Northern Italian school; second half of the seventeenth century. "Still life with flowers and fruits and Nautilus cup". Oil on canvas.

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  Northern Italian school; second half of the seventeenth century. "Still life with flowers and fruits and Nautilus cup". Oil on canvas. Presents broken frame and jumps in the painting. Size: 34 x 54 cm. Still life composed of flowers and fruits in detail worked, with detail and attention to the qualities, highlighting in this particular case the presence of the Nautilus cup. Despite the profusion of the elements that make up the composition, the still life takes place in an interior, which is intuited due to the furniture that is part of the scene, and that in the last plane in the upper area is a cord that belongs to a curtain that is barely visible in the scene. The elements that make up the still life are placed in the foreground, in a typically classical composition, and at the same time dynamic despite the relatively simple structure of the space. The dynamism is enhanced by the use of bright, metallic colors, such as the orange of the fabric or the upholstery of the fabric on the right side, and the blue of the curtain. Colors that in turn cause a great constársete with the rest of the tonality of the canvas of tenebrist character, something typical of the Italian still life. Highly appreciated within the antiquarian market, as well as among collectors and art historians, the Italian Baroque still life school enjoyed a spectacular development, leaving behind the splendors of the sixteenth century and progressing within a fully Baroque and clearly identifiable style. The Neapolitan school in particular, with the artists Tommaso Realfonso, Nicola Casissa, Gaspare Lopez, Giacomo Nani and Baldassare de Caro, continued the local tradition, specializing in the painting of flowers, fruit, fish and game, thus satisfying the demand of a vast clientele characterized by a new taste typical of the seventeenth century. To these authors must also be added the minor figures, who are slowly emerging from an unjust oblivion, and some artists who worked between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, such as Francesco della Questa, Aniello Ascione, Nicola Malinconico, Gaetano Cusati, Onofrio Loth, Elena and Nicola Maria Recco, Giuseppe Ruoppolo and Andrea Belvedere. These Neapolitan still life painters, who worked during the 17th and early 18th centuries, are called "i generisti", and were important not only within their own environment but also, and especially, in Spain, where the development of the genre was clearly marked by Italian influence. Today this school is considered one of the most outstanding within the Baroque still life. The distinctive sign of Neapolitan Baroque painters was always their strong naturalistic character and their warm chromatism, with a dominance of reddish and earthy tones.
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