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Juan Sanchez Cotan's Still Life with Quince, Cabbage, Melon and Cucumber is one of the pinnacles of the art. In this scene, fruit and veg are translated into pure form. Within an oblong stone ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Spanish painter Juan Sánchez Cotán worked at the turn of the 16th century, his hyperreal style and austere subject matter made him a revolutionary. Cotán probably would have been pleased ...

The composition of these elements feels altogether more searchingly curious. Cotan himself was a Carthusian, and a profound religious sensibility is at work here in this painting, giving the ...