Pantry scene

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The painting shows a pantry with cask, game, meat and pottery. A clean light illuminates the game, meat, salami and on the table, a variety of foods and pottery. A closer look offers a deeper understanding of the typical foods eaten in a wealthy Tuscan household during the first decades of the 17th century.

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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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