A Milanese painter who worked in the second half of the 17th century and specialised in flower still lifes. We know many of his signed works, among them two monumental paintings in the Dubini collection in Milan, which were shown at the exhibition of Italian still lifes La natura morta italiana in Naples in 1964. No details of the painter’s life are known. It would appear that he and Margherita Caffi were pupils of the mysterious Vincenzo Volo, a still-life painter whose works we do not know. Because Margherita Caffi signed “Vicenzina”, Vicenzino might have been a relative of hers, or both of them might have taken their names from their teacher, so that Vicenzino might only be a pseudonym.
Vicenzino’s style is Lombard, but it is enriched with Flemish features in the spirit of Abraham Brueghel and the Italian painter Mario de’ Fiori (Mario Nuzzi). It is known that Vicenzino had a daughter called Domenica who also painted flower still lifes, and a number of pupils who popularised his style.
Lit.: Luigi Salerno, Nuovi studi su la natura morta italiana, Roma 1989; La natura morta in Italia, Editor Federico Zeri, Vol. I-II, Milano 1989 (Text: Alessandro Morandotti); Settecento Lombardo, Palazzo Reale & Museo della Fabbrica del Duomo, Milano 1991, pp. 239-240 (biogr. Anna Maria Bianchi) [ex. cat.].