Still Life with Birds and Fruit
Still Life with Birds and Fruit, Giovanna Garzoni (Italian, 1600 - 1670) c. 1650
1955.140
Not on display
One of the few women artists to achieve prominence in Italy during the 1600s, Giovanna Garzoni worked in both France and England before spending time at the Medici court in Florence in the late 1640s. She eventually settled in Rome and built her fame on still lifes such as this one, which combines species-specific detail with a curious spatial construction in which the tilted-up ground emphasizes the decorative shapes of the birds and fruit arrayed against it.
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