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In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting Part I: 17th – 18th Centuries
Feb 12, 2010 - May 02, 2010
The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is currently organising an ambitious international exhibition dedicated to the theme of European still life painting, the first of its kind to be held in Portugal.
Entitled “In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting”, the exhibition will be presented in two parts and will consist of a series of masterpieces by renowned European artists from the beginnings of the genre up to the mid-20th century.
The first part, which will be on show from February 12th to May 2nd, 2010, brings together 71 paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Works from the 19th and 20th centuries will be shown from October 21st, 2011 to January 8th, 2012.
This exhibition will explore the abiding themes of still life across nearly four hundred years: the fruit piece, the game piece, kitchen and banquet still lifes, the flower painting, musical instruments, the cabinet of curiosities, and the trompe-l’oeil. The diversity of artistic treatment of these themes in different countries will be shown through related works, such as the fruit still lifes of the female artists Louise Moillon and Fede Galizia or the kitchen scenes by Jean-Siméon Chardin and Luis Meléndez.
Other artists who cultivated this genre and who are also represented in the exhibition include Juan Sanchéz Cotán, Juan van der Hamen, Pieter Claesz, Juan Zurbarán, Rembrandt van Rijn, Antonio de Pereda, Nicolas Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Luis de Meléndez and Francisco de Goya.
Entitled “In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting”, the exhibition will be presented in two parts and will consist of a series of masterpieces by renowned European artists from the beginnings of the genre up to the mid-20th century.
The first part, which will be on show from February 12th to May 2nd, 2010, brings together 71 paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Works from the 19th and 20th centuries will be shown from October 21st, 2011 to January 8th, 2012.
This exhibition will explore the abiding themes of still life across nearly four hundred years: the fruit piece, the game piece, kitchen and banquet still lifes, the flower painting, musical instruments, the cabinet of curiosities, and the trompe-l’oeil. The diversity of artistic treatment of these themes in different countries will be shown through related works, such as the fruit still lifes of the female artists Louise Moillon and Fede Galizia or the kitchen scenes by Jean-Siméon Chardin and Luis Meléndez.
Other artists who cultivated this genre and who are also represented in the exhibition include Juan Sanchéz Cotán, Juan van der Hamen, Pieter Claesz, Juan Zurbarán, Rembrandt van Rijn, Antonio de Pereda, Nicolas Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Luis de Meléndez and Francisco de Goya.
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The Calouste Gulbenkian Museum is currently organising an ambitious international exhibition dedicated to the theme of European still life painting, the first of its kind to be held in Portugal.
Entitled “In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting”, the exhibition will be presented in two parts and will consist of a series of masterpieces by renowned European artists from the beginnings of the genre up to the mid-20th century.
The first part, which will be on show from February 12th to May 2nd, 2010, brings together 71 paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Works from the 19th and 20th centuries will be shown from October 21st, 2011 to January 8th, 2012.
This exhibition will explore the abiding themes of still life across nearly four hundred years: the fruit piece, the game piece, kitchen and banquet still lifes, the flower painting, musical instruments, the cabinet of curiosities, and the trompe-l’oeil. The diversity of artistic treatment of these themes in different countries will be shown through related works, such as the fruit still lifes of the female artists Louise Moillon and Fede Galizia or the kitchen scenes by Jean-Siméon Chardin and Luis Meléndez.
Other artists who cultivated this genre and who are also represented in the exhibition include Juan Sanchéz Cotán, Juan van der Hamen, Pieter Claesz, Juan Zurbarán, Rembrandt van Rijn, Antonio de Pereda, Nicolas Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Luis de Meléndez and Francisco de Goya.
Entitled “In the Presence of Things. Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting”, the exhibition will be presented in two parts and will consist of a series of masterpieces by renowned European artists from the beginnings of the genre up to the mid-20th century.
The first part, which will be on show from February 12th to May 2nd, 2010, brings together 71 paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries. Works from the 19th and 20th centuries will be shown from October 21st, 2011 to January 8th, 2012.
This exhibition will explore the abiding themes of still life across nearly four hundred years: the fruit piece, the game piece, kitchen and banquet still lifes, the flower painting, musical instruments, the cabinet of curiosities, and the trompe-l’oeil. The diversity of artistic treatment of these themes in different countries will be shown through related works, such as the fruit still lifes of the female artists Louise Moillon and Fede Galizia or the kitchen scenes by Jean-Siméon Chardin and Luis Meléndez.
Other artists who cultivated this genre and who are also represented in the exhibition include Juan Sanchéz Cotán, Juan van der Hamen, Pieter Claesz, Juan Zurbarán, Rembrandt van Rijn, Antonio de Pereda, Nicolas Largillierre, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, Luis de Meléndez and Francisco de Goya.
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