PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo The Butcher's Shop a Painting ID:: 8457 new1/PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo1.jpg
The Butcher's Shop a 1580s
Oil on canvas, 112 x 152 cm
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica, Rome
PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria f Painting ID:: 8459 new1/PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo3.jpg
Holy Family with the Infant St John the Baptist and St Catherine of Alexandria f Oil on canvas, 111,5 x 92 cm
Christian Museum, Esztergom
PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo Portrait of a Gentleman with Two Dogs Painting ID:: 29884 new3/PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo-496545.jpg
Portrait of a Gentleman with Two Dogs mk67
Oil on canvas
40 9/16x33 1/16in
Pitti,Palatine Gallery
PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo The Geflugelbandlerinnen Painting ID:: 45530 new17/PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo-323745.jpg
The Geflugelbandlerinnen mk186
around 1577 Florence, Fondazione Roberto Longhi
PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo Basket of Flowers Painting ID:: 62321 new21/PASSEROTTI, Bartolomeo-878892.jpg
Basket of Flowers 54 x 83 cm Museo del Prado, Madrid This painting of a basket of flowers and its pair (Madrid, Museo del Prado) follow closely a type of flower piece made popular by Juan de Arellano in which the flowers occupy an open weave wicker basket placed on a rough stone ledge. Such images of flowers casually arranged and filling an open weave basket differ from the formal presentations of bouquets in vases and were perhaps intended to be seen as recently-gathered fresh flowers on short stems. Although the paintings have been considered early works by P?rez for reasons of their closeness to the typology of Arellano s works, they show that the painter was evidently in full possession of the technical resources that distinguish his mature style. In the 17th century, flower paintings commonly made up the decoration of chapels and monastic institutions. While it does not appear that symbolism played a significant role in Spanish flower paintings, viewers of a more sombre cast of mind could have read a Vanitas message in such pictures, in which the brief life of the flowers was a metaphor for human existence