Images are mostly not for looking at. They are for being there and having around. Take family photos. A grandmother, say, sits in her sitting room, surrounded by framed pictures that are set up on ...

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 “universally ...

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, everything ...

View Juan (Fray) Sanchez y Cotan’s artworks on artnet. Learn about the artist and find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Some pictures emerge from mysterious origins; others embody mystery itself. Juan Sánchez Cotán’s “Still Life With Quince, Cabbage, Melon, and Cucumber” (c. 1602) does both. We know something of the ...

Looking at a painting and getting hungry? It might be a bodegón! Here we define the genre of Spanish bodegones in the context of 17th-century European painting and acknowledge its ties to Italian and ...

Luncheon Presentation by Ambassador Imron Cotan, Ambassador of the Republic of Indonesia to China Imron Cotan was appointed as Indonesian Ambassador to China in January 2010. He is a career diplomat ...

Cabbage—it’s not just for coleslaw and questionable soups. This leafy legend has been making waves in art history for centuries, captured in stunning paintings, eerie photographs, and even surrealist ...