Qualche nota documentaria su Giacomo Recco e la sua famiglia

The author publishes newly-discovered records of the marriage and death of Giacomo Recco and the baptism of Giovanni Battista Recco, thus providing important data for the chronology and relationships of members of the well-known Neapolitan family of still life painters, whose origins – in the absence of documents – have until now been the subject of much scholarly debate. Moreover, the presence of Jusepe de Ribera as godfather at the baptism of Giovanni Battista gives historical credence to the stylistic ties that seem to bind the latter’s earliest compositions to the naturalism of the Spanish painter.