….in the 1618 painting of “Two Citrons” by Filippo di Liagno (called Filippo Napoletano), a lemon is more than either just a lemon or just a painting.
That is typical of most of the 43 works you can see in “Natura Morta: Still-Life Painting and the Medici Collections,” a new show of 17th and 18th century works that goes on exhibit Saturday at the University of Wisconsin’s Chazen Museum of Art.
Professor Gail Geiger, who teaches Italian Renaissance art at the UW and specializes in patronage, knows how to decode these paintings and other works of art.