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Banquet Still Life, Adriaen van Utrecht

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Original – Banquet Still Life, by Adriaen van Utrecht, 1644. A feast of fruits, food, drink, exotic objects, musical instruments, a dog, parrot and a monkey - is depicted in this painting - where the painter's sense of rhythm enables him to capture the vital element in each of his objects. As a consequence, his compositions unfold a most refined elegance: both elaborate and complex, radiant with the purple of the shelfish, the golden of the lemons and metal objects and the soft flesh of fruits. Everything is painted with precision and virtuosity.

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Adriaen van Utrecht (1599–1652) was a celebrated Flemish Baroque still life painter of the Antwerp school. He painted mainly still lifes, paintings of hunting scenes and was also know as a skilled animal painter.

Articles in which this image appears

Adriaen van Utrecht, Pronkstilleven, Dutch Golden Age painting

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Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings

Creator

Adriaen van Utrecht

• Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 15:32, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Useful. Going on a still-life binge, Haffy? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 16:13, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

• ^{Yes, we have no still lifes, Hafspajen (talk) 16:17, 6 October 2014 (UTC)}

• With that toy dog in there, it can't be completely still.... Sca (talk) 17:57, 6 October 2014 (UTC)

• ^{Still lifes did contained living animals sometimes in the Dutch Golden Age... see Still life Hafspajen (talk) 18:00, 6 October 2014 (UTC)}

• Yip, yip, yip, yip! Sca (talk) 23:25, 6 October 2014‎ (UTC)

• _{^{Hafspajen (talk) 23:47, 6 October 2014 (UTC)}}

• Support Stunning, never seen this before. Brandmeister^talk 22:35, 6 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - Fantastic detail.--Godot13 (talk) 05:43, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support It's a lovely painting. Lighting could have been slightly better - cracks are hard to minimize the view of, though, and it is otherwise, excellent. Adam Cuerden ^(talk) 19:03, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support An excellent painting --ȸ (talk) 20:35, 12 October 2014 (UTC)

Promoted File:Banquet Still Life, Adriaen van Utrecht, 1644 - Rijksmuseum.jpg --The herald 15:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

• 6 support, 0 oppose... The herald 15:29, 16 October 2014 (UTC)
  • @The Herald: In the future please don't close nominations until the voting period didn't ended. Thanks. Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 15:34, 16 October 2014 (UTC)