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Description: | Grapes and peaches are piled on a fragment of a carved lintel, with shells in the foreground. The mountainous landscape at dusk and the ruins are characteristic features of Roman still-life paintings. This picture was previously attributed to Francesco Fieravino, called Il Maltese, but it is likely to be the work of a Neapolitan painter. The complexity of the composition and the variety of objects recall the type of still life painted by the Neapolitan Paolo Porpora, who moved to Rome in about 1654. Porpora specialised in sottoboschi (forest floor) still-life compositions with insects and shells minutely described. | Subjects: | still life (fruit shells); landscape | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Porpora, Paolo (Italian painter, born 1617, died 1670-1680) Æ Attributed to school of Attributed to Italian (Neapolitan) School Previously attributed to Fieravino, Francesco (Italian painter, active ca. 1610-1660) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8970... | Go to resource |
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