Still Life with Flowers, Fruits and Animals
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Oil painting on canvas. Neapolitan school of the seventeenth-eighteenth century. The large composition is rich in different elements: in the upper half a bowl full of flowers (roses, dahlias, wildflowers) in shades of red, pink, white dominates chromatically; at the top, on the left of the vase, an owl is perched, while at the top right a dog emerges; in the background a glass and a bottle are placed on a stone block, which stand out for the reflections of the light on the glass surface. The lower half of the scene is instead occupied by a composition of numerous fruits: grapes, melons, pears, plums, dates, accompanied by a plate of black olives on the left and another with p