Giacomo Legi (1600-1645)

• Was a Baroque painter of Flemish descent.
• Legi was active principally in northern Italy during the first half of the 17th century.
• He was one of the leading painters of still lifes and market and pantry scenes.
• He was born at Liège, in present-day Belgium.
• Legi moved to Genoa to work as an apprentice in the large workshop of Jan Roos, a Flemish painter.
• Giacomo Legi was a master of the still life and of genre paintings.
• Roos and Legi played an important role in the development of the still life in Italy.
• Legi made a career out of the depiction of single fruit, vegetable, game or fish salesmen and women.
• During his stay in Genoa, he collaborated with the local painter Domenico Fiasella.
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