Kitchen Still-Life

1620 · Private collection

still-life

Between 1621 and 1625 Jacopo painted still-lifes, of which about ten are known. In all of these works the abundant still-life objects are arranged parallel to the picture plane in clear and lucid compositions. These paintings have always surprised critics because of their divergence from the dominant trends of contemporary Florentine painting.

About the Artist

Jacopo Da Empoli

1551 – 1640

Italian painter and draughtsman, actually Jacopo Chimenti. He lived and worked in Florence all his life, and he followed Santi di Tito in the return to the clarity of the Florentine High Renaissance. He absorbed the ideas of his more innovative contemporaries and became one of the most popular painters of altarpieces for churches in Florence and Tuscany. He was also a distinguished still-life painter and received many commissions from private patrons, among them the Medici. Jacopo da Empoli's painting is distinguished by simple, lucid forms, strong colour and direct and clear interpretation of the subject.

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