Still Life with Peaches and Water Jar
Classical art pieces are often given a high status. Many of these classical artists have been inspired by ancient the Greeks and Romans, when it comes it statues and buildings. Sadly, for paintings very little is known. For instance, The Still Life with Peaches remains without a known artist and only a very limited idea about the works of contemporaries. The Still Life with Peaches comes from a room in Herculaneum. It wasn't a free-standing image. Like other still lives, it was set on a wall among landscapes, narratives, decoration. But it occupied a contained square-ish section. And it uses the standard Roman still-life convention, the double (sometimes triple) level: the objects are arranged on a step
Classical art pieces are often given a high status. Many of these classical artists have been inspired by ancient the Greeks and Romans, when it comes it statues and buildings. Sadly, for paintings very little is known. For instance, The Still Life with Peaches remains without a known artist and only a very limited idea about the works of contemporaries. The Still Life with Peaches comes from a room in Herculaneum. It wasn't a free-standing image. Like other still lives, it was set on a wall among landscapes, narratives, decoration. But it occupied a contained square-ish section. And it uses the standard Roman still-life convention, the double (sometimes triple) level: the objects are arranged on a step