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MARIO NUZZI detto MARIO DEI FIORI

(Rome, 1603 - 1673) Vase of flowers Oil on canvas, 81.3X57.2 cm Provenance: New York, Sotheby's, May 23, 2001, lot 76 (as Mario Nuzzi) Italy, private collection The painting is an important example of the production of Mario Nuzzi known as Mario dei Fiori and its execution can be placed around 1650. The painter's corpus has been reconstructed from the signed or documented works housed in the Escorial Monastery, Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia (commissioned by Cardinal Flavio Chigi in 1659) and in Palazzo Colonna in Rome, where in collaboration with Carlo Maratti he produced extraordinary painted mirrors (see L. Laureati, in La natura morta in Italia, edited by Francesco Porzio and Federico Zeri, Milan 1989, I, pp. 759-767). To these was added the series of flower vases already in the Mansi collection in Lucca (see G. and U. Bocchi, Mario Nuzzi detto Mario dei Fiori Pittori di natura morta a Roma, in Pittori di natura morta a Roma. Italian Artists 1630 ; 1750, Viadana 2005, pp. 67-142). Returning to the author's biography, Lyon Pascoli recounts his early youthful trials that occurred with his floriculturist father (see L. Pascoli, Le vite de' pittori scultori et architetti moderni, II, Rome 1736, pp. 57-74), and then passed, according to Baglione, into the workshop of Salini with whom he precociously became a collaborator, inheriting his clientele upon his death in 1625 (G. Baglione, Le vite de' pittori, scultori et architetti, Rome 1642, p. 188). This apprenticeship allowed the young man to come into contact with scholars, academics, botanists and still-life artists from the Barberini area, such as Cassiano del Pozzo, Jacopo Ligozzi, Anna Maria Vaiana, and Daniel Seghers (see M. Epifani and F. Solinas in Flora Romana. Flowers and Culture in the Art of Mario de' Fiori, exhibition catalog edited by F. Solinas, Rome 2010, pp. 182-188, p. 34). Such frequentations and talent enabled the painter to become one of the most successful florists of the 17th century, and in 1650 he is recorded in documents as: 'Marius, pictor romanus, vulgo Mario de' fiori' (cf. Y. Primarosa, Flora Romana 2010, p. 58 op. cit.).

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Estimate 4 000 - 7 000 EUR
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