Showing posts with label farmers market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farmers market. Show all posts

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Memento Mori

Abraham Mignon
Still Life with Fruit, Fish, and a Nest, c. 1675

Adriaen Coorte, 1697


Jan Davidsz. de Heem (1606-1683/4)

Can I only keep only posting about what I get at the famers market? I may have to start a whole new blog just for this...but the haul yesterday..it was lavish..it was decadent! If we had had some kind of out-of-season feathered fowl and a gaggle of bright-eyed herring hanging over the edge of the table, a Dutch Master could have come in and painted the whole overflowing bounty, a commentary on our overly-fruitful existence, a call for moderation, a reminder that life is fleeting...
Jan Davidsz de Heem
Vase of Flowers, c. 1660
painting images borrowed from the Rijkmuseum