(active in Tuscany in the second half of the 17th Century)
Mushrooms, plums, peaches, cherries, pears, asparagus, chestnuts and a parrot in a landscape; and Mushrooms, cabbage, chestnuts, apples, a shell, lemons, snails, fishes and a note sheet in a landscape,
the second one monogrammed, lower right: A.M.R.,
oil on canvas, each 120 x 145 cm, framed (2)

Literature:
G. Ciriliio, Angelo Maria Rossi alias “Pittore di Carlo Torre”, in: Parma per l’Arte, Anno IX, Fascicolo 1–2, 2003, pp. 77–79, fig. 1 and 2

Angelo Maria Rossi was active in Lombardy during the second half of the 17th century. He was known as Pseudo Fardella (see L. Salerno, La natura morta italiana, Rome 1984, pp. 280–281) and was initially identified in 1996 as the ”Pittore di Carlo Torre” (see G. Cirillo and G. Godi, Le Nature Morte del Pittore di Carlo Torre, Pseudo Fardella, Parma 1996). This name is based on a dedication that was discovered on one of his paintings. In one painting that was attributed to the “Pittore di Carlo Torre” Giuseppe Cirillo finally found the monogram A.M.R. and identified it as belonging to the painter Angelo Maria Rossi. Between 1665–1701 he executed a series of paintings which are listed in numerous inventories of collections in Milan and Turin.
The aforementioned monogram is also visible in one of the present paintings.