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 vigoro...