In the Presence of Things: Four Centuries of European Still-Life Painting

Foreword: Emilio Rui Vilar, President of the Catalogue Gulbenkian Foundation Joao Castel-Branco Pereira, Director of the Calouste Gulbenkian Museum Introduction: In the presence of things. Two centuries of still-life painting - Peter Cherry; "Delicacies that enrapture the eye and the mind": still-life painting in the Netherlands of the seventeenth century - John Loughman; The golden age of still-life painting in Spain and Italy - Peter Cherry; The still life in France: tradition and equivocation - Lesley Stevenson. Catalogue: List of Paintings Nos. 1-71.

The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue explore the abiding themes of still life across the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.