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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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Pictology: good vs fake

Maurits Michiel van Dantzig (Rotterdam 1903 - Amsterdam 1960) was a Dutch art theorist, restorer and painter. However, most people in the arts know him for his theory about good versus false painti...

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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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Dutch Pointillism

Pointillism, 'invented' by George Seurat and Paul Signac, is the application of dots of paint in unmixed colors to the canvas. This technique really brings the light in the painting to life. The ef...

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Flower still life

The Romans already painted still lifes on walls, as can be seen in Pompeii. Constantijn Huygens was the first to use the word "inanimatis" around 1630 when describing the work of Jacques de Gheyn a...

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Cheek of veal by Anton Mauve

Mauve was one of the Hague School painters who captured various facets of outdoor life en plein air; he became famous for his heathland landscapes with flocks of sheep where the skies merge with th...

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Landscape as a genre

Mountains, rivers, forests and the sea have been attractive to artists for centuries. In the early 15th century, landscape painting emerged as a separate genre in Europe. Certainly in the beginning...

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