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michelangelo Pace di campidoglio, Still Life of Fruit Basket and Monkey. formerly Venice, collezione Vittorio cini abraham Brueghel (?), Vase of Flowers with Plums and Peaches. formerly Venice, collezione Vittorio cini Giovanni Paolo castelli called Spadino, Still Life of Fruit and Rabbits. formerly Venice, collezione Vittorio cini another two paintings in the group – Still Life of Fig Bowl and Still Life of Apples, Grapes and Peaches – are indicated in the handwritten inventory of the Vittorio cini collection (with the numbers 5442 and 5443) as being by Ruoppolo. They can be more accurately assigned to the circle of michelangelo cerquozzi (Rome 1602-1660). incidentally, in the group handed down to the heirs there were other still life paintings by Roman artists, such as michelangelo Pace di campidoglio (Rome 1610?-1670?), attributed with the Still Life of Fruit Basket and Monkey, or the anonymous Roman genre painter with a cerquozzi background, active from the mid-17th century. a corpus for this artist’s works has been constructed thanks to the unusual shape of the broad wicker basket full of fruit, which is identical to the basket in the cini Still Life of Fruit Basket. in the cini collection there are also three paintings that can be associated with the work of the antwerp artist abraham Brueghel (antwerp 1631-naples 1697). He was one of the most important Baroque-age still life painters active in Rome – where he skilfully combined his flemish training with the post-caravaggio culture of cerquozzi and Pace – and in naples, where he probably settled in 1676 and where his sumptuous inventions catered for the taste of his neapolitan patrons. His works thus dialogued closely with the paintings of Paolo Porpora, the Recco and the Ruoppolo. The three paintings in question are a Vase of Flowers with Plums and Peaches, attributable to his Roman period, and a matching pair of two horizontal compositions with fruit and flowers. Lastly, i would also mention a pair of 18th-century paintings, a Still Life of Fruit and Parrot and a Still Life of Fruit and Rabbits, documented in the photographic archive as being by Baldassarre de caro (? 1689-naples 1750), but actually more similar in style and composition to the work of Giovanni Paolo castelli called lo Spadino (Rome 1659c.1730) on the grounds of the dissolved impasto, the settings in evanescent gardens only just hinted at by vegetable patterns and the presence of pets; these elements are derived from the compositions of the more skilful German still life artist franz Werner Tamm called Daprait (Hamburg 1658-Vienna 1724). The group of still life paintings that came from the Vittorio cini collection were further complemented by two works that the foundation acquired directly from acerbi in 1954 as being by the neapolitan school: a Still Life of Bunches of Grapes in a Wicker Basket and Birds and a Still Life of Bunches of Grapes in a Vat, Mushrooms and Parakeets. Both these works can be ascribed to the circle of the modena painter francesco malagoli, active in the 18th-century and mentioned in the sources as particularly skilful at simulating grapes “so true as to deceive anyone” (marcello Oretti, Cronica o sia Diario Pittorico, Bologna, Biblioteca comunale, mS B 106). malagoli’s authorship shows through in some morellilike details, such as the leaves on the vine branches riddled with holes in the foreground, sketched in the shade. They are found both in the paintings being examined here and in another work in the Vittorio cini collection, which did not come into the foundation collections, but is a certain autograph work and perfectly echoes the other two paintings 20 collections
francesco malagoli, Still Life of Bunches of Grapes. formerly Venice, collezione Vittorio cini francesco malagoli, Still Life of Bunches of Grapes in a Wicker Basket and Birds. Venice, fondazione <strong>Giorgio</strong> cini still lifes now in the Bologna city art collections (D. Biagi maino in La natura morta in Italia, edited by f. Porzio, i, milan 1989, pp. 434-435). another pair of paintings similar to the cini pair on the grounds of their subject and composition – also ascribed to the circle of malagoli, who was active in modena, Bologna and mantua – is held by the heirs of the ferrara collector antonio Santini (1824-1898; L. Scardino, La collezione d’arte di Antonio Santini (ferrara 1824-1898), ferrara 2004, p. 222). 21 Alessandro Martoni francesco malagoli, Still Life of Bunches of Grapes in a Vat, Mushrooms and Parakeets. Venice, fondazione <strong>Giorgio</strong> cini
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