Classic still life

The story of the still life presented in the album helps to trace the formation and change of artistic styles - from mannerism to Baroque, bypassing the arrogant classicism, to Rococo and realism.
Still life as a genre has always been balanced between two poles - spiritual meaningfulness and sensual beauty. On the one hand, the world of objects is saturated with divine, hypertensive value, on the other - their form, color, taste, smell are beautiful. Still-life can be considered as a reflection of the author"s inner world and the evidence of the era in which he was created. With the development of painting saturation with meaning, the indispensable sign of nature is gradually displaced by love for the material shell, which can be seen and spiritual gaze is just like the beauty of the subject. And this beauty removes the contradiction between sensual and rational