Gemäldegalerie of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. The vertical format is unusually well suited to the subject. From above descend cords, birds and feathers, while a firearm crosses the lower part of the canvas and a dark garment falls heavily over the edge of the supporting surface. Nothing has been [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willem van Aelst: Vase of Flowers with Pocket Watch</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 10:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Painted in 1656, Willem van Aelst&#8217;s Vase of Flowers with Pocket Watch brings together two subjects governed by very different measures of time. A bouquet rises from a dark vessel in a succession of pale pink, white, orange and deeper red blossoms, some fully opened, others turning away or remaining in bud. At the foot of this floral abundance lies the object named in the title: a pocket watch, its gold-toned case opened upon the marble ledge and attached to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willem van Aelst: Still-Life with Fruit and a Crystal Vase</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 10:36:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Willem van Aelst&#8217;s Still-Life with Fruit and a Crystal Vase, painted around 1650 and now in the Galleria Palatina in Florence, gathers a modest repertory of fruit, glass, foliage and fabric into a composition of unusual chromatic concentration. The painting, an oil on canvas measuring 77 × 102 cm, belongs to the early maturity of a Dutch painter born in Delft in 1627 and active until about 1683. Nothing in the arrangement is crowded for its own sake. Grapes spread [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pieter Aertsen: Market Scene with Christ and the Adulteress</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:23:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pieter Aertsen’s Market Scene with Christ and the Adulteress, when the eye first encounters it, unsettles the expected order of a religious picture almost immediately. The biblical episode of Christ and the woman accused of adultery (John 8:3–11) is present, yet it is pushed into the middle distance, while the foreground belongs to market women, poultry, fruit, vegetables, bread, eggs, pottery and baskets packed so densely that the picture first appears to proclaim the abundance of ordinary life. Aertsen, an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willem van Aelst: Still-Life with Fruit, Parrot, and Nautilus Pitcher</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:26:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dutch Golden Age still life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Painted in 1653, Willem van Aelst&#8217;s Still-Life with Fruit, Parrot, and Nautilus Pitcher is an oil on canvas measuring 77 × 102 cm, now in the Galleria Palatina of the Palazzo Pitti in Florence. Its first impression is one of concentrated luxury. Against a nearly black ground, objects emerge one by one into light: a mounted nautilus shell at the left, a tall vessel, richly worked, behind it, fruit spread across a low platter, a dark vessel with elaborate mounts, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willem van Aelst: Still-Life with Fruit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Into a nearly black field rises a branch laden with heavy citrus fruit, its pale leaves and rough skins interrupted by the sudden movement of small goldfinches. Willem van Aelst built this unusually spare arrangement in Still-Life with Fruit, painted in 1664 and now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid. The oil on canvas, measuring 67 × 52 cm, belongs to the mature phase of a painter who had made the still life one of the most technically exacting forms of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Willem van Aelst: Still-Life with Fruit and Crystal Vase</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[T. M. Pafilis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:58:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Painted in 1652, Willem van Aelst&#8217;s Still-Life with Fruit and Crystal Vase brings together fruit, glass, metal and costly textiles within a composition whose richness depends upon restraint. The work, an oil on canvas measuring 73 × 58 cm and now in the Galleria Palatina at Palazzo Pitti in Florence, belongs to the painter&#8217;s early maturity. Van Aelst, born in Delft in 1627 and later active in Amsterdam, constructs the picture vertically, allowing a tall crystal vessel to rise above [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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