Still Life. The painting of inanimate objects such as flowers, vessels or fruit. This genre flourished especially among Dutch painters of the seventeenth century. The plural form is 'still lifes', not 'still lives' - which treats this term too literally.

"Basket of Fruits" (circa 1632) Balthasar van der Ast

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