Silvia De Bastiani

Latemer, Torre di Pisa, Watercolor On Canvas by Silvia De Bastiani, 2018

2018

Italian alpine Brenva e Mont Blanc landscape, 2019 Watercolour on paper, stretched on canvas, inch 44.8 x 63 About the artist, Silvia De Bastiani: she best embodies the values of h...

Cattleya labiata var. coerulea, 2020 Tempera on canvas with gilding inch 29.5 x 15.7 Botanical watercolourist. Born in Bergamo in 1974. She graduated from the Brera Academy of Fine...

Florentine, Probably Seventeenth Century Titled L’ultime parti note nel Indie occidentali Dated on the edge of the cartouche: “M.D. LXIII. M.AG” [1564…the month of August] In the 1560s Cosimo I de’Medici, the powerful Duke of Florence, undertook a major renovation of the Palazzo Vecchio, the venerable palace that to this day dominates the city at the Piazza della Signoria. For the Sala della Guardaroba, literally the wardrobe room, but in fact the storeroom of the Duke’s most precious holdings, Cosimo conceived of a grand decorative project that was to reflect in one space the entire cosmos --both an indication of the Duke’s ambition and an allusion to his name. The plan, supervised by Giorgio Vasari, involved the construction of walnut cabinets to contain the Medici treasures, on the outside doors of which were to be placed large hand-painted maps specially commissioned to document and illustrate the current knowledge of the world. Portraits of famous men were to decorate the tops of the cabinets and two large globes –one representing the terrestrial world, the other celestial—were to descend from openings in the ceiling. The commission for the maps, inspired by Ptolemy’s Geographia, was given to the celebrated mathematician and cosmographer, Fra Egnazio Danti (Perugia 1536-1585 Alatri). Fifty-three maps were ultimately created. Thirty were conceived and executed by Danti between 1563 and 1575. The remaining twenty-three were completed by Stefano Bonsignori between 1576 and 1686. They remain in place in Florence in the room for which they were created. The present work is an exact-size painted, drawn and inscribed copy of Danti’s map of California...

Painting of Abstract Red, Blue & Yellow Wild Flowers on a White Background by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This original is from the 'Spring Burst' Interior Design ...