Items Similar to Angels Making Music - 16th Century Renaissance Fresco Fragment - Lombardy Italy
Want more images or videos?
Request additional images or videos from the seller
1 of 24
Italian RenaissanceAngels Making Music - 16th Century Renaissance Fresco Fragment - Lombardy ItalyCa. 1525
Ca. 1525
About the Item
Italian Renaissance
Angels Making Music - 16th Century Renaissance Fresco Fragment - Lombardy Italy
A detached Renaissance Fresco dating to the early 16th century, depicting three Angels making Music by an unknown 16th Century Lombardian Artist
• Frame, ca. 74 x 44 cm
• Panel, ca. 23 x 49.5 cm
• Fragment, ca 22 x 48 cm
Charming fragment, of what was once a larger renaissance fresco mural most likely in a private North Italian / Southern Swiss chapel over five centuries ago. Depicted is a heavenly orchestra, reminiscent of the compositions by Bernardino Luini (1480/83-1532) and Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494) of angels making music. The Angels and instruments are very finely painted with sections of the original gilding remaining.
The fresco layer was removed from its wall using the “ Calicot ” also called the “ Strappo method ”, with small fragments of the old lower canvas still visible where plaster is missing and/or what looks like the upper canvas weave impressed on infills.
The plaster layer was then laid down on a wood panel.
When buildings with frescos would become derelict, be it either through decay, disaster or war (or all together), the frescos were sometimes saved by stripping them off the wall, stored away, never re-mounted and often forgotten. Others would be laid on canvass and skillfully attached to a stretcher, to continue to delight for centuries to come.
Now, it is not known to me when the fresco fragment actually was separated from its wall or where that wall actually stood. However the fragment was laid onto a 20th century wood panel (pre/early 1970) and the uneven edges where tidied with dark, coarse plaster. The plywood panel supporting the fresco layer was then mounted on a velvet covered board and framed in heavy gilt oak.
Recent Provenance:
From about 1970 on, part of private collection Germany -> 2009 through inheritance into a private collection in Switzerland -> 2011, 14th May, Auction Ketterer Kunst (Germany), Lot 43 (catalogued as early 16thC, Lombardy - remained unsold/returned to the owner) -> 2020 acquired by myself.
I am ASGrond - Art & Antiques. Passionate collector, purveyor and artist. Here on 1stdibs I am offering Fine Art that I have collected over the last thirty years. Phantoms of Time - Things of the past - for you to add to your future and so enriching your life’s tapestry. I often choose to leave objects in the state I acquired them, chiefly to retain as much of their originality as possible, but also to leave open all options regarding the object’s future treatment and appearance. Examine the provided photographs and ask questions. I am here to assist you to my best of knowledge. Although I do of course accept returns, costs are incurred on both sides – so be sure you are confident regarding condition before purchase of any item. I deliver worldwide for free – so no extra costs on top of the sale price. I do however decline to accept responsibility for any declaration made to the customs authority concerning import and export. These include age, value and provenience and so on as well as the taxes concerning these. Meaning, you the buyer cover all incurring import costs, duties and taxes on your end. I pack the goods myself and very carefully. Where it makes sense, for environmental reasons I will use recycled packing materials. Allthough I generally ship using the Swiss Postal Priority Service, However for this valuable freso I will be using a specialist courier.
Thank you for your interest and please note, that I offer free worldwide shipping on all my items.
- Creator:Italian Renaissance
- Creation Year:Ca. 1525
- Dimensions:Height: 30.32 in (77 cm)Width: 17.33 in (44 cm)Depth: 2.76 in (7 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:
- Condition:The fresco is stable, dry surfaced and clean, with very little in- or over painting and hand full of small spots of infill - see plain & UV photos.
- Gallery Location:Meinisberg, CH
- Reference Number:
About the Seller
5.0
Vetted Seller
These experienced sellers undergo a comprehensive evaluation by our team of in-house experts.
Established in 2013
1stDibs seller since 2021
35 sales on 1stDibs
Typical response time: 1 hour
- ShippingRetrieving quote...Ships From: Meinisberg, Switzerland
- Return PolicyA return for this item may be initiated within 3 days of delivery.
More From This SellerView All
- Garçon avec des Fruit - Boy with Fruit - Oil on Canvas - Naive PaintingBy Nino GiuffridaLocated in Meinisberg, CHNino Giuffrida (Sicilian, 1924, active in France) Un Garçon avec des Fruits • Oil on canvas, ca. 41 x 33 cm • Frame, made by the renowned framer Knöll from Zürich, ca. 54 x 46 cm • Signed top left Born in 1924 in Sicily, Nino already attended the artistic high school in Catania at the age of 17, where he befriended fellow painters including Pippo Aleo and Giovanni Calogero. At that time, he painted with passion everything he saw, landscapes, seascapes, still lifes. After a first attempt to come to France with his friend Giovanni in 1948, aborted for lack of a visa. Nino finally arrived at the Gare de Lyon on December 8, 1949 and settled at number 30 rue Gabrielle in Montmartre. Nino began to paint Paris. Like many Montmartre artists of this period, while he painted all day long, he moved about in the evening on the terraces of the cafés of Montmartre and Saint-Germain-des-Prés to transform himself into a portrait painter and randomly sketch the customers in restaurants. Nino then devoted himself more and more to the painting of children, which became his favorite theme of inspiration. Pierre Imbourg, journalist and art critic, wrote of him: "Montmartre, the land of little ‘Poulbots’, inspiring Nino to record in his mind all these childrens faces whose intense facial expression he would endevour to reproduce". It was also at this time that his career as a Montmartre painter influenced by cubism began. With the disappearance of the art galleries in Montmartre, Nino decides to settle on the French Riviera, in Cannes then in Vallauris. From 1952 his personal exhibitions follow one another and Nino becomes an international painter: Rome, Brussels, Chicago, Copenhagen, Helsingborg and Aüs in Sweden, in Geneva, in Kourou in Guyana... In Paris, he manages the Galerie de la Colonne...Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Robert von Steiger (1856-1941) Portrait Dutch Officer A. v. Steiger 1884 HollandLocated in Meinisberg, CHJohann Ludwig Robert von Steiger (Swiss, * 8th of January, 1856, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; † 1st of June, 1941, Buenos Aires, Argentina) Portrait of Karl Alfred Arthur von Steiger Lie...Category
1880s Victorian Portrait Paintings
MaterialsWood Panel, Oil
- Guido Reni Follower – The Death of Cleopatra – 17th Century Italian SchoolBy Guido ReniLocated in Meinisberg, CHItalian School By a follower of Guido Reni (1575-1642) The Death of Cleopatra • 17th Century • Oil on octagonal hewn oak panel, ca. 25 x 19 cm • Octagonal frame, constructed out of a 19th Century gilt frame, ca. 32.5 x 27 cm Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no charges for handling & delivery Cleopatra, the last empress...Category
Mid-17th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings
MaterialsOil, Wood Panel
- 17thC Spanish Colonial School Frame with orig. Painting St. Joseph Jesus ChildBy Spanish Colonial (Peruvian)Located in Meinisberg, CH17th Century Spanish Colonial School (Likely to be School of Cuzco in Peru) - St. Joseph with the Christ Child carrying a basket, housed in its original carved, hardwood frame. • Painted in oil on canvas (laid on to fiberboard), ca.58 x 48 cm • Original frame, ca. 64 x 54 cm • Visible image ca. 52.5 x 42.5 cm Centuries ago this religious painting, depicting St. Joseph with his flowering staff and the Christ Child carrying a basket, was originally displayed in a church or chapel in 17th Century colonial...Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
MaterialsGold Leaf
- Hans Bertle (1880 1945) Geburt des Todes, 1924 (Cain and Abel) - Symbolist OilBy Hans BertleLocated in Meinisberg, CHHans Bertle (Austrian, 1880-1943) Geburt des Todes - Kain und Abel (Birth of Death - Cain und Abel) • Symbolistic painting • Oil on canvas, ca. 62 x 72 cm • Original Frame, ca. 87 ...Category
1920s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Hedwig Mechle – Grossmann (1857 - 1928) Rose Flower Girl , 1920 - Oil PaintingBy Hedwig Mechle-GrossmannLocated in Meinisberg, CHHedwig Mechle - Grossmann (Germann, * 3rd of December 1857, Görlitz - † 1st of October, 1928 Ödenburg) Die Kleine Rosenverkäuferin - The Little Rose Seller • Oil on carse canvas, ca. 100 x 75 cm • Frame, 107 x 81 cm • Signed and dated 1920 upper right This large painting will make everybody stop, look, smile and want to buy a lovely rose from that charming girl. Take your time and have a look at the details … the stopper of the water ceramic bottle, her piece of bread, the torn and frayed clothing and more. Worldwide shipping is complimentary - There are no additional charges for handling & delivery. Hedwig Mechle-Grossmann is well known and appreciated for her expressive genre scenes depicting children. Born in Görlitz, she worked in Berlin and moved on to Ödenburg, where she died. Important examples of her work are held in the Ödenburg Landesmuseum. A few words on condition: The painting has received slight sympathetic restoration - The partially frayed edges have been professionally relined with a narrow strip of new canvas for strength and then the canvas has been re-stretched on to the original stretcher, with the arms of the stretcher covering most of the newly attached strips of canvas. One of the arms of the stretcher has suffered slight worm damage in the past. That short section has been treated, stabilized and the restorer covered the unsightly area with a strip of the same canvas, which was used to reline the edges. The frame seems to be original (certainly early 20thC) - the corners have been re-glued, small areas have been retouched and minor sections of the molding are missing. New small woodblocks...Category
1920s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
You May Also Like
- Allegory of Music School After Lorenzo LippiLocated in Pasadena, CAAfter Lorenzo Lippi (Florence, May 6, 1606 - Florence, April 15, 1665) is a Baroque painter of the Florentine school and a seventeenth-century Italian poet.Category
17th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil
- St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching to the People of SalamancaLocated in New York, NYProvenance: Private Collection, New Jersey The present painting depicts Saint Vincent Ferrer preaching from a raised pulpit to a group of seven peopl...Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil, Wood Panel
- "Lady". Contemporary Figurative Oil PaintingBy Sax BerlinLocated in Brecon, PowysThis piece from Berlin's studio dates back to 2003 but has only now been released. She's an a la mode young woman from the halcyon days of the Belle Epoque; confident and bewitching ...Category
Early 2000s Renaissance Portrait Paintings
MaterialsMarble
- The Holy Family with saints Anne and Joseph. Tuscan school. Circa 1610.Located in Firenze, ITThe Holy family with St. Joseph and St. Anna. Tuscan school. Late mannerist period, Circa 1610. Oil on canvas. Size 102cm x 77cm Painting by an unknown Tuscan painter from the lat...Category
18th Century and Earlier Renaissance Figurative Paintings
MaterialsCanvas, Oil
- Portrait of Saint Catherine Medieval Renaissance Style Standing in Landscape oilLocated in Cirencester, GloucestershireContinental School, 20th century oil on board, framed framed: 33 x 17.5 inches board: 30 x 13 inches private collection, England the painting is in overall very good and sound cond...Category
20th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
MaterialsOil
- 1700's Old Master Oil Wood Panel Five Female Saints Beautiful Quality workLocated in Cirencester, GloucestershireFigurative Group Roman Catholic Saints Italian School, late 17th century/ early 1700's sketch of a lamb showing verso to panel oil painting on panel, framed framed: 20 x 24 inches bo...Category
17th Century Renaissance Portrait Paintings
MaterialsWood Panel, Oil
Recently Viewed
View AllMore Ways To Browse
Italian Bes
Antique Italy
Antique Italian
Italy Antique
Italian Antique
Old Italy
Old Italian
Antique Italian Art
Framed Painting Italy
Italian Original Painting
Original Paintings Of Italy
Antique Renaissance
Antique Italian Painting Paintings
Italian Wars
Italian War
Early Italian Paintings
Old Italian Artist
Old Italian Antique