Still Life of Flowers and Vegetables 1650s
Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo (1629–1693)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
(b Naples, 1629; d Naples, 1693). Neapolitan still-life painter. He specialized in pictures of flowers and food (especially fruit and seafood), depicted in an exuberant and succulent style. With Recco he was the finest Italian still-life painter of his period. His nephew Giuseppe Ruoppolo (d1710) painted in his style but was much less accomplished.
Text source: The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists (Oxford University Press)
