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Lobster from Vallayer Coster

Anne Vallayer-Coster (1744 – 1818) was an 18th-century French painter best known for her still lifes. She achieved fame and recognition very early in her career and was admitted to the Académie Roy...

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Carpaccio of citrus fruit by Zuburan

The Spanish artist de Zuburan is best known for his portraits of saints. Yet this is also a masterpiece due to the symmetrical arrangement of household objects. The painting is tranquil. All senses...

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Violets by Warhol; salad with flowers

Warhol co-founded the pop art movement as a response to abstract expressionism. Warhol also explores the language of mass culture with simple colors with the violets. Flowers belongs to a series ba...

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Nittis BBQ Breakfast

Giuseppe de Nitti's breakfast-in-the-garden (1883)Pinacoteca "Giuseppe De Nittis" For Breakfast in the garden, Giuseppe de Nittis portrayed his wife and son. Breakfast in nature is one of the mos...

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Lemon Cake by Manet

Edouard Manet, The Lemon (1880)Musee D'orsayManet came from a Parisian bourgeois background and was sent around the world by his father to look around and discover everything. After his six-month s...

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Pomegranate and Melon (soup) from Helmantel

Helmantel makes beautiful still lifes and it is difficult to choose which one you want to hang on your wall in real life. Like photos, but with atmosphere. Lifelike but oh so artistic. Henk Helmant...

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Oysters by Jean-Francois Troy

This time in Art & Food a dish that was first food for the poor and slowly became more and more exclusive: Oysters. A number of paintings have been made with oysters as the subject. From still ...

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Fresh Cheese from Vermeer

Vermeer only made 23 paintings that are now known. Yet everyone knows this artist for his Girl with the Pearl Earring and the serene house scene of the milkmaid is also world famous. In his day, se...

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