Natureza morta (still life)

Género de pintura proveniente da Grécia antiga e muito empregado em Pompeia. Está relacionado com seres e objectos inanimados como jarros ou cestos de vidro, metal ou porcelana onde se colocam flores e frutos. Muito divulgado a partir do séc. XVI.

Painting genre from ancient Greece, widely used in Pompeii. It is related to inanimate beings and objects such as vases or baskets made of glass, metal or porcelain to dispose flowers and fruit. This genre has been widely used since 16th century.

Pompeian painter-'still life with glass bowl of fruit and vases'-fresco-ca 70 AD Napoli-Museo Archeologico Nazional (from Pompeii-casa di Julia Felix)

Ambrosius Bosschaert, the elder (1573-1621)-'still life with flowers'-oil on copper-ca 1619 Private collection

Master of the Hartford still life-'fruit still-life with a vase of flowers'-oil on canvas-ca 1600 Spoleto-Pinacoteca Comunale

Georg Flegel (1566-1638)-'still life with eggs'-oil on wood Aschaffenburg-Staatsgemäldesammlung

Hans Memling (ca 1430-1494)-'vase with flowers'-oil on wood-ca 1480 Madrid-Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza