PAIR OF STILL LIFE PAINTINGS GASPARE LOPEZ

Description

Gasparo Lopez

(c. 1677–1732) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period.
He was born at Naples and was an excellent painter of flowers, and therefore called Gasparo dei Fiori. He studied under Jean Baptiste Du Buisson, Andrea Belvedere, and worked at Rome, Venice, and Dresden. He settled subsequently at Florence, where he became court painter to the grand-duke. Lopez was murdered there.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves (ed.). Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. p. 75.

From: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gasparo Lopez (c. 1677–1732) è stato un pittore italiano del periodo barocco .

Era nato a Napoli ed era un eccellente pittore di fiori, e per questo chiamato Gasparo dei Fiori . Ha studiato con Jean Baptiste Du Buisson, Andrea Belvedere e ha lavorato a Roma , Venezia e Dresda. Successivamente si stabilì a Firenze , dove divenne pittore di corte del granduca. Lopez è stato assassinato lì.