Tommaso Realfonso (c. 1677 in

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– after 1743) was an Italian painter of the 18th century, specializing studies of

still-life A still life (: still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which are either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, shells, etc.) or human-made (drinking glasses, books, ...

paintings of flower and fruit pieces. He also painted

vedute A ''veduta'' (; : ''vedute'') is a highly detailed, usually large-scale painting or, more often, print of a cityscape or some other vista. The painters of ''vedute'' are referred to as ''vedutisti''. Origins This genre of landscape originated ...

or landscapes. He was also called ‘’Masillo’’ by his

Andrea Belvedere Abate Andrea Belvedere (born 1646) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period. Life and work It is believed that the painter was born not in 1646, as Bernardo de' Dominici, De Dominici reported, but around 1652, based on the discovery, by Prot ...

, his master, in whose studio he worked till 1694, when Belvedere moved to Spain. A still-life attributed to Realfonso is found in the Museo Correale in

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.''Pittori Napoletani del Settecento, Aggiornamenti ed inediti''
collection of articles by Achille Della Ragione, November 2010, pages 30-36

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* 18th-century Italian painters Italian male painters Italian still life painters Artists from the Kingdom of Naples Italian Baroque painters Painters from Naples 1670s births 18th-century Italian male artists {{Italy-painter-17thC-stub