An “arboreal archaeologist,” Dalla Ragione scours Renaissance paintings and medieval archives ... way that you might expect ...

Still-life painting has existed since time immemorial ... It was the rediscovery of texts such as these during the Renaissance that inspired artists to try and recreate them, and the intellectual ...

The famed Renaissance man Leone Battista Alberti ... produced more conventional still life paintings. Bimbi memorializes the fleeting stuff of his patrons' gardens—pears and other fruits.

Typically, still life paintings come in one of two kinds ... including his favored countryman, the Renaissance muralist Piero della Francesca.) But nature is rarely represented among the objects ...

“It’s fun to go to art museums and see the still-life pictures ... they too will have to look at Renaissance art. “In the painting, the black seeds indicate that the fruit has reached ...

Still-life painting has existed since time immemorial ... It was the rediscovery of texts such as these during the Renaissance that inspired artists to try and recreate them, and the intellectual ...