An authoritative artist has many rules for his still life painting. Too bad! Because the mouse, the dragon, the knight, and the princess are here to break them in this raucous new picture book.

Meet the new Dutch master: Tjalf Sparnaay's food paintings are so gobsmacking in their level of detail, it's hard to resist the temptation to pick one up and take a bite.

What's the deal with still life painting? On this edition of Art 101, Professor Lise walks us through the history of this form of painting.

An exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art adds another dimension to Iberian hyper-realism. “Luis Meléndez: Master of the Spanish Still Life” brings together 27 paintings of fruits ...

A still life by Dutch master Clara Peeters coming to auction at Sotheby's London could become one of her priciest at auction.

On a hunch, a conservator at the Cincinnati Art Museum had an early Cézanne still life scanned using x-ray imaging, which showed a painted-over portrait by the Modern master ...

This is the world of Sarah Winman’s fourth novel, in which the beauty of art collides with the random tragedies of life and is not always victorious. And yet the response – how people choose ...