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Flowers and Ducks

1674 · Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence

still-life

Combining flower painting with ancient sculpture - here, a relief showing an amorous couple - was a seventeenth-century subgenre in which Andrea Belvedere excelled. This large work is one of his most famous.

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Flowers and Ducks

About the Artist

Andrea Belvedere

1652 – 1732

Italian painter, also known as Abate Andrea Belvedere. At the start of his career his work was inspired by Paolo Porpora and particularly by the early works of Giuseppe Recco. He excelled in painting still-life paintings of fruit and flowers. He was employed by Charles II of Spain; and in collaboration with Luca Giordano, who painted the figures, he helped to decorate the Escorial.

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