With its overripe, wizened, bruised fruit and empty sea-snail shells, this painting juxtaposes symbols of the transience of earthly things with those of the Resurrection and eternal life, embodied by the lizard, butterfly, and grasshopper.
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München
Citation
Balthasar van der Ast,
Stillleben mit Früchten und Seeschneckenhäusern, um 1635,
Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen - Alte Pinakothek München, URL: https://www.sammlung.pinakothek.de/en/artwork/M0xy6WALpl (Last updated on 25.05.2022)
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