An Early Still Life by Fede Galizia

Women artists played an important role in the early development of European still-life painting at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Fede Galizia in Italy and Clara Peeters in the Netherlands both had a considerable influence on the development of the genre. The importance of the former, however, has not been sufficiently recognised, and the discovery of a signed and dated still life of 1607 provides the opportunity to reassess the characteristics of her oeuvre.