Still life with quinces, pomegranates and grapes
Canvas
65,8x88 inch
In his youth, Bartolomeo Cavarozzi trained in Rome in the studio of Tarquino Ligustri, then in that of Cristofalo Roncalli, known as Pomarancio. He quickly adopted the style of Caravaggio.
After fifteen years spent in the Eternal City, he spread Caravaggism in Spain where he stayed from 1617 to 1619 in the company of the Roman nobleman and painter of still lifes, Giovanni Battista Crescenzi. Alongside altarpieces and figures of saints, Cavarozzi is also the author of several still lifes, the most famous of which was at the Acquavella gallery in New York, then at the Lorenzetti gallery in Bergamo. These works are considered to be among the most important still lifes created in Rome during the second and third decades of the seventeenth century. They incorporate the revolutionary and realistic approach of Caravaggio and very often include bunches of grapes (as in his two paintings kept at the Metropolitan Museum in New York), allusions to wine
and also to an episode from Pliny the Elder's Natural History, in which the Greek painter Zeuxis depicted grapes so convincingly that birds came to peck at them.
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