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          Juriaen van Streeck.

        1. Juriaan van Streek was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for his still life paintings.
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        3. Juriaen van Streeck or Juriaan van Streek (February 29, , Amsterdam; buried June 12, , Amsterdam) was a Dutch still life painter of the Golden Age. He.
        4. It was acquired by the Princeton University Art Museum at auction in as a work by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Juriaen van Streeck.
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          Willem Claesz Heda – Banquet Piece with Mince Pie, 1635 National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

          As Washington’s National Gallery of Artnotes, among these trappings of wealth and indulgence, familiar omens of impermanence—and ultimately death—linger in the picture, where much is amiss: glasses are broken and goblets toppled; the pie lies half-eaten; the candle has gone out.

          The empty oyster shells littering the table advise a similar moral caution. As today, oysters were regarded as powerful aphrodisiacs. Juxtaposed with the uneaten roll in the center of the painting, the oysters suggest that these unseen banqueters, after enjoying the pleasures of the flesh, have ignored their salvation, signified by the bread of life.

          In his 1990 book of essaysLooking at the Overlooked, art historian Norman Bryson calls such a scene—of tipped-over goblets, stacked plates, rumpled tablecloths, and broken glasses—a “still life of disorder” that represents the ongoing battle between vic