A. Emiliani – Abstract

The author reflects on “an unusual Natura morta di frutta attributed by Federico Zeri to the mastery of Federico Barocci”. As long ago as 1983, the painting was marked out by Federico Zeri as a work to be seen in the context of Italian painting of the second half of the Cinquecento – neither Roman, nor Florentine, but entirely reliant on the enormous value in painting and composition shown by the activity, both in graphics and in colours, of Barocci himself.

The element that seems to the author to be absolutely vitali s the strong, easily distinguishable level of realism in the work, in its stylistic execution.