Floral Still Life From The Lombard School Of The 17th Century

Lombard school, 17th century
Still life with vase of flowers on a damask carpet
Oil on canvas, 65 x 82 cm
Frame : 85 x 99

Refined Lombard still life from the 17th century, depicting a vase full of colorful flowers resting on a precious damask carpet, with a dark red drapery in the background that gives scenic depth to the composition. The dense and luminous pictorial layering bears witness to the Lombard figurative culture of the 17th century, in which one can perceive the influence of Flemish painters active in Italy, such as Jan Brueghel the Elder and his followers, as well as of native artists such as Panfilo Nuvolone and the subsequent masters who brought still life to levels of excellence. This type of composition belongs precisely to that Lombard current that, during the 17th century, assimilated the naturalistic lesson of Caravaggio, integrating it with love for details, soft light and formal elegance. The result is a painting with a strong decorative charge, but also of great symbolic intensity, in line with the Baroque thought on the ephemeral and the triumph of nature.
The bouquet, rich and articulated, includes identifiable floral varieties such as: striped tulips, typical of the botanical collections of the time, symbols of vanity and ephemeral beauty; carnations and roses, metaphors of love and transience; chrysanthemums and peonies, rendered with extraordinary material attention, which evoke abundance and renewal.
Of particular importance is the representation of the oriental carpet, a recurring element in Northern Italian still lifes, used not only as a decorative support but also to emphasize the collector's taste and the prestige of the environment in which these works were intended: often aristocratic homes or private picture galleries of the merchant class.

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