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Judith and Holofernes
Madonna with child
San Sebastiano cured by the angels
Madonna of the straw
Salome with the head of the Baptist
The elegant snack
Corsini throne
Venus reaches dying Adonis
Dispute of Jesus among the doctors
The torture of Prometheus
Denial of Peter
Madonna of the milk
Triptych with Ascension, Last Judgment, Pentecost
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The hare
Polyptych with Madonna and Child with Saints
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The elegant snack

Christian Berentz

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Corsini Gallery

Corsini Gallery

Via della Lungara, 10 , Rome

Open, closing soon last entry 17:00

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When Berentz, a German painter who spends most of his life in Rome, paints The Elegant Snack, still life took on the dignity of an autonomous pictorial genre for a century. The peculiarity of this painting is the contrast between the frugality of the meal and the preciousness of the objects, between the refinement of the context and the apparent disorder of some details: the raised edge of the tablecloth that reveals the underlying wood and reveals the half-open drawer, the orange caps, the bread almost poised. The sophisticated goblets, the silver cutlery, the golden snuffbox indicate the social level of the diners. The lower right corner of the table points towards the observer and the non-frontality of the scene increases the sense of provisionality of the vision. Still lifes, especially from the seventeenth century onwards, in their built realism, are not exempt from symbolic meanings, which have to do with the fragility of matter and the transience of time. The painting is signed and dated in the inner left corner of the tablecloth (C.B. 1717).
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Title: The elegant snack

Author: Christian Berentz

Date: 1717

Technique: Oil painting on canvas

Displayed in: Corsini Gallery

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