The subject of the still life with carpet has considerable diffusion in Northern Italy, from the middle of the 17th century, after being launched in Flanders at the beginning of the century.
The work Still life with carpet, by the Piacenza painter Antonio Gianlisi, takes up many stylistic features of the Flemish subject, which can be found in the fabrics, the production of which is typical of Flanders, but also in the fruits, symbols of the great maritime power of the Company of the Indies. At the same time, this painting recalls the still lifes of the Bergamo painter Evaristo Baschenis, in the way in which the pictorial composition of the objects inserted in scenes consisting of damask curtains and richly decorated carpets is laid out.

Gianlisi draws inspiration from these teachings for a personal reinterpretation and re-elaboration of the subject, using a palette of brighter colors, in which the details take on greater importance than the overall vision.
Another peculiarity of the artist is to make the drapery of the fabrics soft, very often decorated with gold and the workmanship of the fringes, rendered according to the smallest details, as in the contemporary Flemish still lifes.

Location: room n. 2