Juriaen van streeck biography of rory

          Vanitas Still-Life with a Skull, a Book and Roses, circa

        1. Hendrick van Streeck ( – post–), Dutch painter of interiors.
        2. Including paintings by Roelof van Vries,.
        3. A glass roemer vine leaves and oranges in a stone niche by Juriaen vanStreeck.
        4. Image to prompt with BLIP and CLIP.

          5. Including paintings by Roelof van Vries,..

          Willem Claesz Heda – Banquet Piece with Mince Pie, 1635 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

          As Washington’s National Gallery of Artnotes, among these trappings of wealth and indulgence, familiar omens of impermanence—and ultimately death—linger in the picture, where much is amiss: glasses are broken and goblets toppled; the pie lies half-eaten; the candle has gone out.

          The empty oyster shells littering the table advise a similar moral caution. As today, oysters were regarded as powerful aphrodisiacs. Juxtaposed with the uneaten roll in the center of the painting, the oysters suggest that these unseen banqueters, after enjoying the pleasures of the flesh, have ignored their salvation, signified by the bread of life.

          In his 1990 book of essaysLooking at the Overlooked, art historian Norman Bryson calls such a scene—of tipped-over goblets, stacked plates, rumpled tablecloths, and broken glasses—a “still life of disorder” that represents the ongoing battle between vic