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Old Masters Art

OLD MASTERS

Encompassing centuries of change in Europe between 1300 and 1800, from booms of prosperity to bloody revolutions, Old Masters describes a wide range of artists. The informal term was derived from the title of an artist who trained in a guild long enough to become a master, such as Leonardo da Vinci, who studied in a Florence painters’ guild. However, Old Masters paintings, prints and other art is now used to refer to work made by any artist with a high level of skill in painting, drawing, sculpture or printmaking who worked during this era.

The 15th century’s expansive trade and commerce spread culture across borders. A vibrant period of art emerged, bolstered by studies of anatomy and nature that influenced a new visual realism. From Raphael and Michelangelo in the Renaissance to Rembrandt van Rijn and Johannes Vermeer in the Dutch Golden Age, artists expressed emotion, naturalism, color and light in new ways. El Greco and Paolo Veronese were leaders in the dramatic style of Mannerism, while Caravaggio and Peter Paul Rubens demonstrated the movement and meticulous detail of Baroque art.

Historically, most attention was concentrated on male artists, but recent research and exhibitions have elevated the impactful work of women such as Rachel Ruysch and Artemisia Gentileschi. In late-18th-century France, female artists like Adélaïde Labille-Guiard and Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun were prominent names. Nevertheless, access to the academies and guilds was highly restricted for women, and even those able to establish practices were expected to adhere to portraits and still lifes rather than the grand history paintings being created by men.

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Style: Old Masters
Decoration With Fishes - Etching by F. Cepparuli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decoration With Fishes is an Etching realized by Francesco Cepparuli (1750-1767). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le An...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Portrait de Dieudonne Charles Delorme, Heliogravure by Jacques Callot
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jacques Callot, After by Amand Durand, French (1592 - 1635) - Portrait de Dieudonne Charles Delorme, Year: Printed 1878, Medium: Heliogravure, Size: 8 x 4.5 in. (20.32 x 11.43 cm)...
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1870s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Wildlife - Etching by Jean Lepautre - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Wildlife is an etching realized by Jean Le Pautre in 18th Century. Good conditions. Signed on plate. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes.
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Palazzo Pio - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Palazzo Pio is an etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions except for consumed margins with some foxing...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Portrait - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late edition of the 19th ce...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Oriental Head - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Head is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonderful piece of art belongs to a late edition...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Engraving

Bacchus with Thyrsus - Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Bacchus with Thyrsus And Pan from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some fo...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Jupiter and Antiope: Smaller Plat - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Jupiter and Antiope: Smaller Plate on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1631. This wonderful...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Engraving

Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet S - Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum - Letter of the Alphabet S, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th century. ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Pompeian Styles Wall Painting - Etching by Nicola Billy - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Pompeian Styles Wall Painting from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Nicola Billy in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions and aged. ...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

The organ Grinder
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Adriaen Van Ostade (Dutch, 1610-1685) Title: The Organ Grinder Year: 1647 Medium: Etching Paper: Laid paper Image (plate mark) size: 4.35 x 3.5 i...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Statue - Original Etching by Carlo Nolli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Statue, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Carlo Nolli in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate, on the lower ri...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco - Original Etching by Giovanni Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good condi...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Basilica e Monasterio di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura by G. Vasi - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Basilica e Monasterio di S.Paolo Fuori le Mura is an etching on paper of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Tuscan Proverbs - Etching by Carlo Lasinio - 1786
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Proverbs is an original etching realized by Carlo Lasinio in 1786. Etching and watercolour technique, in good conditions, except for some stains on the back of the yellowed p...
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1780s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Monastero e Chiesa di S.Giuseppe - Etching by G. Vasi - 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Monastero e Chiesa di S.Giuseppe is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions except for som...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Heads of a Man - Original Etching by Anker Smith - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Heads of a man is an original artwork realized by Anker Smith for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the...
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1810s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Genesis 27 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Sisto Badalocchio - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Genesis 27 -Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Sisto Badalocchio. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout i...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Anatomy Studies after Guido Reni - Etching by Nicholas Cochin - 1755
Located in Roma, IT
Anatomy Studies after Guido Reni is an etching realized by Nicholas Cochin in 1755. Good conditions with slight foxing. Signed in the plate. The etching was realized for the anato...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Self-portrait with a Broad Nose - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-portrait with a Broad Nose is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Engraving

Archiginnasio della Sapienza - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Archiginnasio della Sapienza is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed ...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Joshua 10 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Joshua 10 - Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout included 29 x 39 cm The artwork is in good condition with some foxing. Together Giovanni Lanfranco with Sisto Badalocchio (q.v.), he was a pupil in Parma of Agostino Carracci (1557-1602). Again with Badalocchio, he traveled to Rome in 1602, following Agostino's death, to work under Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), where the two assisted him with, among other projects, the completion of the decoration of the Galleria Farnese. Lanfranco's return to Rome in 1612, he was for long the close rival of Domenichino (q.v.) for some of the most prestigious commissions of the day. Lanfranco's reputation was secured by his 'proto-Baroque', illusionistic fresco in the style of Correggio in the dome of S.Andrea della Valle, painted in 1625-7. In 1634 Lanfranco transferred to Naples, where he painted fresco decorations in the Gesu Nuovo (1634-5); the Certosa di S. Martino (1637-8/9; see 1967,0211.2); SS Apostles (1638-46; see 1895,0915.728); and the Cappella del Tesoro in the cathedral of S. Gennaro. He returned to Rome in 1646, where his last major commission from him was his fresco decoration of the 'Glory of St Carlo Borromeo...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Mercury, Old Masters Heliogravure Etching by Marcantonio Raimondi
By Marcantonio Raimondi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Marcantonio Raimondi, After by Amand Durand, Italian (1480 - 1534) - Mercury, Year: 1875, Medium: Heliogravure on Laid Paper, Size: 13 x 8.5 in. (33.02 x 21.59 cm), Printer: Amand...
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1870s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" by Giuseppe Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Giuseppe Aloja in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions. The etching belongs to ...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Self-Portrait with Plumed Cap - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait with Plumed Cap and Lowered Sabre is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand after an etching by Rembrandt dated 1634. This wonderful piece...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Engraving

Genesis 2 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Genesis 2 -Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Sisto Badalocchio. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout included 29 x 39 cm The artwork is...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Decorative Wall Fresco - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Decorative Wall Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Goo...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Self-Portrait, Stuurs kKijkend - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Self-Portrait, stuurs kijkend is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This piece of art belongs to a late e...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Engraving

Chiesa di S.Niccolo de' Perfetti - Etching by G. Vasi - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Chiesa di S.Niccolo de' Perfetti is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions except for con...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Muletiers de Tetuan, Modern Lithograph by Eugene Delacroix
Located in Long Island City, NY
Eugene Delacroix, French (1798 - 1863) - Muletiers de Tetuan, Year: 1833, Medium: Lithograph on Japon, Image Size: 8 x 10.5 inches, Size: 9.5 x 14 in. (24.13 x 35.56 cm), Publisher...
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1830s Old Masters Art

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Lithograph

Collegio Clementino - Etching by Giuseppe Vasi - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Collegio Clementino is an original black and white etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. The beautiful etching represents a glimpse of Rome. Signed and titled...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed - Original Etching - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed, original etching from the end of the 18th century, made by Various Old Masters. Good condition. Units of meas...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Exodus 16 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Exodus 16 -Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus Emmaillotte, Heliogravure by Albrecht Dürer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Albrecht Durer, After by Amand Durand, German (1471 - 1528) - La Vierge avec l'Enfant Jesus Emmaillotte, Year: 1873, Medium: Heliogravure on laid paper, Size: 6 x 4 in. (15.24 x ...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Head of a Man with Turban - Engraving after Rembrandt - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Head of a Man with Turban is an engraving on ivory-colored paper realized by Charles Amand Durand (1831-1905) after an etching by Rembrandt. This wonde...
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19th Century Old Masters Art

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Engraving

Tuscan Proverbs - Etching by Carlo Lasinio - 1786
Located in Roma, IT
Tuscan Proverbs is an original etching realized by Carlo Lasinio in 1786. Etching and watercolour technique, in good conditions, except for some stains on the back of the yellowed p...
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1780s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Exodus 2 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Sisto Badalocchio - 1607s
Located in Roma, IT
Exodus 2 - Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Sisto Badalocchio. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout in...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Que Locura - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1863
Located in Roma, IT
Que Locura is an original artwork realized by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya in 1810. Original Etching on paper. The artwork belongs to the famous series "Los Desastres ...
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1860s Old Masters Art

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Etching, Aquatint

Principi Etruriae Duci - Etching by Charles Simonneau - Late 1600
By Charles Simonneau
Located in Roma, IT
Principi Etruriae Duci is an original artwork realized by the French artist Charles Simonneau in the second half of the XVII Century. Original Etching on paper. D'aprés Charles Le B...
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Late 17th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Letter L - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter L is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in 18th century. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (ori...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Letter V - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter V is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Convento dei Padri di S.Bernardo, e Chiesa di S.Pudenziana by G. Vasi
Located in Roma, IT
Monastero e Chiesa di S.Giuseppe is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions except for con...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Joshua 26 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Joshua 26 - Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco. About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. Passpartout included 29 x 39 cm The artwork is in good condition with some foxing. Together Giovanni Lanfranco with Sisto Badalocchio (q.v.), he was a pupil in Parma of Agostino Carracci (1557-1602). Again with Badalocchio, he traveled to Rome in 1602, following Agostino's death, to work under Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), where the two assisted him with, among other projects, the completion of the decoration of the Galleria Farnese. Lanfranco's return to Rome in 1612, he was for long the close rival of Domenichino (q.v.) for some of the most prestigious commissions of the day. Lanfranco's reputation was secured by his 'proto-Baroque', illusionistic fresco in the style of Correggio in the dome of S.Andrea della Valle, painted in 1625-7. In 1634 Lanfranco transferred to Naples, where he painted fresco decorations in the Gesu Nuovo (1634-5); the Certosa di S. Martino (1637-8/9; see 1967,0211.2); SS Apostles (1638-46; see 1895,0915.728); and the Cappella del Tesoro in the cathedral of S. Gennaro. He returned to Rome in 1646, where his last major commission from him was his fresco decoration of the 'Glory of St Carlo Borromeo...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Letter U - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter A is an etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli artist of 18th century. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichit...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Letter U - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter U is an Etching realized by Luigi Vanvitelli. The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “Le Antichità di Ercolano Esposte”)...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Dancing Maenad - Etching by Filippo Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Dancing Maenad from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Filippo Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions with some folding. Th...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Portrait of Women and Children - Original Etching by James Neagle - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Women and Children is an original artwork realized by James Neagle for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promo...
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1810s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Fresco Herculaneum - Etching G. Morghen - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Fresco from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Giovanni Morghen in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good conditions exc...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Ancient Roman Drawings - Etching after N. Vanni - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Roman Drawings, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an original etching on paper realized by Secondo De Angelis after a design by Nicolò Vanni in the 18th centur...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Genesis 7 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607
Located in Roma, IT
Genesis 7 - Old Testament Story is an original Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco. About The Old Testament Story, 1607ca. Passpartout included 29 x 39 cm The ...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Seascape with Monument and Figures - Etching by Luigi Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Seascape With Monument and Figures is an Etching realized by Luigi Aloja (1783-1837). The etching belongs to the print suite “Antiquities of Herculaneum Exposed” (original title: “L...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Letter of the Alphabet Q - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet Q, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century. Good conditions. The etching belon...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Colleggio Nazzareno - Etching by G. Vasi - Late 18th century
Located in Roma, IT
Colleggio Nazzareno is an original etching of the Late 18th century realized by Giuseppe Vasi. Signed and titled on plate lower margin. Good conditions except for margins with som...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Letter of the Alphabet A - Etching by Luigi Vanvitelli - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Letter of the Alphabet A, from the series "Antiquities of Herculaneum", is an etching on paper realized by Luigi Vanvitelli in the 18th century. Good conditions. The etching belon...
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Late 18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

Genesis 31 - Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607s
Located in Roma, IT
Genesis 31 - Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco. About The Old Testament Story, 1607ca. Passpartout included 29 x 39 cm The artwork...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Bird Fresco - Etching by Giuseppe Aloja - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Birds Fresco from "Antiquities of Herculaneum" is an etching on paper realized by Giuseppe Aloja in the 18th Century. Signed on the plate. Good condit...
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18th Century Old Masters Art

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Etching

The Impalement of Enemy - Etching by G. Pivati - 1746/1751
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm. The Impalement of Enemy is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing the i...
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1740s Old Masters Art

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Etching

Old Testament Story - Etching by Giovanni Lanfranco - 1607s
Located in Roma, IT
Old Testament Story is an Etching print realized by the artist Giovanni Lanfranco after Agostino Carracci About The Old Testament Story, 1607 ca. ...
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Early 1600s Old Masters Art

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Etching

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Find a wide variety of authentic Old Masters art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of orange, yellow, blue and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Charles Amand Durand, Giuseppe Vasi, Thomas Holloway, and Vincenzo Campana. Frequently made by artists working with Etching, and Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Old Masters art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $11 and tops out at $1,495,000, while the average work sells for $546.

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