We look at hundreds of Dutch still lifes (fish, bottle, lemon) as a Protestant declaration. “Here is my world, these are my family values, I don’t need too much, I won’t refuse a modest income.” And this declaration indeed occurs. But neither Willem Claesz Heda nor Abraham van Beijeren thought of anything declarative, they simply drew a fish and a bottle.

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