Still life with vase of flowers, circa 1655-1660
Oil on canvas, 93.4 x 74 cm.
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The canvas depicts a lush vase of daffodils, poppies, carnations, clematis and other flowers, placed on a rough stone shelf. The painting can be attributed, due to its stylistic and compositional characteristics, to the painter of Neapolitan origin Paolo Porpora and can be included in the context of his Roman production of the late fifties of the seventeenth century, when the elements of his early training began to combine happily with the results of new Roman experiences.
Porpora was born in Naples in 1617 and was welcomed as a teenager in the workshop of Giacomo Recco, where he remained for three years starting in 1632 (Prota-Giurleo 1953). Bernardo De Dominici (1742-1745, vol. III, 1745, p. 80) instead recalls his apprenticeship with Aniello Falcone, during which «he also applied himself to painting figures, and battles under the guidance of Falcone, but then seeing that it was difficult, and long, to reach perfection, not driven to it by nature, he applied himself to painting fish, oysters, snails… (See Giamblanco 2015 catalog)
DIMENSIONS H x W x D
Height cm.: 93.4
Width cm.: 74
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