Scuola lombarda (XVII) (cerchia di Margherita Caffi) - Vaso di fiori

Lombard school of the 17th century, circle of Margherita Caffi
Flowerpot
Oil on canvas, 80 x 54 cm
With frame, 94 x 68 cm
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The oil on canvas in question, depicting a vase with grotesques from which a rich floral bouquet emerges, can be referred to the Lombard school of the seventeenth century due to its stylistic and chromatic features.
The still life was originally born as a naturalistic detail with various symbolic values, often inserted in the back of some portraits or as a secondary detail in sacred scenes, only later acquiring its autonomy. Italy, and specifically Lombardy, was among the most important production centers that developed between the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th century.
The work can be attributed to the hand of a Lombard artist who had the opportunity to see the studied compositions of artists such as Giuseppe Volò known as Vicenzino (Milan, 1662 - documented until 1700) , a Lombard painter who, following the example of Nuzzi, Mantovano and Flemish culture popularized by Abraham Brueghel. Belonging to the so-called Vicenzini family was Margherita Caffi, daughter of the painter of French origin Vincenzo Volò from whom the aforementioned nickname probably derives. Born in Cremona in 1647, Margherita Caffi is best known for her fruit and flower compositions. She was admitted to the Accademia di San Luca in Milan, together with her sister and an unidentified Lucrezia Ferraria, starting from 2 February 1697, according to a document found in the 2000s by Alberto Cottino. Among his clients are the archdukes of Tyrol (many of his paintings are still in Austria today) , the kings of Spain and the grand dukes of Tuscany; in particular his art was much appreciated by Vittoria Della Rovere. The last years of his existence were spent in Milan, where he created a thriving local school of still life painters. Certainly inspired by similar Nordic paintings, Caffi shows, in the extreme freedom of the pictorial drafting, of the free and lively brushwork, influences on the Venetian painting of Elisabetta Marchioni and on the still lifes of the so-called Pseudo Guardi. In works such as Vase of Flowers from the Private Collection, stylistic features very similar to those present in the canvas in question can be found: the decorated vase and the flowers themselves, which develop from above, descending downwards and opening on the sides.
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