Document Still-life Paintings

Title: Part Of My Bookshelf Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 13 x 8.5 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: ...

Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban ins...

A moody, tonal landscape with a relaxed, contemporary sensibility. Subtle color shifts and soft edges create depth without overwhelming a space. This piece works especially well in l...

Extraordinary in its beauty and rarity, this early 16th-century German painting of an illuminated manuscript showcases a masterful trompe l’oeil effect. Unequivocally among the finest of only 17 known works of its kind, the oil on panel is both rare and captivating. With illusory pages that appear to leap from the panel, this virtuosic painting of a hand-colored book suspended into space is exceptional. Created more than four centuries ago, the composition evokes a strong sense of realism. Executed by a masterful Northern Renaissance artist of the German school, the illuminated manuscript pictured shows the astonishing splendor of the historical books of the period. Sumptuously decorated with scrolling floral motifs in the margins, the manuscript appears before a deep black background, heightening the trompe l’oeil illusion of depth through its strong contrast and the naturalistic shadows falling across the fluttering pages. It has been said that of the 17 known versions of this composition, ours stands alone in its precision in both perspective and the play of light and shadow. The visible folios feature choral arrangements and other texts, indicating the pictured manuscript likely served a role in the celebration of church services. In fact, other examples of manuscript paintings...

Carl Smith is an American artist who has been living in Berlin, Germany, since 2001. He works with a combination of silkscreen printing, collage, and painting to create his urban ins...

The European Academy recognized still-life painting as the lowest form in its hierarchy. Being the depiction of the things of everyday life, it was considered a poor container for th...

Title: Collection 7 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18 x 20 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2000 Circa Artist: DongXing Huang...

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A warm glow from a flickering candle illuminates the scene, casting soft light across every object. An antique clock nestled within a sculpture evokes a sense o...

Title: Collection 9 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 30 x 14 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painti...

Title: Collection Version IV Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18 x 21 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: Th...

An oil painting by Sarah Lamb. Painting dimensions: 18 x 27 inches Framed dimensions: 26 x 35 inches Framed in a 4-inch gold traditional frame. Signed "SKLamb 2013" on lower left...

Title: All The Letters Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 8.5 x 12 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 ...

The ninth "Books and Butterflies" painting from Steven Levin, and the ONLY remaining available from the series... A meticulously rendered still life painting of a tower of books, sta...

“Les Humanities CCVIII”, a large and wonderful acrylic on canvas painting by Paul Béliveau, was created in 2006. This panting depicting books on a shelf is considered to be in the Tr...

This extremely rare work on paper by Anselm Kiefer is the one and only silkscreen and signed edition on paper Anselm Kiefer ever made. Printed on a prestigious BKF Rives Paper (fines...

The book of life, where everything is written and sealed. Your happiness and your suffering. You are here to witness your own choices. Inspired by a silhouette of the Nile River an...

Patrick Nevin's (US based) "Quoting Sagan" is an oil painting that depicts a human skull situated with books and letter blocks, and other various object...

Dean Drahos (American, 1937-2010) Rose Mallow Ephemeral, 1997 Acrylic on canvas Signed and dated on right side panel, titled in stencil on both sides of panels of canvas 16 x 16 inch...

Firmado por el autor en la parte inferior En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado, fechado del año 1971 y titulado "Viejos libros" El estado de la obra es aceptable Se presenta...

Digital illustration, print, illustration for a children magazine, suitable for children, signed by the author, limited 5.

I take , dull, dry academicism. I transform academicism into bright, exuberant contemporary art! Academism is dead, in this project I study myself through the prism of time of my ...

I take , dull, dry academicism. I transform academicism into bright, exuberant contemporary art! Academism is dead, in this project I study myself through the prism of time of my vi...

This original oil painting by Megan Eisenberg is of the classic vintage paperback "The Island" by Peter Benchley. It was made with high quality Gam...

Choose the color of the frame: wood or black Sophie Dumont, a renowned painter known for her mastery of color and texture, presents "Clin d’Œil," an artwork where abstraction meets s...

KK Kozik is an artist living and working in Sharon, CT and Brooklyn, NY. Her paintings have ben exhibited widely in the United States and abroad and have been reviewed in publications such as The New York Times, Artforum, The New Yorker and Art in America, among others. Images of her commission for the New York MTA, stained glass windows at the Rockaway Beach...

A second life for academism, mothballs, frameworks, prohibitions, conditions, and laws. I take dry and boring academism and transform it into vibrant, joyful contemporary art. Acade...

English artist Jonjo Elliot's large scale still life works are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments t...

A second life for academism, mothballs, frameworks, prohibitions, conditions, and laws. I take dry and boring academism and transform it into vibrant, joyful contemporary art. Academ...

Title: One Book Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 7.5 x 12 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Circa ...

Title: Collection Version II Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19.5 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: ...

Title: The Photographer Showed Me His Album Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 19 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condi...

Title: Collection 1 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 19 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Note: This painting is unstretched Year: 2000 Circa Artist: DongXing Huang...

Title: Poker Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 27 x 23 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000 Circa Arti...

Using song lyrics combined with Penguin classic book covers, Don Pollack opens us up to a discussion of the current state of our environment in this oi...

Still Life Of A Book Featuring A "Monastic Ode", 18th Century English School - Unique Still Life - Signed W. J. Fine large 18th Century English still life study of an opened book l...

Ayse Wilson is a Turkish-American artist who lives and lives and works in Connecticut. Her work draws from memory and emotion to remind viewers of youth, innocence and the timeless space we occupy when we are young. Wilson graduated from Wellesley College...

Giclee on canvas. Hand signed lower right by Doug Bloodworth. Hand numbered 24/150 lower right. Canvas size 38 x 50 inches. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent co...

The European Academy recognized still-life painting as the lowest form in its hierarchy. Being the depiction of the things of everyday life, it was considered a poor container for th...

Hardbound books in black, orange and yellow are stacked with magazines and soft cover books. In a surreal shift of scale bright orange construction ladders are leaned against the b...

This watercolor painting by New York artist Thomas Broadbent depicts a tall stack of books with an open book on the top mimicking architectural constructions. Broadbent has shown ex...

acrylic and oil paint on board

acrylic and oil paint on board

acrylic and oil paint on board

acrylic and oil on board

acrylic and oil paint on board

acrylic and oil on board

acrylic and oil on board

An oil painting by Linda Rosenzweig Prince from 1981. A photo-realistic painting of of news stand magazines piles forming a layered landscape. Signed and dated verso, framed in cherr...