page_title: Andries Benedetti
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Andries Benedetti / Work
context_page_description: Andries Benedetti was a Flemish still life painter mainly active in Antwerp who is known for his fruit still lifes and pronkstillevens.
context_section_description: Andries Benedetti was a still life specialist who is known for his fruit still lifes and pronkstillevens, the sumptuous still lifes that were popular in Flanders and the Dutch Republic from the 1640s.
  His work was indebted to de Heem's works in the disposition of objects although in Benedetti's work there is a greater profusion of objects.  Benedetti followed the innovations of de Heem, by creating sumptuous compositions, which combine the colourful Flemish palette with the more muted tones popular in Dutch painting.  Beneditti applied the paint less thickly than de Heem.
  Because of the close similarities in their output his paintings have been confused for a long time with those of de Heem.  Only after on several still lifes in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum (Vienna) the anagram " A b fe" was identified was it possible to attribute the works to Benedetti.
  His works influenced the work of the Italian Pier Francesco Cittadini and his presumed brother-in-law Andries de Coninck.
caption: Still life with a vase of roses and tulips, a ham on a pewter plate
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