Spirituality in stillness The 17th Century saw still-life painting flourish and divide into many different sub-genres including fruit and vegetable studies, meal still-lifes and vanitas painting.

Sotheby's For nearly 100 years, a still life by Flemish painter Clara Peeters, a forgotten 17th-century master, hung in a private collection in Belgium.

German police appealed Friday for information about the possible owners of two 17th-century paintings discovered in a highway rest stop dumpster.

Staten Island Advance/Irving Silverstein Erroneously tagged as a 19th-century piece, this Dutch genre oil painting on a chamfered oak panel actually dates from the 1600s.

The exhibition "The Two Centuries of American Still-Life Painting: The Frank and Michelle Hevrdejs Collection," a collection of still lifes, has some compelling artwork.

His pictures of raw vegetables, fruits and meats, arranged around ordinary kitchenware, are much plainer than better-known 17th-century Dutch paintings of floral bouquets and sumptuous banquets.

An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

Except there was an art book sitting on a little ottoman in front of me, and on the cover of it was a still-life painting. It was a 17th century Dutch breakfast painting.

In her memoir “Thunderclap,” the British art critic Laura Cumming explores her passion for the virtuosic images of everyday life by painters from Dutch art’s golden age.

Historians have been searching for a missing 17th-century painting for about 50 years.As it turns out, the painting was hiding in plain sight: It was hanging inside a New Rochelle, New York ...

The 17th Century saw still-life painting flourish and divide into many different sub-genres including fruit and vegetable studies, meal still-lifes and vanitas painting.