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XVII Century Consolle Walnut wood, 78 x 78 x 41 cm

Tuscany, 18th century Putto with dolphin Marble, cm h. 55 The sculpture under consideration, made of fine marble, depicts a putto or, more precisely, a water-sprite (perhaps a you...

18th 18th Century Education of the Virgin Embroidered and gold-painted panel, 38 x 32.5 cm

Venetian School of the 16th century Magdalene in the desert Oil on panel, 30 x 35 cm Framed, 48 x 53 cm The roots of the legend of Magdalene in the desert lie in Jacopo da Varagi...

Emilian sole, 16th century Annunciation Oil on panel, 56.5 x 43 cm Framed, 72 x 56 cm The panel under examination depicting the sacred episode of the Annunciation, which can be a...

Central Italian school, 17th century Saint Onophrius Penitent Oil on canvas, 110 x 75 cm Framed, 120 x 83 cm The attached painting, depicting St. Onofrio Penitent, is an excellen...

19thC Couple of chimney sweeps (2) Gilded bronze, 40 x 36 x 11 cm

XVII Century St. Jerome in the study Tempera on parchment, 15 x 12 cm Framed, 20 x 18 cm

Late 18th Century Triumph of Galatea Ivory, mother-of-pearl and metal foil inlay on slate, diam. 16 cm With ebonized wood frame, 27 x 26.5 x 3 cm Accompanied by CITES certificate...

18th 18th Century Devotional panel with Clement XI Painted and gilded paper and wax ovals Framed, 38 x 42 cm The artifact illustrated here constitutes a fine example of a devoti...

XVII Century Pair of putti reggicero Painted and gilded wood

19thC Two seascapes showing the Aragonese castle in Baia and the Bay of Naples Oil on canvas, 55.5x77 cm The two pictorial works under consideration are classified as marine views...

17th Century, Veneto Charity Wood, 50 x 17 cm The work under consideration constitutes a vibrant and complex depiction of the Allegory of Charity (Caritas), the most eminent of th...

Neapolitan school, 17th century Charon ferries souls Oil on canvas, 66 x 87 cm Framed: 83 x 106 cm The attached work, an oil on canvas of the Neapolitan school attributable to th...

18th century, Louis XVI Bedside table with mythological figures Inlaid wood, 78 x 58 x 36 cm The piece of furniture under consideration constitutes a fine example of a Louis XVI-s...

XVII Century Pair of kneeling angels (2) Gilded wood, 120 x 78 x 74 cm

17th century, by Raphael Sanzio The Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple Oil on canvas, 91 x 135 cm The work under consideration takes up the famous fresco The Expulsion of Hel...

Genoa, Louis XV, 18th century Theca Painted wood, 77 x 44 x 27 cm This exquisite 18th-century Louis XV shrine is an emblematic testimony to cabinetmaking and interior decoration o...

Flemish painter, late 17th century Landscape with shepherd and waterfall Oil on canvas, 61 x 97.5 cm Framed, 78 x 114 cm The painting depicts a broad natural landscape conceived ...

18th century, Bergamo School Portrait of Giuseppe Masalia organ maker, 1773 Oil on canvas, 86 x 72 cm The painting, dated March 1773, is an exemplary example of "reality painting"...

Roman school of the 18th century Still Life with Flowers and Fruit Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 64.5 cm Framed, 46 x 70.5 cm This Still Life with Flowers and Fruit fits fully into the ...

Flemish school, 16th century St. Anne, the Virgin and Child Oil on copper, 21 x 16 cm With period frame, 65 x 56 cm The painting depicts three central figures: the Madonna, Baby ...

XVII Century Cupid playing the violin Painting reported on canvas, 174 x 82 cm

XVII Century Angels reccicero (2), Gilded wood, am alt.62

Emilian school, 18th century Pair of live natures with birds Oil on canvas, 28 x 30 cm Framed, 37 x 38.5 cm The northern Italian school of painting developed, as early as the 16t...

Venice, Louis XV Mezzanine cabinet Walnut burl, 131 x 51 x 68 cm The mezzanine, or mezzanine floor, in architecture is a particular normally lowered level of the building, usually...

Mid-17th century, Rubensian School Holy Family with St. John and Elizabeth Oil on copper, 36.3 x 29.5 cm Framed, 47 x 38 cm The glassy texture, glacial in the hardness of the sur...

Russia, 19th century Icon Madonna and Child and patron Tempera on panel, 52 x 40 cm The icon, from the Greek eikon, image, presents the narration of some episodes from the life of...

Venetian school, 18th century Ceiling study Pen and watercolor, 20 x 26.5 cm Framed, 39.5 x 47 cm

French School, 20th century Three brothers Pastel on paper, 77 x 108 cm Framed, 101 x 134 cm Signed and dated lower right "Ducreux 1903" The crayon in question depicts three chi...

19thC Landscape at sunset Oil on canvas, 81 x 105 cm Framed, 108 x 131 cm

19th century, by Giovanni Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato, 1609 - Rome, 1685) Praying Madonna Oil on canvas, 44 x 54 cm Framed, 88 x 60 cm Giovanni Battista S...

Lombard School, 17th century Still Life with Flowers Oil on canvas, 52 x 60 cm Framed, 67 x 76 cm The oil on canvas under consideration, depicting a floral jubilation emerging f...

Emilian school, 18th century Madonna and Child Oil on panel, 45 x 24.5 cm Framed, 62 x 44 cm This Madonnai Enthroned with Child fits into the context of the 16th-century Emilian...

XVII Century Landscape with characters Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Framed, 95 x 112 cm

Lombardy, 14th century Tiles with Sormani family coat of arms and portraits (3)Tempera on panel, 17 x 38 cm Between the 15th and 16th centuries, especially in Lombardy and Piedmon...

18th 18th Century Pair of little angels Polychrome wood, cm h 25

18th 18th Century Allegories of the seasons with putti Copper, 60 x 40 cm Framed, 76 x 56 cm The 18th-century slab described here is divided into four scenes with horizontal deve...

18th century, circle of Pietro Antonio Rotari (Verona, Sept. 30, 1707 - St. Petersburg, Aug. 31, 1762) Girl with flower basket Oil on canvas, 52 x 70 cm Framed, 62 x 80 cm Pietr...

19thC Landscape at sunset Oil on canvas, 81 x 105 cm Framed, 108 x 131 cm

19th Century Views of the Bosphorus Oil on canvas, 75.5 x 105 cm Framed, 89 x 118 cm In the full nineteenth-century taste for travel and Orientalism, the two splendid views captu...

17th century, Emilian school Rural landscape with gallant scenes Oil on canvas, 37 x 47.5 cm Framed, 61 x 50.5 cm The bucolic amenity of the present is reflected within the joyo...

18th 18th Century Portrait of Karl Josef of Habsburg-Lorraine oil on canvas, 29x23 cm Framed, 47x37 cm The retractor can be identified as Karl Josef of Habsburg-Lorraine, son of ...

17th century, Flemish School Adoration of the Magi Oil on copper, diam. 19.5 cm Framed 35.3 x 35.3 cm Engraved on the back in seventeenth-century calligraphy "Fiamingo" Vivid wo...

Scuola emiliana, XVII secolo St. Francis Oil on canvas, 73 x 59 cm Framed, 83 x 69 cm Patron saint of Italy, St. Francis (Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; Assisi, 1181/1182 - 1...

19thC Still life with fruits Oil on canvas, 64 x 52 cm The still life analyzed presents a mixture of floral and fruit elements arranged in a circular order on a table covered with...

Inizi XIX secolo Icon of the Nativity of the Mother of God Tempera on panel, 54 x 45 cm The icon in question condenses several scenes from the story of the Virgin, the representa...

French School, 18th century Garden with figures Oil on canvas, 40 x 53 cm Framed, 59 x 72 cm

19thC Eight views of Milan (8) tempera on paper (6) 16,5x21,56 cm - (1) 21,5x16 cm – (1) 17,5x24 cm In these eight views, fine watercolor prints enclosed in elegant period fram...

Venetian school, mid-18th century Loth and the daughters Oil on canvas, 43 x 57 cm Framed, 70 x 84 cm The canvas under consideration clearly depicts Loth and his daughters, the p...

Neapolitan school of the 17th-18th centuries Bacchus and Ariadne abandoned by Theseus Oil on canvas, 74 x 100 cm Framed, 89 x 111 cm The painting under consideration, attributab...

XVII Century Landscape with characters Oil on canvas, 72 x 92 cm Framed, 95 x 112 cm

Italian School, 17th century Madonna and Child with St. John Oil on canvas, 86 x 99 cm Framed, 113 x 93 cm The seventeenth-century painting presents the Virgin intent on presenti...

German ceroplast from the 17th century Bust of a gentlewoman Wax, 36x32.5 cm The use of making wax figures was very common, since ancient times, among the Greeks and Romans, and, ...

18th century, French School Gallant Scenes (2) Oil on panel, 24 x 19 cm Framed, 44 x 36 cm This pair of works attributable to the artistic context of the French eighteenth centu...

Circle of David Teniers (Antwerp, 1610 - Brussels, 1690) Interior with figures of commoners Oil on canvas, 37 x 27 cm Framed, 48 x 37 cm David Teniers the Younger (Antwerp, Dece...

18th 18th Century Mirrors with architectural shape frames (2) Gilded wood, 77 x 58 cm Light, 36 x 29 cm These two mirrors, dating from the 18th century and made of Venetian gilded w...

French school, 18th-19th century The soap bubbles Oil on panel, 44.5 x 36.5 cm Framed, 60 x 54 cm In this French school painting, with its leery and playful tone, but mother lovi...

19thC Pair of Landscapes (2) Oil on canvas, 44 x 58 cm With frame 58 x 71 cm

Neapolitan School of the 17th Century Battle scenes between Christians and Turks (2) Oil on canvas, 52 x 71 cm Framed, 61 x 80 cm One genre that met with wide acclaim in seventeenth-century Neapolitan painting and flattering success among collectors was that of battle. The Parthenopean nobility loved to adorn the walls of their salons with battles depicting single acts of heroism or complex combats that exalted patriotism and warlike prowess, virtues with which members of the wealthy aristocracy of the time liked to identify. The Church, in the Neapolitan area, was also at the forefront of commissions, commissioning artists to depict the spectacular triumphs of Christendom over the infidels, such as the memorable naval battle of Lepanto in 1571, which marked a historical turning point with the great victory over the Turks, becoming a repeated iconographic motif imbued with devotional value, replicated several times through the interest of the Dominican order, which was very devoted to Our Lady of the Rosary, who benevolently followed earthly events from above in heaven. Other themes dear to the Church within the genre were drawn from the Old and New Testaments, such as Constantine's Victory at the Milvian Bridge or St. James at the Battle of Clodius. Among the leading Neapolitan artists of that period, several specialized in battle scenes: these include Francesco Graziani, known as Ciccio Napoletano, a battler active between Naples and Rome in the second half of the 17th century; Andrea De Lione, who lived in Naples from 1610 to 1685, a versatile narrator of battles without heroes, of horsemen assaulting or retreating, and of profane scenes immersed in a wild and primordial, yet already classicized, nature; and Carlo Coppola. The latter was active for more than twenty years, from 1640 to 1665, and his catalog, which is interesting because it bears witness to a particular historical moment and the tastes of private patrons, has yet to be defined, although many of his works are initialed. It is precisely to Coppola's corpus that these two paintings could come close: with the production of the Neapolitan battler the two paintings seem to share the smoky colors, the accentuated chiaroscuro and the marked dynamism of the scenes. Moreover, it is necessary to mention how that of the battle between Christians and Turks was an absolutely central theme in Coppola's pictorial production. Also close to the manner of the two paintings analyzed here is the production of one of Coppola's most celebrated pupils, Giovanni Luigi Rocco...