Luca Forte, Still life of pears, apples and grapes

Oil on canvas
cm. 50,5x63. Antique frame
This intense composition of fruit, almost mysterious in its essentiality, takes us to the Neapolitan scene at the time of the first affirmation of still life and particularly to the early activity of Luca Forte, a key figure in this conjuncture of seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting. The humble and collected atmosphere, with still vivid echoes of Caravaggio's naturalism and the refined luministic effects that result, liken this still life to the one with Peaches, Grapes and Jasmine from the Molinari Pradelli Collection in Marano di Castenaso.

This intense composition of fruit, almost mysterious in its essentiality, takes us to the Neapolitan scene at the time of the first affirmation of still life and particularly to the early activity of Luca Forte, a key figure in this conjuncture of seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting. The humble and collected atmosphere, with still vivid echoes of Caravaggio's naturalism and the refined luministic effects that result, liken this still life to the one with Peaches, Grapes and Jasmine from the Molinari Pradelli Collection in Marano di Castenaso.