Gaspare Traversi
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Gaspare Traversi was an Italian Rococo painter best known for his genre works. Active mostly in his native city of Naples, he also painted throughout the Italian peninsula, including a stay in Parma.
Gasparo Traversi, Self-portrait, c. 1750, Seattle Art Museum
Absalom murders Amnon, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Rome
The Drawing Lesson, c. 1755, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
The Seduction
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.
Gaspare Traversi
…works suggest that Traversi was interested in the art of Marco Benefial, while their chiaroscuro and naturalism recalls the style of the Venetian Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, some of whose drawings and paintings he may have known. In this mature period, from c. 1752 into the 1760s, Traversi was producing genre paintings…
Self portrait (1730s),Charcoal heightened with White on green-grey paper. In the collection of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
The Assumption of Mary (1735), oil on canvas. In the collection of the Louvre
The Soothsayer, Accademia, Venice
Idyll at Coast (1739-1740)