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Apples in a wicker basket, with a cabbage, parsnip, lettuce and an apple on a stone ledge
Auction: 07/06/2006
Lot: 27
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Giovan Battista Recco AUCTION RECORDS
1630 - 1675. Known for: Painting.
Middione in Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exhibition catalogue edited by N. Spinosa, vol. i, pp. 386 ff., Naples 1984): paintings in which, as in other canvases by Titta Recco with similar themes,... Read full biography
Middione in Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exhibition catalogue edited by N. Spinosa, vol. i, pp. 386 ff., Naples 1984): paintings in which, as in other canvases by Titta Recco with similar themes, there are carved copper pans identical or almost identical, in terms of pictorial representation, to... Read full biography
Middione in Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exhibition catalogue edited by N. Spinosa, vol. i, pp. 386 ff., Naples 1984): paintings in which, as in other canvases by Titta Recco with similar themes, there are carved copper pans identical or almost identical, in terms of pictorial representation, to those painted, after the middle of the century, also by his son Giuseppe, albeit on smaller canvases. However, what distinguishes Giovan Battista from both his brother Giacomo, known above all for his... Read full biography
Middione in Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exhibition catalogue edited by N. Spinosa, vol. i, pp. 386 ff., Naples 1984): paintings in which, as in other canvases by Titta Recco with similar themes, there are carved copper pans identical or almost identical, in terms of pictorial representation, to those painted, after the middle of the century, also by his son Giuseppe, albeit on smaller canvases. However, what distinguishes Giovan Battista from both his brother Giacomo, known above all for his vases with floral compositions, and his son Giuseppe, as well as from other Neapolitan "generists" of the early 17th century, such as Luca Forte or the young Paolo Porpora, is in particular the adherence to the vigorous naturalism of Caravaggio's... Read full biography
Middione in Civiltà del Seicento a Napoli, exhibition catalogue edited by N. Spinosa, vol. i, pp. 386 ff., Naples 1984): paintings in which, as in other canvases by Titta Recco with similar themes, there are carved copper pans identical or almost identical, in terms of pictorial representation, to those painted, after the middle of the century, also by his son Giuseppe, albeit on smaller canvases. However, what distinguishes Giovan Battista from both his brother Giacomo, known above all for his vases with floral compositions, and his son Giuseppe, as well as from other Neapolitan "generists" of the early 17th century, such as Luca Forte or the young Paolo Porpora, is in particular the adherence to the vigorous naturalism of Caravaggio's matrix imported to Naples from Rome, where he was trained at a very young age after leaving Valencia, by Jusepe de R... Read full biography
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Giovan Battista Recco 
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeSardines suspended from twine and onions on a stone ledge
Giovan Battista Recco Auction: 12/08/2006Lot: 253Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeA ligated lamb besides a basket of eggs, an Allegory of Easter
Giovan Battista Recco Auction: 04/30/2019Lot: 361Subscribe or get free alerts
Art images copyright© of artist or assigneeShellfish in a basket, a lobster in a bowl and shells, a crayfish and a crab on a stone ledge
Giovan Battista Recco Auction: 10/17/2006Lot: 39Subscribe or get free alerts
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