Paintings

Still Life of Flowers, Fruit, Shells, and Insects

Still-life paintings are an important and much-admired type in seventeenth-century Dutch art. Van der Ast is considered a master of the “combined” still life composition; he had an exceptional ability […]

Kanzan and Jittoku

Ekkei became a Buddhist monk when he was 18. In time he became abbot of his own Zen temple and lived within the precincts of the great temple compound at […]

Eight Shrimp

Qi Baishi is acknowledged as one of the leading Chinese artists of the early twentieth century. In paintings of shrimp, he employs a different brush technique for each part of […]