Gaspare Traversi (1722 - 1770)
Gaspare Traversi
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 Italy, including a stay in Parma.
Traversi can be described as a Neapolitan Hogarth, Steen or Longhi, working in a Caravaggist style. Traversi's satirical paintings typically depict animated groups of bourgeois protagonists that seem compressed physically into an indoor pictorial space that can barely contain them. Even his religious canvases have foreshortened crowding. Facial expressions are lively and varied; some of the characters, often children, stare at the viewer. Women are often situated in either a foolish or ironic situation, or engage in a pulchritudinous talent, while men leer or participate with other intentions in mind.
| Date and place of birt: | December 1722, Naples, Italy |
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| Date and place of death: | 1 november 1770, Rome, Italy |
| Nationality: | Italy |
| Period of activity: | XVIII century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Genre painter, Painter, Portraitist |
| Art school / group: | Neapolitan school |
| Genre: | Genre art, Portrait, Religious genre |
| Art style: | Rococo |
