Still-Life with Fruit and Flowers

Giuseppe Recco came from a family of painters that specialised in still-lifes. He started painting in the tradition of his father Giacomo and his uncle Giovanni Battista who still cultivated the close-up assemblages of objects, presented on a table. Giuseppe developed his bravura style in still-lifes of fish, later he turned increasingly to the decorative Baroque flower piece.

This monumental still-life, placed in a landscape with rich vegetation, is a late work of the artist.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 7 minutes): Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, ballet suite, op. 71, Waltz of the Flowers