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Game Birds, Table Setting,

Five Senses, Vanitas
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ð Baroque Still Life was hugely popular in

the Netherlands and R
 society.
ð Still Life had 2
 meanings that
people at the time understood, usually

 
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ðChiaroscuro
ðPainting from ›

ðï treme detail
ð-

 arrangement and
lighting
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Famous ïarly Baroque Paintings

Caravaggio, Artemisia Gentellischi,

The Conversion of Saul The Beheading of
Holofernas
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ð -ead animals from a hunt were a popular
subject.
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ð Look at:
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usually think of with Still Life.
ðriginally symbolic for the
good, 2

2 in life,
abundance, or even se uality
or sin.
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ð Look
at the way the light affects
how we see the different forms,
ƛHow does light affect the
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. Your eye travels from
one point to another around the picture in
a clockwise path.
ð Good composition keeps your eye moving
path..
on an harmonious path
ð The V
 is a traditionally strong
composition.
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CPSITIN
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ð INSïCTS were often added to a table
setting.
ð They symbolized the 
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of the
Ơgood lifeơ, and warned one of the
temptations of too much sweetness (can
lead to evilƦ.)
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ð Symbolism became more profound
ð bjects symbolizing the five senses of
humans were arranged on a table:
ƛ Sight
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bjects were chosen to symbolize pleasure
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ð This type of still life was meant to remind the

viewer of the fleeting quality of life. Life is
wonderful, but goes so FAST
ð hat do you think each object symbolizes

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CPSITIN
 ays to control eye movement
ð Folds of cloth
ð Positioning of objects, bodies
ð repetition of colors
ð ïmphasis from either highlights or
shadows.
ð Height of objects
ð -etails, te tures, or negative space
ð ïyes
hat would a modern
Vanitas still life
contain
Plan and assemble a Vanitas Still
Life of modern design. hat
objects would you use