Everyday Poetry: Spanish Still Life Painting of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries is devoted to the emergence and development of the bodegón in Spain from the early seventeenth century to the Enlightenment. Bringing together approximately thirty works by artists including Juan van der Hamen, Juan de Zurbarán, Tomás Hiepes, Josefa de Óbidos, Pedro de Camprobín and Luis Meléndez, the exhibition traces the evolution of Spanish still life from its early austere formulations to the more elaborate and decorative compositions of the later period. Far from a minor genre, the bodegón occupied a central position in Spanish painting, offering artists a rigorous framework in which to explore naturalism and pictorial order.