Cristoforo Munari, Still-life with Porcelain Vases, Flute, Books, and Oranges (1706-1713) The late-Baroque, Italian painter, Cristoforno Munari worked predominantly in still life. The standards of Baroque art were encouraged by the Roman Catholic church and embodied iconography and monarchy though an intensely precise handling of paint. Munari was an official court painter for the Medici...