Still life ("nature morte") | DMA Staging Content Management System

GENERAL DESCRIPTION

Still life typically refers to a depiction of inanimate objects. In France, still lifes are called nature morte, literally "dead nature."

NOTES

See my comments in portraiture note-- that these terms may be easier to relate to objects if we added the genre of the object somewhere in TMS cataloguing. Wrote BMac about this suggestion on November 6, 2015. This idea would make it easier to write rules for CC such as "French Landscape Painting in the 19th Century" as well.

From Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Carolyn Johnson, Cecilia Leach, Diane McClure, and Catherine Proctor, "Glossary," in The Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Teaching Packet, 1995.

Note from Getty AAT entry: Images in which the focus is a depiction of inanimate objects, as distinguished from art in which such objects are subsidiary elements in a composition. The term is generally applied to depictions of fruit, flowers, meat or dead game, vessels, eating utensils, and other objects, including skulls, candles, and hourglasses, typically arranged on a table. Such images were known since the time of ancient Greece and Rome; however, the subject was exploited by some 16th-century Italian painters, and was highly developed in 17th-century Dutch painting, where the qualities of form, color, texture, and composition were valued, and the images were intended to relay allegorical messages. The subject is generally seen in oil paintings, though it can also be found in mosaics, watercolors, prints, collages, and photographs. The term originally included paintings in which the focus was on living animals at rest, although such depictions would now be called "animal paintings."

As written the rule reaches 77 objects and 43 items in D3C content. I added more department tags based on these results.

March 7, 2017- I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review.

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General Description

Still life typically refers to a depiction of inanimate objects. In France, still lifes are called nature morte, literally "dead nature."

Fun Facts

Archival Resources

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Notes

See my comments in portraiture note-- that these terms may be easier to relate to objects if we added the genre of the object somewhere in TMS cataloguing. Wrote BMac about this suggestion on November 6, 2015. This idea would make it easier to write rules for CC such as "French Landscape Painting in the 19th Century" as well.

From Ken Kelsey, Gail Davitt, Carolyn Johnson, Cecilia Leach, Diane McClure, and Catherine Proctor, "Glossary," in The Reves Collection at the Dallas Museum of Art, Teaching Packet, 1995.

Note from Getty AAT entry: Images in which the focus is a depiction of inanimate objects, as distinguished from art in which such objects are subsidiary elements in a composition. The term is generally applied to depictions of fruit, flowers, meat or dead game, vessels, eating utensils, and other objects, including skulls, candles, and hourglasses, typically arranged on a table. Such images were known since the time of ancient Greece and Rome; however, the subject was exploited by some 16th-century Italian painters, and was highly developed in 17th-century Dutch painting, where the qualities of form, color, texture, and composition were valued, and the images were intended to relay allegorical messages. The subject is generally seen in oil paintings, though it can also be found in mosaics, watercolors, prints, collages, and photographs. The term originally included paintings in which the focus was on living animals at rest, although such depictions would now be called "animal paintings."

As written the rule reaches 77 objects and 43 items in D3C content. I added more department tags based on these results.

March 7, 2017- I am removing the routed tag and adding the completed tag. The GDoc has been moved to Queta's folders for review.