Gian Domenico Valentino, in Roman painter, lived mainly in Romagna between Imola and Ravenna painted and made attractive interior of crowded kitchen from compositions with copper utensils, stills, pottery , glass, vegetables, poultry and beef quarters and often inhabited by crafty cats. We need to Bocchi the final arrangement of his art in fundamental text also useful to compare these two paintings (G. Bocchi, U.Bocchi, 'Giovanni Domenico Valentini', in the 'painters of still life in Rome, Italian artists 1630- 1750 ', Viadana 2005). In the works Valentino are obvious influences of northern European painting, Flemish and Dutch, hence the taste of the spectacular kitchens, spices and laboratories of alchemists in all all seem to...