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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Giuseppe Recco came from a Neapolitan dynasty of artists, and was one of the most celebrated still-life painters of early seventeenth-century Italy. This canvas shows several types of fish and shellfish (including sea-bass, plaice, red snapper, crayfish and a crab) arranged on a table and on top of an upturned glazed earthenware bowl. Following the Caravaggesque tradition, the artist has chosen a dark background and a strong, directed light. Special attention has been paid to the texture of the still-wet scales on the taut, fresh fish; this is rendered in glistening, bold impasto highlights of almost pure lead white. | Subjects: | still life (fish); animal (fish mollusc) sea urchin crab crayfish | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Recco, Giuseppe (Italian painter, 1634-1695) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8539... | Go to resource |
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