Painted in 1559, Pieter Aertsen’s The Cook gives an anonymous kitchen worker an unusually imposing pictorial presence. Nearly life-size within...
Pieter Aertsen’s Cook in front of the Stove, dated 1559, gives a kitchen worker the scale and pictorial authority that...
Pieter Aertsen’s Christ in the House of Martha and Mary makes the biblical narrative compete for attention with the physical...
Suspended plumage dominates Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life of Dead Birds and Hunting Weapons, painted in 1660, an oil on canvas...
Painted in 1656, Willem van Aelst’s Vase of Flowers with Pocket Watch brings together two subjects governed by very different...
Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Fruit and a Crystal Vase, painted around 1650 and now in the Galleria Palatina in...
Pieter Aertsen’s Market Scene with Christ and the Adulteress, when the eye first encounters it, unsettles the expected order of...
Painted in 1653, Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Fruit, Parrot, and Nautilus Pitcher is an oil on canvas measuring 77...
Into a nearly black field rises a branch laden with heavy citrus fruit, its pale leaves and rough skins interrupted...
Painted in 1652, Willem van Aelst’s Still-Life with Fruit and Crystal Vase brings together fruit, glass, metal and costly textiles...
Executed with meticulous linear precision and luminous tonal modulations, the stained-glass roundel depicting the biblical narrative of Susanna and the...
Overwhelming the visual field before any narrative context can be established, a chaotic accumulation of harvest produce demands immediate attention....