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Ruoppolo, Giovanni Battista
(b Naples, 1629; d Naples, 1693). Italian painter. His father, Francesco Ruoppolo, was a maiolica-worker, as was also his father-in-law, Bernardo Congiusto, and his brother Carlo Ruoppolo was a painter of pictures and maiolica. Ruoppolo was an important figure in Neapolitan still-life painting in the second half of the 17th century, with numerous followers, and his pictures were collected by the aristocracy and wealthy merchant classes. In the past, confusion has arisen between Ruoppolo’s work and that attributed to the older artist Giovan Battista Recco, because of their identical initials GBR.
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