Antique Florence

The last photo represents Christ on the stone in the Church of Sanit Apostoli in Florence, Italy. Built in the 11th century, it is one of the oldest church buildings in the city.

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Alessandro Altamura trained in Florence, but moved to Paris in the late 19th century, where he exhibited extensively, participating in the prestigious Paris salons.

After living in London for a time she returned to Manchester in 1883 and shared a studio in 10 King Street with the artist Mary Florence Monkhouse. After much campaigning by both Dac...

The work can be attributed to an artist active between the 16th and 17th centuries in Florence, where the figurative tradition has always devoted considerable space to this subject, ...

Antonio Domenico Gabbiani (Florence 1652 – 1726) Portrait of a Nobleman Oil on canvas
 89 × 52.5 cm This refined half-length portrait exemplifies Antonio Domenico Gabbiani’s mature ...

The putti came from a grand palazzo in Florence dating to the late 1600s, condition is very good indeed.

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th-century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed o...

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th-century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed o...

Mounted on a simple ebonized wood base. Purchased in Florence circa 1980. Provenance: Antichità Sandro Morelli

The Egyptian Museum in Florence preserves a head, also made of basalt, which shows an identical treatment of the eyelids.

He returned to Italy, traveling to Venice, Florence and Rome. He took up the glazing technique of the old Venetian masters to get warmth, transparency, and depth of color.

An exceptional cast-stone planter dating to Victorian England, based on the “Medici Vase” from ancient Greece, once in the collection of the prestigious family now at the Uffizi in F...

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th-century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed o...

Large Carrara white marble bust sculpture of a distinguished woman, 26 1/2 inches tall, by the American-born master, Thomas Ridgeway Gould (1818-1881), sculpted in Florence in 1870. ...

His magnum opus, Storia naturale degli uccelli (Natural History of Birds), published in Florence between 1767 and 1776, was a monumental achievement commissioned by the Grand Duchess...

It was he who opened the doors to the great Roman families, which was followed by the assignments at the Medici in Florence. The former in chronological order are characterized by a...

The style still reflects the pictorial stylistic features of the previous century, an extraordinarily fruitful artistic period that saw a succession of leading artistic figures, maki...

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed o...

Third line reads “Original sketch from life by Leopoldo Dumini”. Dumini & Son, Florence, Italy label verso. The painting is housed in its original elaborately ornate gold frame ...

Provenance: Collection Pratesi Florence.

He resided in Venice from 1584 until his death, although the stylistic and formal references of some of his works have led critics to believe that in previous years he had undertaken...

Among the retailers mentioned by scholars are: Giorgio Santarelli and Alberto Dall'Eco (the latter was a retailer of scientific instruments and materials, documented between the late...

The painting is now kept at the Palatine Gallery of the Uffizi in Florence **. Considered a masterpiece by the artist, even by ancient sources, the painting had a very long and in...

He later settled in Italy, where he spent much of his career and remained active in artistic circles in Florence. The artwork is signed lower right, "F. Soulacroix” Provenance: Col...

Signed top right by the artist along with “Florence” where the artist visited in the early 1880’s with his wife.

Major donation of Maurice Marinot (glass and paintings) was made by Pierre and Denise Levy to the Museum of Modern Art in Troyes in 1976. Florence, Marinot's daughter also gave major...

Famous examples include Charles Beaubrun's portrait depicting her as Diana the Huntress, or the French painting in the Pitti Palace in Florence, which also shows her as Diana the Hun...

The work, probably based on a real place, is certainly inspired by one of the many gardens that adorned the large villas on the hills between Florence and Rome. Our artist must neces...

Born in Verona, Ligozzi flourished in Florence around the year 1620. He died at the age of 76.

The group of horsemen represented to the right of the examined painting is, in fact, comparable with other groups on horseback present in numerous works by Manciola such as, for exam...

The signature Pugi refers to the Florentine sculptor Guglielmo Pugi (1850–1915), whose works were widely distributed at the end of the 19th century through the renowned Fratelli Gill...

Fortunate enough to hire a tutor for him, she took her protégé to Florence, Naples, Venice, Amsterdam, to see Titian, Rembrandt and Vermeer.

Such rich iconography is rare in frames, suggesting this example was conceived not merely as a decorative border but as a statement piece in its own right. Origin: Florence, Italy Da...

D’après Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), La Madone du Sac (after the fresco in the Chiostro della Santissima Annunziata, Florence), 1877 Engraving on wove paper. This finely executed e...

Emilio Fiaschi, active in Florence in the late 19th century, was celebrated for his romantic genre figures of young women and children.

The original painted in 1637 hangs in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. This painting is presented in a heavily carved and gilded frame.

After briefly staying in Paris and Florence, the Chapmans settled in Rome, where their father trained Conrad and his brother John Linton for careers in art.

G.B. Gatti was born in Florence where he became apprentice to the brothers Luigi and Angelo Falcini, who specialised and excelled in marquetry, before establishing a workshop of his ...

Technique: Hand-colored copperplate engraving Maker: Giulio Ferrario / Luigi Giarre, Florence, Italy, early 19th century

Cesare Lapini (1848 - 1893) - Born in Florence, Lapini was a famous and acclaimed Italian sculptor of the 19th century who sculpted both small marble and larger works.

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed o...

Large mirror made by a Florentine woodcarver working in the early 18th century (it can be hung on the wall in either direction) Tuscany (Florence) Louis XIV style Carved and g...

. - Les Paruriers - Bijoux de la Haute Couture by Florence Muller. Fond Mercator, Brussels Editions.

The monastic costume, rendered without specific order insignia, is characteristic of Southern German Baroque sculpture.The cult of the Arme Seelen, formally sanctioned by the Church ...

The technique of veneered marquetry had its inspiration in 16th century Florence. Marquetry elaborated upon Florentine techniques of inlaying solid marble slabs with designs formed o...

A beautifully executed Italian oval mirror, crafted in Florence and finished in a rich combination of burnished silver leaf and water-gilded gold.

In 1954, Reder went to Italy to sculpt in Rome and Florence. In 1956, he was given a one-man exhibition at The Galleria d'Arte Moderno L'Indiano, Florence, which received much attent...

Engraving was an unusual profession for women in Florence during the period.

Central Italy includes Florence, Pisa, and Rome, while the southern regions show Naples and the mountainous landscapes of Calabria and Basilicata.

Venetian landscape painting became a highly successful genre, satisfying the demands of patrician families and nobles, especially English and German, but also French, who visited the...

Acquired from a country house in Pescia, a prosperous silk town between Lucca and Florence, it evokes the cultivated restraint of Italy’s Enlightenment age.

Florence Jebb made friends with Caroll when still a child.

The 19th-century Renaissance Revival brought renewed demand for historically inspired pharmacy vessels across Umbria, Faenza, and Florence, as workshops returned to the albarello for...

Cresting above a cartouche shaped engraved mirror depicting an Architectural scene, above a rectangular plate within moulded frame carved with C-scrolls flowers and acanthus leafs, t...

Once exhibited at the Bienalle in Florence Italy.  And later purchased from a bank in Venezia, Italy. 

The case back has been personalized, rendering period script engraving of the name "Florence." Appropriate for the serious collector of Victorian era horology, the Tiffany & Co. ent...