Antonio de Bellis - Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto

Antonio de Bellis (c. 1616 – c. 1656) was an Italian painter from

Naples Naples ( ; ; ) is the Regions of Italy, regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its Metropolitan City of N ...

, active in the

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period. Along with

Jusepe de Ribera Jusepe de Ribera (; baptised 17 February 1591 – 3 November 1652) was a Spanish painter and Printmaking, printmaker. Ribera, Francisco de Zurbarán, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, and the singular Diego Velázquez, are regarded as the major artist ...

, Bernardo Cavallino and Massimo Stanzioni he was one of the major artists working in Naples in the first half of the seventeenth century, under the influence of the painter

Caravaggio Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (also Michele Angelo Merigi or Amerighi da Caravaggio; 29 September 1571 – 18 July 1610), known mononymously as Caravaggio, was an Italian painter active in Rome for most of his artistic life. During the fina ...

Life and work

He worked on the paintings on the Life of St. Charles in the church of San Carlo alle Mortelle in Naples. Other autograph works are the ''Scene of a sacrifice'' in the

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, ''Finding of Moses'' in the

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and '' The Liberation of St. Peter'' in the

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. There are two works known that are signed with the artist's monogram ''ADB'', one in a private collection and the other is ''Rest on the Flight into Egypt'' at Whitfield Fine Art, London.

References

* * * 1610s births 17th-century Neapolitan people 17th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian Baroque painters Painters from Naples 1650s deaths {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub