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Gasparo Lopez

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Allegory of the Arts and Sciences (with a Cherub with a blowpipe and bubble)by Gasparo Lopez

Gasparo Lopez(c. 1677–1732) was an Italian painter of theBaroqueperiod.

He was born atNaplesand was an excellent painter of flowers, and therefore calledGasparo dei Fiori.He studied under Jean Baptiste Du Buisson,Andrea Belvedere,and worked atRome,Venice,and Dresden. He settled subsequently atFlorence,where he becamecourt painterto the grand-duke. Lopez was murdered there.

References[edit]

  • Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong; Robert Edmund Graves (eds.).Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical.Vol. II L-Z. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 75.