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Still life with vase of flowers, fruits and architectural ruins

c. 1675/1700

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NORTHERN ARTIST ACTIVE IN ROME IN THE LAST QUARTER OF THE XVII CENTURY Still life with vase of flowers, fruits and architectural ruins The painting is part of a pair: the twin can also be seen in the gallery, but they can be purchased individually. Oil on canvas 120 x 150 cm (145 x 177 including frame) The two large canvases presented here, depicting Still Life with Flowers, Fruits, Storied Vases, a Parrot and a Monkey and Still Life with Vase of Flowers, Fruits and Architectural Ruins, are typical examples of the great Baroque decoration that saw its heyday in Rome in the second half of the 17th century. Magnificent Baroque splendor took its most striking forms in the great aristocratic palaces of the Colonna, Chigi, Borghese, Rospigliosi, and Pallavicini families, where the greatest exponents of figure, landscape, and genre painting active in Rome at that time worked. This taste also gradually took hold among the minor patricians and the upper middle class of bankers and professionals, who made use of lesser-known artists from the workshops that were flourishing in the city. As for still life depictions, the top representatives were initially specialists: Mario Nuzzi and Giovanni Stanchi for flowers, Michelangelo del Campidoglio for fruits, and Francesco Noletti for elegant compositions with carpets. In the second half of the century artists moved in the direction of greater versatility, so that, for example, a painter of Apulian origin such as Carlo Manieri indifferently painted all three of the above subjects, often mixing them within the same compositions. A fundamental contribution to the development of so-called Roman genre painting was that made by the large cadre of foreign artists active in the city: they included Flemish, Dutch, and German artists, united in guilds called Bent. Flourishing was also the colony of the French, but these were painters of higher artistic lineage, figure specialists devoted to historical, mythological and religious scenes, sent to Italy under the protection of Louis XIV, who could count on attending the prestigious French Academy, founded in 1666 at the instigation of Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The two large canvases presented here are works by a Nordic painter fascinated by Roman culture, so clearly evident in the perspective fugue display of two historiated vases in the painting with monkey and parrot, designed to be placed on the left, and two plinths in the other, designed to be the right-hand element of the pair. The term Nordic is meant to refer generically to an artist of Flemish culture who may, however, have derived his origins in Germany as well, as shown by the formidable Roman examples of Christian Berentz and Franz Werner von Tamm. However, the mixture of fruits, flowers, small animals such as monkeys and parrots, historiated vases, and relics of classicism offered outdoors with narrow landscape openings makes one think more of a painter who was familiar with the works of the Antwerp-born David de Coninck, who stayed in Rome from 1672 to 1694. This time frame is certainly the most credited for dating the two large still lifes presented here as well.
  • Creation Year:
    c. 1675/1700
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 57.09 in (145 cm)Width: 69.69 in (177 cm)Depth: 3.15 in (8 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Como, IT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU2536212614532

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