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Tempera on Paper Panels China, end 18th century for Europe

1700s

Tempera on paper, applied to hardboard. The biblical episode depicted, described in the book of Exodus, tells how young Moses, still at the court of the Pharaoh of Egypt, defends the...

The painting features the enthroned Madonna and Child, two praying angels, and Saints Nicholas of Tolentino, Augustine, Luke the Evangelist, and Monica, below an elegant canopy. The ...

Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italian school of the seventeenth century. The large canvas derives from an engraving of 1562 by the Venetian Giulio Sanuto, who faithfully reproduce...

The figure of the Magdalene emerges from the darkness, leaning to follow the curve of the stone support; it is depicted vaulted with an interrogative air towards the dark, as if in an attitude of listening, the left hand raised and the other leaning on the "memento mori" very shortened. In front of her a scourge and the jar of ointment. Painted en pendant, Saint John the Baptist is depicted as a young man, with a lamb at his feet, in his hand the processional cross with the banner "exception agnus dei", while with his right hand he draws from the source of water, recalling the episode that will see Jesus Christ baptized. In both paintings the figures stand out in a strong and incisive way thanks to the black that characterizes the slate plate on which they are depicted. Historical-critical analysis: We are faced with two examples of oil painting on stone. The beginnings of this particular technique are to be placed in the first half of the sixteenth century: after some fifteenth-century experiments it is with Sebastiano del Piombo that the genre takes hold in the sixteenth century. There were different types of support used, also linked to their availability: amethyst, marble in various colors, alabaster and blackboard. The reasons underlying this technical choice refer to Renaissance artistic theories: it is no coincidence that the painter who most often experimented with oil painting on marble...

Oil on Canvas. Neapolitan school of the seventeenth-eighteenth century. It is a traditional scene of Christ's deposition from the Cross, with his inert, pale body lowered into the ar...

Oil painting on canvas. Northern Italy school. The depiction of the Nativity is seen here as a contemplative moment of the Holy Child, by Mary and Joseph, accompanied by little angel...

Roman Countryside is an original modern artwork realized in 1908 by Edoardo Gioja. Mixed media. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Includes frame. Edoardo Gioja (Rome, 1862 - Rome, 1937), an Italian painter and artist. He treated the decoration and portrait with Pre-Raphaelite taste. Influenced by Nino Costa, he repudiated genre painting by reproducing marines, countries, plants, animals and painted and drew with simplicity and with very effective results. He decorated several rooms in London and prepared cartoons for stained glass...

Roman Countryside is an original modern artwork realized in 1908 by Edoardo Gioja. Mixed media. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin. Includes frame. Edoardo Gioia (Rome, 1862 - Rome, 1937), an Italian painter and artist. He treated the decoration and portrait with Pre-Raphaelite taste. Influenced by Nino Costa, he repudiated genre painting by reproducing marines, countries, plants, animals and painted and drew with simplicity and with very effective results. He decorated several rooms in London and prepared cartoons for stained glass...

Christian Charity is an original Old Master Painting realized in the first half of the XVII Century, most probably in the 1630s, by one of the pupils of the Italian artist Bernardo Strozzi...

The Valley of the Temples is an original modern artwork realized in 19th century. Mixed colored tempera. Include frame. Titled on the lower margin: Veduta del tempio esastilo peri...

The Temptation is a modern artwork realized by Georges Valmier in the early 20th Century. Mixed colored tempera painting. Hand signed on the lower m...

Mosque in Constantinople is an original artwork realized in the mid-20th century, and attributed to Gustavo Francalancia. Original mixed colored tempera and watercolor on plywood. ...