1885 · F117 · JH946
Still Life with Bible
Still Life with Bible, 1885. Meaning, analysis, themes, technique, period and related Van Gogh artworks connected from Still Life with Bible.
Still Life with Bible meaning and analysis
Still Life with Bible belongs to the site node Still Life with Bible. That node places the work inside Van Gogh's letters, places and changing painterly abilities rather than isolating it as a single image.
Its strongest period signal is Van Gogh Nuenen Period.
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After his father's death, Van Gogh placed an open Bible and Zola's La Joie de vivre on the same table. The painting does not explain itself, nor should it be made too literal: inherited religious order and the modern novel he chose for himself become two weights, two kinds of reading, two directions of life.