A still life is a work of art whose subject matter is inanimate, typically artfully-arranged everyday objects like food, flowers, books, jewlery, plants and even dead animals. Still life art dates as far back as the Middle Ages and the Greco-Roman era. However, the most famous still life paintings emerged in Western painting during the late 16th century. The genre peaked with Netherlandish painting during the 16th and 17th centuries. In…