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(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)Loading...Van Aelst painted this still-life (signed and dated lower right) in 1650, the year in which he entered the service of Ferdinand II de’Medici, grand duke of Toscany, and of his brother, Cardinal Carlo de’Medici. It is possible, that this painting was executed for the cardinal, who was the artist’s main patron in Florence. In this still-life Van AElst continues the tradition of fruit and flower painting that flourished in Delft from the early 1630s onward with the work of Balthasar van der Ast, Gillis de Bergh, and Evert van Aelst, Willem’s uncle.
(No Ratings Yet)Loading...A work of beauty, I am thinking that the use of colors cannot be done any better. Look at those wonder full color adoptions. If you look at this work, the symmetry is simply awesome.
