18th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Painting Historical / Biblical Subject, 1720

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting biblical subject Rachel and Jacob at the well of good pictorial quality. Painting of pleasant decor ...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Bishop of good pictorial quality. Beautifully sized and pleasant decor painting ad...

Antique Flemish landscape from the first half of the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas depicting landscape with characters and large tower of good pictorial quality. Beautifully pa...

Ancient Italian painting from the 18th century. Oil on canvas famework depicting a seascape with characters and architectures of good pictorial quality. Nice size painting and pleasa...

Antique Flemish painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on panel depicting a portrait of a noblewoman with a plumed hat of good pictorial quality. 20th century frame in wood an...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Work oil on canvas depicting a religious subject Moses Drawing Water from the Rock of a good pictorial quality. Painting of great meas...

Veneto, Italy, early 18th century Oil on canvas 20th century frame carved and gilded in pure gold Dimensions: cm W 93 x H 78,5 x D 5.

SHIPPING POLICY: No additional costs will be added to this order. Shipping costs will be totally covered by the seller (customs duties included). An allegory of the love Omnia vincit amor...

2.nd Half of the 18th cenutury, hand-colored The pictures are showing dance scenes based on Etrukian vase painting.

2nd Half of the 18th cenutury, hand-colored The pictures are showing dance scenes based on Etrukian vase painting.

Painting by Pietro Domenico Ollivero. "Manio Annio Curio Dentato receives the ambassadors of the Samnites", around 1740 The work in question depicts the scene of and was made by the famous italian painter Pietro Domenico Ollivero. The oval canvas shows on the back the card of the Galleria Caretto in Turin (Italy) with the authentic 1965 Giorgio Caretto. The work was also published in "I Piaceri e le grazie" by Arabella Cifani and Franco Monetti in 1993. The subject refers to the history of Rome and an episode narrated by the historian Valerio Massimo. Manius Curius Dentatus (330 BC - 270 BC), one of the great Romans of the 3rd century B.C. was a consul in ancient Rome, known for ending the Samnite Wars. Elected consul in 290 BC. along with Publio Cornelio Rufino, in the same year he fought and won the Third War against the Samnites and their allies, thus ending a conflict that had lasted for 49 years. He definitively subdued the Sabines and the Greek army of Pyrrhus in the battle of Benevento. He represented the ideal prototype of ancient Roman for the generations that followed in that he avoided public honours; Cato the censor, who collected his sayings, placed him among the great figures of universal history. For centuries after his death (in 270 B.C. while overseeing the construction of the second aqueduct in Rome) his military exploits were recounted and his moral rectitude was praised as an example for all the Romans. Ollivero, in the cultured choice of the episode, illustrates the moment when Manio Curio Dentato is found in his home, characterized by Roman walls, sitting by the fire, on a rustic bench while eating his meal in a "ligneo catillo" (wooden basin...

A fine Arabian horse painting on a sky blue background signed lower left, Circa 1970 - 80. Dimensions: H: 88cm, W: 79cm. Canvas: H: 79cm,...