03 — ARTWORK
Breakfast
SCHOOTEN, Floris Gerritsz. van · 1650 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on panel, 50 x 82 cm
- TYPE
- Still-Life
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COMMENTARY
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Paintings of food laid out on a table was popular from the beginning of the 17th century. Floris van Schooten was an early specialist of this category. He, as well as other specialists like Floris van Dijck (1575-1651) and Nicolaes Gillis (active c. 1610-30), worked at Haarlem, but interest in this subject was not confined to Haarlem, or indeed to painters working in Holland. In every country of Europe, early BaroqueThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies. artists reacted more spontaneously to the visual world than their predecessors did, and there are Flemish, French, German, Spanish, and Italian still-life painters who share the stylistic and iconographic features found in Floris van Schooten.
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title = {Breakfast by SCHOOTEN, Floris Gerritsz. van},
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date = {2026-09-13},
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}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
