Notes:
"An exhibition of the Städel Museum Frankfurt and the Kunstmuseum Basel in cooperation with the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt."
Also published in German as: Die Magie der Dinge.
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition The Magic of Things--Still-Life Painting 1500-1800, Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, March 20 to August 17, 2008, Kunstmuseum Basel, September 5, 2008 to January 4, 2009."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 362-363).
Includes several examples of glassware in art.
Contents:
The still life before the still life / Stephan Kemperdick, Jochen Sander --
How Netherlandish artists brought still-life painting to the banks of the river Main / Gerhard Bott --
Vanitas and banquet still life / Fred G. Meijer --
From the waters : fish still life / Julie Berger Hochstrasser --
The "noble" game piece : origins and efflorescence / Ursula Härting --
Cartouche and niche paintings / Magdalena Kraemer-Noble --
Jan Davidsz. de Heem and his circle / Sam Segal --
The sottobosco / Magdalena Kraemer-Noble --
Willem Van Aelst and his school / Sam Segal --
Still-life painting in the eighteenth century / Heidrun Ludwig.
