Andries Both

His work is noted for its humorous and outrageous quality, mixed with objectivity and harsh reality, depicting the seamier side of Italian life with broad strokes.

The style, known as Bambocciata, after the nickname of its originator, the Dutch painter Pieter van Laer, who was known in Rome as il bamboccio,, which means "ugly doll" or "puppet".

This was an allusion to van Laer's ungainly appearance, as he is said to have had unusually long legs, short chest and almost no neck.

[3] These Bambocciata works were informed by existing traditions of depicting peasant subjects from 16th-century Netherlandish art.

They were generally small cabinet paintings or etchings of the everyday life of the lower classes in Rome and its countryside.