Painting Detail
Still Life with GrapesArtist: Pace Michele
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 98x134 cm
Date: 1650s-1660s
Genre: Fruits, Still Life
Source: Collection of Sir Robert Walpole, Houghton Hall, 1779
Pace del Campidoglio was born in Rome in 1610. He was a scholar of Fioravanti, and was called 'Di Campidoglio' from an office he held in the Campidoglio, or Capitol, at Rome. There was a fine picture by him in the collection of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough at Blenheim, and many others are to be found in England. He died in 1670.