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Sinaasappels van Matisse

Dit stilleven van sinaasappels maakte Henri Matisse in 1899. Een jaar ervoor had hij onderstaand werk gemaakt met een andere, meer post impressionistische stijl. Dit schilderij is al meer opgebouwd...

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Pain avec Brie van Bonvin

Francois Bonvin (Paris 1817-1887) was a French Realist painter who taught himself to paint and mainly painted still lifes and city scenes. Cheese often appears in French still lifes because it fits...

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Le Coq au Vin from Picasso

Picasso Le CockPicasso had an exhibition in New York in 1939. This famous work from 1938 of the screaming rooster still hangs in the MOMA. He wanted to portray the rooster's belligerence, brutality...

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Scallops by Botticelli

Botticelli created this painting, the Birth of Venus, in 1485 and it hangs in the Uffizi in Florence, commissioned by Lorenzo de' Medici. The painting is made with tempera on canvas and measures 17...

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Zeebrasem & Dorade van Rysselberghe

This morning we attended the beautiful exhibition of Theo van Rysselberghe in the Singer Museum where we got inspiration from a specific painting for our evening meal. Sea bream and sea bream from ...

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Ceviche of pike-perch by Van 't Hoff

If you drive through the Alps by car or train towards Italy, you will pass the most beautiful areas around Lake Maggiore, the Piedmont and, for example, Como. Adriaan van 't Hoff has depicted that ...

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Summer fruit from Acrimboldo

Guiseppe Acrimboldo, Summer (1550)This time the Art & Food blog is about an old work that almost everyone knows and still inspires many. Arcimboldo (1527-1593) owes his contemporary fame to the...

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Stuffed Artichoke from Jean Bernard

Last summer we were in Rome. One of the specialties was stuffed artichoke. Of course we had to taste this and looked for a work of art that matched it. Actually the process of this series is revers...

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