Agostino Verrocchi (1586-1659) was an Italian painter, mainly depicting still-life subjects during the Baroque period. He was active from 1619 to 1636 and mainly in

Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus ( legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...

. Verrocchi, alongside other Roman artists like Tomasso Salini, is known for pioneering a new type of still life which placed objects on different levels, to create depth and complexity. He has been featured in two exhibitions. The first was titled ''La Natura morta al tempo di Caravaggio, Roma'' at the

Musei Capitolini The Capitoline Museums ( Italian: ''Musei Capitolini'') are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill in Rome, Italy. The historic seats of the museums are Palazzo dei Conservatori and Pal ...

during December 1995 to April 1996. The second, ''L'incantesimo dei sensi'' was at the Museo Accorsi - Ometto of Turin in 2005, where he was displayed alongside relative contemporaries such as Maestro Acquavella,

Pietro Paolo Bonzi Pietro Paolo Bonzi (c. 1576–1636), also known as ''il Gobbo dei Carracci'' (hunchback of the Carracci) or ''il Gobbo dei Frutti'' (of fruits), was an Italian painter, best known for his landscapes and still-lifes. A cartoon of the painter s ...

Fede Galizia Fede Galizia, better known as Galizia, ( 1578 – 1630) was an Italian Renaissance painter of still-lifes, portraits, and religious pictures. She is especially noted as a painter of still-lifes of fruit, a genre in which she was one of the earlie ...

Panfilo Nuvolone Panfilo Nuvolone (1581–1651) was an Italian painter of the Mannerist period, who painted both religious and still life topics, active in Cremona and Mantua. Born to a Mantuan gentleman, he was the father of a family of Cremonese painters. In ...

Giuseppe Recco __NOTOC__ Giuseppe Recco (1634 – 29 May 1695) was an Italian painter in the Baroque style. He specialized in a variety of still lifes. Career Born in Naples, he likely apprenticed with his family, including his father Giacomo Recco and un ...

, and Giambattista Ruoppolo.Mostre, Torino: una collezione di nature morte del Seicento
at the Museo Accorsi, 15.11.2005.

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1586 births 1659 deaths Painters from Rome 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Italian still life painters {{Italy-painter-16thC-stub