Giovan Battista Ruoppolo (1629–1693) was a

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painter of

still-life A still life (plural: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or man-made (drinking glasses, boo ...

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He was a pupil of

Paolo Porpora Paolo Porpora (1617–1673) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque, who was active mainly in Naples and specialized in floral still lifes. He is documented as a pupil of Giacomo Recco, the father of Giuseppe Recco, and said to have worked u ...

(1617–1673), a contemporary of

Salvatore Rosa Salvator Rosa (1615 –1673) is best known today as an Italian Baroque painter, whose romanticized landscapes and history paintings, often set in dark and untamed nature, exerted considerable influence from the 17th century into the early 19th ...

. Additional Porpora pupils who formed a school of still-life painters in Naples were Giovan Battista,

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 u ...

, and Ruoppolo's brother of Giuseppe Ruoppolo. His pupils included

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and

Aniello Ascione Aniello Ascione (''fl'' 1680 –1708) was an Italian painter of still lifes. He is regarded as an important representative of the Flemish style of Baroque still life painting and a follower of the Flemish painter Abraham Brueghel who worked in Na ...

.B. de’ Dominici, ''Vite de’ Pittori, Scultori ed Architetti Napoletani non mai date alla luce da autore alcuno,dedicate agli eccellentissimi Eletti della fedelissima citta di Napoli''
Napoli 1742-44, I, p. 638 In addition, he influenced

Andrea Belvedere Abate Andrea Belvedere (born 1646) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Life and Work It is believed that the painter was born not in 1646, as De Dominici reported, but around 1652, based on the discovery, by Prota Giurleo, of the ac ...

and

Giacomo Nani Giacomo Nani (1698 in Porto Ercole – 1755 in Naples) was an Italian painter, mainly of still-life paintings and of porcelain. Biography According to De Dominici, he was a pupil of Andrea Belvedere and Gaspare Lopez. In marriage documents fro ...

. The initials of Ruoppolo match those of the younger Recco, suggesting some canvas attributions are likely in error. The dark backgrounds to his still life call to memory

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi (Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi) da Caravaggio, known as simply Caravaggio (, , ; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the final four years of hi ...

's bowl of fruit and flowers. Another contemporary painter, though trained in Rome, of still lifes in Italy was

Giovanna Garzoni Giovanna Garzoni (1600–1670) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. She began her career painting religious, mythological, and allegorical subjects but gained fame for her botanical subjects painted in tempera and watercolour.Jordi Vigu ...

Gallery

Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo - Still-Life with Fruit and Dead Birds in a Landscape - WGA20535.jpg, Fruit and Dead Birds in Landscape Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo - Fruit Still-Life - WGA20532.jpg, Fruit Bunches of Grapes around a Tree Trunk - Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo - Louvre INV 595 ter.jpg, Bunches of Grapes around a Tree Trun Giovanni Battista Ruoppolo - Fruit Still-Life - WGA20531.jpg, Snail, Fruit, Nuts, Grapes, and Pinecones

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