Fishmongers by Vincenzo Campi Painting Jigsaw Puzzle

This jigsaw puzzle features a painting by 16th century Italian painter, Vincenzo Campi, called Fishmongers (c. 1580). This painting belongs to the series of four genre paintings formerly located in the guest quarters of the Hieronymite monastery of San Sigismondo in Cremona. The four canvases now in the Brera - the others are the Fruit Seller, the Kitchen, and the Chicken Vendors - are similar in content and have been variously interpreted as traditional allegories of the four elements or references to the seasons of the year. He painted a series of paintings depicting food, butchers, fish vendors and poultry sellers as a commission for the wealthy Fugger family of Augsburg. Campi’s “Fishmongers” depicts its subjects eating beans, dark bread, and scallions, which were the exact foods listed as only suitable for the working classes in Bartolomeo Pisanelli’s influential “Trattato della natura de’ cibi et del bere” published in 1585. Enjoy your new Fishmongers by Vincenzo Campi Painting jigsaw puzzle!