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“ Still Life with Mice (detail) 1619Lodewik Susi Flemish, active 1616–1620oil on panelPlace made: Flanders (Belgium) The artist has arrayed fruit, sugared almonds, and gingersticks with a decorated knife and polished pewter plate. This exacting depiction of sumptuous objects in a carefully ordered arrangement presents a synthesis of keen Netherlandish observation and Italian compositional finesse. The only certain work by Lodewik Susi’s hand, this picture was created in Italy in 1619, which explains why he signed it Susio, an Italianized version of his name. While early seventeenth-century artists from northern Europe favored high-viewpoint still lifes that read like a frieze of discrete objects, contemporary Italian artists focused more on the relationships between the objects themselves. The picture may refer to the vanity of the physical world since the ripened apple shows signs of decay and mice sometimes symbolize death or sin.”

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Still Life with Mice (detail)

1619
Lodewik Susi 
Flemish, active 1616–1620
oil on panel
Place made: Flanders (Belgium)

The artist has arrayed fruit, sugared almonds, and gingersticks with a decorated knife and polished pewter plate. This exacting depiction of sumptuous objects in a carefully ordered arrangement presents a synthesis of keen Netherlandish observation and Italian compositional finesse. The only certain work by Lodewik Susi’s hand, this picture was created in Italy in 1619, which explains why he signed it Susio, an Italianized version of his name. While early seventeenth-century artists from northern Europe favored high-viewpoint still lifes that read like a frieze of discrete objects, contemporary Italian artists focused more on the relationships between the objects themselves. The picture may refer to the vanity of the physical world since the ripened apple shows signs of decay and mice sometimes symbolize death or sin.”

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