NEW YORK, Dec. 15 -- "The Still Lifes of Evaristo Baschenis: The Silence of Music" (Edizioni Olivares, 134 pp. $30) is a book that heralds the rediscovery of an obscure Italian Baroque still life ...

Piles of plump cucumbers, juicy watermelons and ripe tomatoes fill the paintings by little-known Spanish artist Luis Melendez to advertise nature’s bounty.

In reality, early 20th-century Italian art-world politics were just as fluid, confusing, ... The selections bounce from a still life done in hard-edged, ...

As genres go, Italian still-life painting isn’t a ghost town, exactly, but it evokes more than its share of dust and tumbleweeds. It’s just a fact that French fruit bowls and Dutch lemon peels ...

Bid now on Italian Still Life, New York, September 1981 by Irving Penn. View a wide Variety of artworks by Irving Penn, now available for sale on ... almost a voluptuousness.” Born on June 16, 1917 in ...

NEW YORK — “Giorgio Morandi: 1890-1964,” the enthralling exhibition of 110 paintings, drawings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is a bit of a surprise, but not for revealing an ...

But the other factor keeping Italian still lifes from the limelight is the fame of the Dutch Golden Age and the artists that revolutionized the genre. One of the first names that come to mind when ...

Italian Still Life, New York, September 1981, 1981. Dye transfer print ... NJ, he studied art and design under Alexey Brodovitch at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art in Philadelphia ...