Il Maltese – Inner Surfaces

Texture, Colour and Light: Francesco Noletti (c. 1611–1654)

Francesco Noletti, Still Life with Armour, c. 1650, oil on canvas, 76 × 108 cm, Museo Correr, Venice, inv. Cl. I no. 1049. Image: Didier Descouens, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Painted Carpet In 1662, the Flemish writer Cornelis de Bie related a story about a pope visiting the house of Francesco Noletti, theContinue reading “Texture, Colour and Light: Francesco Noletti (c. 1611–1654)”

Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life

Meiffren Conte and the splendour of still life Meiffren Conte, also found as Comte, Le Conte or Lecointe, was born in Marseille around 1630 and died there in 1705. He belongs to a later seventeenth-century world in which still life was no longer confined to modest arrangements of fruit, flowers or household objects. In hisContinue reading “Meiffren Conte (c. 1630–1705) and the splendour of still life”