All Mario Dei Fiori's oil paintings
ID Image  Oil Pantings, Sorted from A to Z     Other Information
28882 Self-Portrait with a Servant and Flowers Self-Portrait with a Servant and Flowers mk64 Oil on canvas 53 9/16x85 1/16in Uffizi,
28819 Theee Caper Flower,a Carnation,a Bindweed,and a Tulip Theee Caper Flower,a Carnation,a Bindweed,and a Tulip mk64 Oil on canvas 16 1/8x13in Pitti,Poggio Imperiale Depository
Mario Dei Fiori
Italian painter , Penna Fermana 1603- Rome 1673 Italian painter. He was the first and most famous Roman painter to specialize in flower-pieces and one of only four still-life artists included by Leone Pascoli in his collection of artists' biographies. The early sources and old inventories attribute many flower paintings in distinguished Roman collections to the Caravaggesque painter Tommaso Salini, and since the 18th century Mario's name has been linked with his, and it has been assumed that he trained with Salini. This apprenticeship is difficult to document, yet a comparison of Mario's pictures with inventory descriptions of works by Salini confirms that Mario was influenced by his art. To the minute observation of various kinds of flowers, Mario added a refined sense of design and an interest in effects of light, still linked to Caravaggio in the use of a dark background. . Related Artists to : | Johann Evangelist | Jan van Beers | Francis Hopkinson Smith | Franz Ludwig Catel | Miel, Jan |