Ars Antiqua Art

Aldo Conti (1890 - 1988) Porta Venezia Drawing in charcoal, pastel and white lead on cardboard, 29 x 38 cm Signed and Titled Lower Right The item is in good condition

L. Carpanetti, 19th century Corso Vittorio Emanuele Watercolor on paper, 20 x 10 cm Signed lower right

Arch. Ambrose Seveso, 19th Century Tombs of the Cathedral, 1860 Watercolor on cardboard, 23.5 x 33.5 cm Signed lower right On the reverse side stamp and inscription The item i...

Frederick T. Sibley (1837-1912) Winter scene in North Wales Pastel on board, 122.5 x 81.5 cm With frame 151.5 x 111 cm Signed lower left "FT Sibley 1893" The work under consider...

Peter Mequignon (1768-1826), 1794 Portrait of Carlo Gozzi Oil on panel, 15 cm x13 Base cm 27 x 18 Dated and signed "P. Mequignon 1794" The protagonist portrayed, identified by ...

Martino Altomonte (Naples, 1657 - Vienna, 1745), attr. Saint Ursula in Glory Oil on canvas, 135 x 88 cm The earliest records of St. Ursula's life date back to the 9th century, wh...

Antonio Concioli (Pergola, 1739 - Rome, 1820), 1775 Allegory of Charity Oil on canvas, 61 x 46.5 cm Framed, 80 x 68 cm Critical Record Prof. Giuseppe Sava The painting depicts t...

Giuseppe Pessina (Milan, 1893 - there, 1967) Plain landscape Oil on canvas, signed, 70 x 100 cm With frame, cm 94 x 123 Born Dec. 16, Pessina was Milanese by birth and education,...

Piero Leidi (Brescia, 1892 - Bedizzole, 1976) Mountain glimpse with Ponte di Legno Tempera on cardboard, 23 x 17 cm Signed lower right "P.Leidi"; dated 1943 and inscribed on the ...

Giuseppe Pessina (Milan, 1893 - there, 1967) Hillside Landscape Oil on canvas, signed, 70 x 100 cm With frame, cm 94 x 123 Born Dec. 16, Pessina was Milanese by birth and educati...

Rafael Senet y Pérez (Seville 1856 - Madrid 1926) Venice, Doges Palace watercolor on cardboard, 35 x 50 cm Signed lower left: Rafael Pérez y Senet The work, a view of the Doge's ...

Enea Salmeggia known as Talpino (Bergamo, 1565 - 1626), second decade of the 17th century Ecce homo Oil on canvas, 84 x 61 cm Framed, 103 x 77 cm The work presented here depicts ...

Carlo Bonomi (Turbigo, 1880-1961) Flock of sheep Oil on canvas, 32 x 63 Framed, 51 x 82 cm Born in Turbigo in the Ticino Valley, Carlo Bonomi attended the Brera Academy of Fine A...

Francesco Gandolfi (Chiavari, 1824 - Genoa, 1873) Pastoral Idyll, 1855 Oil on canvas, 138 x 84 cm With frame 152 x 98 cm Bibliography: Orlando Grosso, Francesco Gandolfi, S.E.A.I...

Francesco Monti, known as Brescianino delle Battaglie (Brescia, 1646 - Piacenza, 1703) Battle scene Oil on canvas, 90 x 117.5 cm Framed 112 x 139.5 cm Francesco Monti, better kn...

Matteo Ghidoni (1626-1689) Four pythons (4) Oil on canvas, 26 x 18 cm Framed, 40 x 32 cm The seventeenth century is a century characterized by several crisis factors: the famines...

Circle of Domenico Piola (Genoa, 1627 - Genoa, April 8, 1703) Madonna and Child with St. Dominic Oil on canvas, 76.5 x 63.5 cm With frame 95 x 83 cm This beautiful 17th-century ...

Pietro Della Valle (Livorno, 1819 - Florence, 1880) Landscape with shepherdesses and fisherman, 1846 Oil on canvas, 34 x 50 cm Framed, 64 x 69 cm Pietro Della Valle (Leghorn 181...

Francesco Zucco (Bergamo, c. 1570 - Bergamo, May 3, 1627) Crucifixion with saints Oil on canvas, 76 x 60 cm With frame 95 x 79 cm Critical Record Professor Giuseppe Sava The cru...

Scope of Hendrik Frans van Lint, (Antwerp, 1684 - Rome, 1763) City view with river, boats and bridge in the background Oil on panel, 14 x 20.5 cm Framed, 36 x 47 cm The Flemish H...

Francesco Montelatici called Cecco Bravo (Florence, November 15, 1601 - Innsbruck, December 1661), attr. Dressing of a knight before battle Oil on slate, 48 x 47 cm Framed, 60 x 5...

Antonio Vallone (active in Naples in the 20th century) Portrait of young man with red scarf Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 30.3 cm Framed, 52 x 42 cm Signed lower left: A. Vallone The cu...

Circle of Giovan Battista Piazzetta (1683-1754), 18th century Christ the Savior Mundi Oil on canvas, 81 x 64 cm Framed, 90 x 72 cm This painting is configured within the eighteen...

Cyrus Ferri (Rome, 1634 - 1689) The Expulsion of Hagar Oil on canvas, 69 x 58.5 cm Framed, 81 x 70 cm The subject of the work belongs to the Old Testament stories: Hagar was the ...

Maximilian Pfeiler (attivo dal 1683 al 1721 ca) Natura morta con anguria e Natura morta con uva e fichi (2) Olio su tela, cm 62 x 76 Con cornice, cm 79 x 92 La coppia di nature mort...

Giacomo Francesco Cipper, called the Todeschini (Feldkirch, 1664 - Milan, 1736) The fishmonger Oil on canvas, 64 x 83 cm - Framed, 85 x 101 cm The crisp harbor air that saturates ...

Domenico Olivero (Turin, August 1, 1679 - January 13, 1755) Game of bowls Oil on canvas, 43 x 65 cm With frame, 54.5 x 76 Expert opinion Prof. Alberto Crispo The painting shown here depicts peasants playing bowls near a farmhouse, while one of them offers sweets to a little girl. The canvas, in my opinion, can be traced back to the hand of Pietro Domenico Olivero (Turin, August 1, 1679 - January 13, 1755), as revealed by comparisons with other works by the artist, such as the Peasants' Feast already at the Gilberto Zabert Gallery in Turin, where we find an entirely similar layout, with the figures crowded around the building, placed on the left, and some household goods piled up on the right, including a copper cauldron almost identical to the one sketched in our painting. But see also other similar subjects painted by the Turin-based artist, such as the Game of Bowls already at the Cantore Gallery in Modena or the other version on the Genoese market in 2019, which, although radically different compositionally, confirm the painter's interest in playful themes and manifest the same ways in delineating characters, with synthetic and robust brushstrokes. The artist was born in Turin, in the parish of St. Thomas, on August 1, 1679 to Giovanna and Francesco, a carver by profession. He trained at the workshop of the painter and architect Melchiorre Baldassarre Bianco. He was esteemed by Victor Amadeus II of Savoy, who commissioned paintings for the Venaria Reale (1714), the Royal Palace of Turin (1716), and Rivoli Castle (1724), as well as by his ministers Pietro Mellarède and Carlo Vincenzo Ferrero di Roasio marquis of Ormea whose collections counted many of the painter's works. His success on the Turin art scene earned him election as prior of the Accademia di San Luca in Turin (1726). In 1731 he painted the eleven canvases with Stories of Franciscan Saints in the sacristy of the church of St. Thomas in Turin, while in 1734 he made the Marriage at Cana for the sanctuary of Oropa. The Savoy commissions continued with the ten canvases executed for the castle of Agliè (1737), the decoration of the third room of the New Archives in the Royal Palace of Turin (1739-41), and the thirty or so works for the hunting lodge at Stupinigi (1748-51). The painter also measured himself in designing sets for the Teatro Regio in Turin (1745-46). He made his will on November 15, 1754, and died in his hometown on January 13, 1755. Olivero's genre scenes, such as the one commented on here, reveal a focus on Flemish painting, particularly by David Teniers the Younger, Peter Mauritz Bolckman, Theodor Helmbreker, and Cornelis de Wael, as well as Roman bamboozlers such as Pieter van Laer, Michelangelo Cerquozzi, and Jan Miel...

Giovanni Coli (San Quirico, 1636 - Lucca, 1681), Filippo Gherardi (Lucca, 1643- 1704) Assunzione della Vergine Olio su tela, cm 95 x 70 Con cornice cm 111 x 85 La tela in esame è...

Giovanni Stanchi (Rome, 1608 - 1675) and Girolamo Pesci ( Rome 1679 - 1759) Immaculate Madonna within floral garland Oil on canvas, cm 95 x 72 Frame, cm 106 x 83 Expert opinion o...

Antonio Francesco Peruzzini (Ancona, 1643/1646 - Milan, 1724) Rural landscape with river and village center Rural landscape with river and tower (2) Oil on canvas, cm 108 x 62 Expert opinion Prof. Emilio Negro Recognizable in the present pair of paintings is the hand of what Mina Gregori called "the most original and path-breaking landscape painter to emerge in the late seventeenth century," namely Antonio Francesco Peruzzini. Finally identified by Arslan in 1959 as such a "Perugino," author of a St. Sebastian in a private Milanese collection, Peruzzini has in recent times been reevaluated from his former qualification as a mere subordinate of Lissandrino (Alessandro Magnasco), in comparison with whom he turns out to be an excellent coadjutor and original landscape painter. A distant mountainous horizon, of frozen vigor, is proposed in both canvases interspersed with a spindly tree in the background that screws swirlingly to the sky. The anti-academicism and nonconformism that characterized Peruzzini's entire career appear evident here and justify in retrospect his choice of such figurative collaborators as Magnasco and Sebastiano Ricci...

Angela Maria Pittetti known as Palanca (Palancato, 1690 - Turin, 1763) Hunting rest Camp scene (2) Oil on canvas, 85 x 66 cm - with frame 90 x 71 x 4 cm A work of Piedmontese sco...

Attr. to Karel Breydel, known as the Knight of Antwerp (1678 - 1733) Battle with knights and landscape in the background Oil on canvas, cm 44.5 X 36.7 Frame 52.5 x 45 cm The pain...

Luca Cattapane (Cremona, 1597-1620), attr. Adoration of the Shepherds Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm - with frame 129 x 101 cm Ascribed to the Lombard school of the late 16th century,...