Arrestingly real and dramatically arranged, this still life by Juan Sánchez Cotán is more than 400 years old, but it looks like it could have been painted by a modern realist. It is “universally ...

When Juan Sánchez Cotán painted this masterpiece, no one even knew what a still life was Coming into the Art Institute of Chicago off that great city’s streets (where, as Saul Bellow wrote, everything ...

View Juan (Fray) Sanchez y Cotan’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Images are mostly not for looking at. They are for being there and having around. Take family photos. A grandmother, say, sits in her sitting room, surrounded by framed pictures that are set up on ...

Some pictures emerge from mysterious origins; others embody mystery itself. Juan Sánchez Cotán’s “Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber” (c. 1602) does both. We know something of the ...

Looking at a painting and getting hungry? It might be a bodegón! Here we define the genre of Spanish bodegones in the context of 17th-century European painting and acknowledge its ties to Italian and ...

There is currently 1 group exhibition showcasing the works of Juan Sánchez Cotán in Kyoto (Japan).Current group exhibitions ...