Arrestingly real and dramatically arranged, this still life by Juan Sánchez Cotán is more than 400 years old, but it looks like it could have been painted by a modern realist. It is “universally ...

Images are mostly not for looking at. They are for being there and having around. Take family photos. A grandmother, say, sits in her sitting room, surrounded by framed pictures that are set up on ...

Click the FOLLOW button to be the first to know about this artist's upcoming lots, sold lots, exhibitions and articles Juan Sánchez Cotán was a Spanish Old Masters painter who was born in 1560. Juan ...

The day museums shut down for the COVID-19 pandemic was the day San Diego Museum of Art installed a new exhibition by contemporary artist Cauleen Smith — a video inspired by an early 1600s masterpiece ...

Some pictures emerge from mysterious origins; others embody mystery itself. Juan Sánchez Cotán’s “Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber” (c. 1602) does both. We know something of the ...

When Juan Sánchez Cotán painted this masterpiece, no one even knew what a still life was Coming into the Art Institute of Chicago off that great city’s streets (where, as Saul Bellow wrote, everything ...

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