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Baldassarre De Caro (Naples 1689- 1750) was an Italian painter of still lifes mainly of hunted game but also of flowers. The mood of his paintings is often morbid.According to his biographer Bernardo de’ Dominici he was a pupil of Andrea Belvedere where he trained alongside Tommaso Realfonso Gaspare Lopez Gaetano d’Alteriis and Nicola Casissa. There had been an active school of still life painting in Naples starting with Porpora via Ruoppolo to Belvedere.
