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Still Life with Grapes and other Fruit
Still Life with Grapes and other Fruit
Artist : Luca Forte

Date : approx. between 1630 and 1639

Material : Oil painting on brass
J. Paul Getty Museum
European Paintings 1600-1800
South Pavilion - First Floor - Section S203
Item 4 on 14
European Painting
Painting (Still Life)

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Italy



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Forte was a founder of the distinguished school of still life painting in Naples. This composition sets the bounties of autumn against an open landscape and sky. Forte enlivened the composition by manipulating the effects of natural life. Warm sunlight halos the apples while dappled highlights capture the difference between the translucency of grapes and the clarity of water drops. Forte painted this work on cooper to give the surface a polished smoothness similar to fine enamel.
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"Still life" is a work of art depicting inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (flowers, game, sea shells and the like) or man-made (drinking glasses, foodstuffs, pipes, books and so on).

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Still Life with Grapes and other Fruit
Luca Forte