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German ceroplast from the 17th century, Bust of a woman
Located in Milan, IT
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, ...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Other Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
18th century, French School, Gallant scenes
Located in Milan, IT
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...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Wood
Roman school, second half of the 17th century, Composition with lemons and small dog
Located in Milan, IT
Roman school, second half of the 17th century
Composition with lemons and small dog
Oil on canvas, 97.5 x 74.5 cm
Framed, 120 x 95 cm
The work we describe here can be framed in t...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mantuan school, 18th century, Madonna suckling the Child
Located in Milan, IT
Mantuan school, 18th century
Madonna suckling the Child
Oil on panel, 27.5x22 cm
The softly collected and intimate dimension suggested by the present painting underscores the cert...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Wood
Emilian school of the 17th century, four evangelists
Located in Milan, IT
Scuola emiliana, XVII secolo
Evangelists
(4) oval oil on copper, 9 x 11.5 cm
Framed, 12.5 x 15 cm
The four small copper ovals presented here depict the four evangelists Mark, Mat...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Copper
18th century, Russian School, Icon depicting the relics of St. Spyridon
Located in Milan, IT
18th Century, Russian School
Icon depicting the relics of St. Spiridon of Trimiton preserved in the temple of Kerkyra
Tempera on panel, 26.5 x 19 cm
Applied on gilt wood panel, c...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Russian Other Paintings
Materials
Wood
15th century, Florence, Madonna and Child
Located in Milan, IT
15th century, Florence
Madonna and Child
Painted stucco, 29 x 14 cm
This stucco Madonna of the 15th-century Florentine school exudes a gentleness and sacredness that is entirely c...
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Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Other Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stucco
French school, early sec. XX, Greyhounds
Located in Milan, IT
French school, early sec. XX
Greyhounds
Bronze, 14 x 19 x 11 cm
Category
Early 20th Century French Other Animal Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Roman school, 17th century, Madonna and Child
Located in Milan, IT
Roman School, 17th century
Madonna and Child
Oil on copper, 15 x 11 cm
Framed, 26 x 22 cm
The small copper on display here depicts the Madonna and Child against a dark background...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Copper
Cerchia di Natale Schiavoni (Chioggia, 1777 - Venice, 1858), The Letter
By Andrea Schiavone
Located in Milan, IT
Cerchia di Natale Schiavoni (Chioggia, 1777 - Venice, 1858)
The Letter
Oil on copper, 48 x 38 cm
Framed, 67.5 x 59 cm
Natale Schiavoni (Chioggia, April 25, 1777 - Venice, April 1...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Circle of David Teniers (Antwerp, 1610 - Brussels, 1690), Interior with figures
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in Milan, IT
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...
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Antique 17th Century Dutch Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th century, recco follower, (Naples, 1634- Alicante, 1695), Still Life
By Chiaia and Napolitano
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, follower of Giuseppe Recco (Naples,1634- Alicante,1695)
Still life of fish, squid, oysters and corals on the beach
Oil on canvas, 57.5 x 117 cm
Framed, cm
On the b...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Cretan Dalmatian School, 17th century, Marriage of St. Catherine
By Greco
Located in Milan, IT
Cretan Dalmatian school, 17th century
Marriage of St. Catherine
Oil on panel, 52 x 60 cm
Framed, 40 x 49 cm
The oil on panel painting we describe here shows the Mystical Marriage...
Category
Antique Mid-17th Century Greek Paintings
Materials
Wood
18th 18th Century two mirrors with architectural shape frames
Located in Milan, IT
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...
Category
Antique 18th Century Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
17th century, from Francesco Albani, The Rape of Europa
By Francesco Albani
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, by Francesco Albani (1578-1660)
The Rape of Europa
Oil on panel, 41 x 51 cm
Framed, 61 x 71 cm
One of the most famous abduction episodes narrated by Ovid in the Met...
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Antique 17th Century Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th-19th century, French school, the soap bubbles
Located in Milan, IT
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...
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Antique 19th Century Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th century, pair of landscapes
Located in Milan, IT
19thC
Pair of Landscapes
(2) Oil on canvas, 44 x 58 cm
With frame 58 x 71 cm
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Neapolitan school, 17th century, battle scenes
Located in Milan, IT
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...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Wooden showcase with gilt profiling, Rome, 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Rome, 18th century
Storefront
Wood with gilt wood profiles and glass, 116 x 110 x 40 cm
The item is in good condition
Category
Antique 18th Century Vitrines
Materials
Glass, Wood
painting depicting Allegory of Italy, Oil on canvas, 19th century
Located in Milan, IT
19thC
Allegory of Italy
Oil on canvas 64 x 40
Framed, 73 x 50 cm
During the 19th century, the fervent Italian cultural climate dominated by the aspiration for an Italy finally un...
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Antique 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Adoration of the Magi in polychrome terracotta, 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
XVII Century
Adoration of the Magi
Polychrome terracotta, 24 x 18 cm
The present relief, made of terracotta that retains the original polychromy, depicts the famous episode in the...
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Antique 17th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Pottery
Quattro fregi con teste di putto e stemmi in Legno, XVII secolo
Located in Milan, IT
XVII secolo
Quattro fregi con teste di putto e stemmi
(4) Legno scolpito, alt. cm 32
L'oggetto è in buono stato di conservazione
Category
Antique 17th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Scuola emiliana, XVII secolo, Rebecca al pozzo
Located in Milan, IT
Scuola emiliana, XVII secolo
Rebecca al pozzo
Olio su tela, cm 76 x 58
Giunta la morte della consorte Sara, Abramo decide di cercare moglie al figlio Isacco. Pertanto, manda il suo ...
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Antique 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Copper
Sculpture depicting Dante and Beatrice, Alabaster, 20th century
Located in Milan, IT
Dante and Beatrice
Alabaster, 33 x 20 x 36 cm
Early 20th century
The present alabaster relief, of which great technical skill is evident, imitates the pages of a book, On the two...
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
Venetian school, Tobias and Sara in Nineveh, oil on canvas, 16th century
Located in Milan, IT
Venetian School, second half of the 16th century
Tobiah and Sarah led to Nineveh by the archangel Azariah
Oil on canvas, 48 x 56 cm - Framed, 58 x 72 cm
The present canvas, made w...
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Antique 16th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
piemontese mirror, Louis XVI, Gilded wood
Located in Milan, IT
Piedmont, Louis XVI
Mirror with selvage
Carved and gilded wood, 164 x 104 cm
Light, 90 x 70 cm
The Louis XVI mirror under consideration, clearly manufactured in Piedmont, was mad...
Category
Antique 18th Century Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood
Pair of candle-bearing angels, Carved and gilded wood, 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
18th 18th Century
Pair of candle-bearing angels
Carved and gilded wood, 28 x 71 cm
The item is in good condition
Category
Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Giltwood
Oil on canvas Jesus child within garland of flowers 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Lombard School, 17th century
Christ child with globe within garland of flowers
Oil on canvas, 72 x 61 cm
Framed 90, 5 x 80
The present painting, framed by a sumptuous antique fr...
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Antique 18th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Oil painting on canvas depicting Still life Roman school of the 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Roman School, 17th century
Still Life
Oil on canvas, 79 x 107 cm
Framed, 93 x 121 cm
The work under scrutiny, depicting a majestic still life of flowers, is ascribed to the 17th...
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Antique 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th century Oil on canvas depicting the Rape of Proserpine
Located in Milan, IT
Sienese school of the 17th century
The rat of Proserpina
Oil on canvas, 188 x 123 cm
Depicted at the climax of the action, at the height of drama, is the scene of the Rape of Pros...
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Antique 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
16th century Madonna and Child Oil on canvas with gold background
Located in Milan, IT
XVII Century
Madonna and Child
Oil on canvas, 116 x 83 cm
The canvas under consideration depicts the Icon of the Most Holy Virgin Consoled, or more correctly Consoler of the Affl...
Category
Antique 17th Century Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Portrait of Louis XV of France and Queen Consort Pastel on Paper
Located in Milan, IT
18th century, French School. Portrait of Louis XV of France and queen consort Maria Leszczynska
(2) Pastel on paper, 47 x 60 cm
With frame 5...
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Antique 18th Century French Louis XV Paintings
Materials
Paper
Lion Marble sculpture from the 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
XVII Century
Lion
Marble, 30 x 43 x 25
The object under consideration is configured as a marble sculpture referable to the 17th century, characterized by a strong, visceral langua...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Animal Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Three Louis XVI 18th Century gilded wood wall mirrors
Located in Milan, IT
18th century, Louis XVI
Wall cartoons
(3) Carved and gilded wood, 60 x 40 cm - 35 x 36 cm
Light, 30 x 26 cm - 14 x 13 cm
The three pieces of furniture in question represent splen...
Category
Antique 18th Century Louis XVI Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Wood
17th Century Rest on The Flight to Egypt Emilian school Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Emilian school
Rest on the flight to Egypt
Oil on canvas, 42 x 33 cm
Frame 65 x 55 cm
The present Holy Family, ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
River landscape of late 18th century - early 19th century
Located in Milan, IT
Late 18th - early 19th century
River Landscape
Oil on canvas, 64 x 96 cm - with frame 77 x 10 cm
The canvas in question is an example of Vedutist painting at the turn of the 18th an...
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Pair of angels in gilded wood Rome 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Rome, 17th century
Pair of angels
Gilded wood, cm h 92 - Base, cm 25 x 40
The pair of putti examined is a masterpiece of the Roman Baroque period, a period of pomp and opulence w...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Terracotta sculpture with bust of togatus Adolfo Laurenti
Located in Milan, IT
Adolfo Laurenti (Monte Porzio Catone, April 23, 1858 - Rome, 1944)
Bust of togatus
Terracotta, 21 x 18 x 12 cm
Adolfo Laurenti was born on April 23, 1858, in Monte Porzio (since 1...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
18th Century Lying Female Figure Painting by Giovanni Domenico Molinari
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793)
Lying Female figure
Oil on canvas, cm 46 x. 31 - With frame, cm 56 x 42
The present painting is connected by style and treated subject, in this case a young girl lying in an idyllic landscape, to the production of small pictures of pastoral subject of the Piedmontese painter Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793).
Molinare was born in Caresana (Vercelli) on 19 July 1721 but after losing both his parents he moved to Turin. Here he became, from 1736, a pupil of the Academy of Drawing founded by the painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont (Turin, 4 July 1694 - Turin, 21 June 1766) where he remained as a pensioner until December 1755. Molinari was immediately engaged in the translation of the master’s sketches on cardboard used for the Regia manufacture of tapestries. His early success on the Turin art scene is confirmed by the fact that he joined the Compagnia di San Luca in 1756.
In 1751 he married Margherita Peiroleri, whose brothers Pietro (engraver) and Nicolò (painter) also attended the school. Remained widower count two other marriages first with Lucrezia Elisabetta Burzio and then in 1770 with Domenica Maria Ferrero.
On the death of the master in 1766 Molinari, considered by his contemporaries to be the most faithful interpreter of the master and for his elegant and Arcadian style, which clearly interprets the aesthetic taste of the court, was called to finish the works that remained unfinished, such as the altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Moncalieri depicting the Assumption venerated by Blessed Bernard of Baden and Saint Anthony. Molinari was also well praised by critics and Abbot Lanzi highlighted the quality of the production of historical and mythological subject for the rigorous post-marattesco classicism.
In Turin he worked for Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy as a portrait painter, executing for him eleven canvases (between 1774 and 1775), but, since 1745, he also supplied tapestry cartoons to the local Fabbrica, of which, in 1766, he became director.
The production of paintings of sacred subjects is also lively, especially used in the decoration of the churches of the capital as the Assumption for the Hotel of Virtue and San Pietro Regalado and San Benedetto il Moro for Santa Maria degli Angeli ( Torino) He also painted tempera and oil cartoons for the same church, on the occasion of the beatification of Pacifico da San Severino (1787) and, for that of San Francesco di Paola, when Gaspare de Bono...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Gentleman’s Portrait Painting by English School
Located in Milan, IT
19th century, English School
Gentleman’s portrait
Oil on canvas, cm 76,5 x 64
The painting in question portrays a gentleman of the second h...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Madonna and Child with Souls in Purgatory Papier-Mache Sculpture
Located in Milan, IT
First half of the 19th century
Madonna and Child with souls in Purgatory
Lacquered and gilded papier-mache with polychrome wooden base
cm 96.5 x 37.5 x 28
"At that time I asked the Lord Jesus: 'For whom do I still have to pray?'. Jesus answered me that the following night he would make me known for whom I had to pray. I saw the Custodian Angel, who ordered me to follow him. At a moment I found myself in a foggy place, invaded by fire and, in it, a huge crowd of suffering souls. These souls pray with great fervour, but without effectiveness for themselves: only we can help them. The flames that burned them, they did not touch me. My Guardian Angel did not abandon me for a moment. And I asked those souls what their greatest torment was. And they unanimously answered me that their greatest torment is the ardent desire of God. I read the Madonna who visited the souls of Purgatory. The souls call Mary 'Star of the Sea'. She brings them refreshment ".
(Diary of Sister Faustina Kowalska p. 11)
A Polish religious, Saint Faustina Kowalska (1905-1938) reinterpreted in the pages of her testimony the ancient role of the Virgin as savior and supporter of the souls of Purgatory. The Second Vatican Ecumenical Council established that, assumed into Heaven, the Mother of God should operate a continuous intercession in favor of those children waiting for Paradise who were in the place, quoted for the first time by Pope Gregory the Great...
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Antique Early 19th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paper
17th Century Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine Oli on Canvas Roman School
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Roman School
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria
Oil on canvas, 32 x 23 cm
Frame cm 45 x 36
The saint is depicted in front of the Virgin holding the Child portrayed with the wedding ring in his hand, enriched with a precious stone. According to the Golden Legend, Catherine of Alexandria was a very beautiful young woman, the only daughter of the king of Costa, who had refused to marry the emperor Maxentius because she was a Christian and devoted to Christ. Maxentius, unable to convince her to sacrifice to idols, had sent to call the wisest men and fifty philosophers and orators who presented themselves and tried to divert her from faith in Christ. Catherine, however, played so well that she was able to convert them, arousing the anger of the emperor who condemned them to the stake. Catherine, however, who had criticized Maxentius for the new persecutions against the Christians, was sentenced to prison without food. Abandoned for twelve days, she was fed by a dove sent by God. Maxentius then decided to execute her with the torture of the toothed wheel become her attribute iconographic; but by divine intervention this broke and the young was saved. Finally, she was beheaded and milk flowed from her neck. Catherine’s princely status is witnessed here by her sumptuous dress. The iconography of the mystical marriage was born in the fifteenth century, probably because the traditional iconographic attribute, the wheel, was sometimes so small as to look like a ring, and refers to a vision that will always remain present in the mind and heart of the saint. In Heaven she appeared to her, among the Angels and Saints, Christ the Child, in the arms of the Virgin. He took a precious ring that the Virgin Mary handed to her and put it in her finger, saying "I, your Creator and Saviour, take you in marriage; confident that you will keep you pure until you celebrate your eternal wedding with me, in Paradise" When Catherine was laughing, she found in her finger the same ring that she had seen and had in Heaven, and she considered herself forever the bride of Christ.
In this extraordinary episode we can see the heart of Catherine’s religious sense, and of all her spirituality. For her, Christ is like the bridegroom, with whom there is a relationship of intimacy, communion and fidelity; he is the beloved, whom she loves above all...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Early 20th Century Gallant Scene with Citadel White and Green Marble Sculpture
Located in Milan, IT
Early 20th century
Gallant scene with citadel
White marble and green marble from the Alps, cm 59 x 48 x 29
Signed on the back "G. Abell"
The refined marble group describes the...
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Early 20th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Marble
17th Century Angelica and Medoro Painted Oil on Canvas Roman School
Located in Milan, IT
Roman School, 17th century
Angelica and Medoro engrave their names on the bark of a tree
Oil on canvas, 65 x 48.5 cm
The canvas depicts one of the most famous episodes of O...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Saint Joseph Oil on Canvas Attributed to Antonio Cifrondi
Located in Milan, IT
Antonio Cifrondi (1665 - 1730), Attributed
Man with stick - Saint Joseph
Measures: Oil on canvas, Cm 115 x 79 - With frame, cm 139 x 103
This canvas is, for stylistic and c...
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Antique 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
16th-17th Century Gentleman’s Portrait Oil on Canvas by Francesco Zucco
Located in Milan, IT
Francesco Zucco (circa 1575-1627)
Gentleman’s portrait
Measures: Oil on canvas, cm 120 x 140
The painting analyzed here belongs to the pictorial production of Francesco Zucc...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Live Nature Pair of Paintings Oil on Canvas Flemish School
Located in Milan, IT
Flemish School, 17th century
Live nature couple with animals
Measures: Oil on canvas, cm 25 x 35 - With frame cm 37 x 48
The pair of canvases in question depicts two excited...
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Antique 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Personification of the Day Alabaster Sculpture
By Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in Milan, IT
18th century
Personification of the Day
Alabaster, cm 11.5 x 17.5 x 5
With base cm 14.5 x 20,8 x 11.7
Il Giorno is a marble sculpture (160x150 cm) that Michelangelo mad...
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Antique 18th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
17th Century Holy Family with Bird Oil on Glass Follower of Simon Vouet
By Simon Vouet 1
Located in Milan, IT
Follower of Simon Vouet (Paris, 1590 - 1649)
The Holy Family with bird
Oil on glass, cm 20.5 x 23.5; with frame cm 27.5 x 29.5
The small painting examined, made on glass and...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Glass
First Half of the 18th Century Putti Pair of Sculptures in Gilded Wood
Located in Milan, IT
First half of the 18th century, Lombardy
Putti
(2) gilded wood, H 88 cm
The work is distinguished by the high artistic quality and the remarkable executive care, as eviden...
Category
Antique Early 18th Century Italian Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
17th Century Madonna with Child Painting Oil on Canvas Tuscan School
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Tuscan school
Madonna and Child
Oil on canvas, 31 x 21 cm
With frame, cm 37,5 x 27,5
The pearly incarnations and the thoughtful play of looks between the Virgin, turned to the Son, and Questi, warmly open to the viewer, pour out the present painting with compositional perfection. Virginal fabrics become mottled at the folds, wrapping the Madonna in a thin vitreous mantle. The pastel colors, shining on the pink robe just tightened at the waist by a gold cord, enliven the faces of the divine couple in correspondence of the cheeks, lit by an orange warmth. Even the left hand of the Virgin, composed in perfect classical pose (Botticelli, Madonna with Child, 1467, Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon), is sprinkled with warmth thanks to the immediate touch with Christ. From the nimbus of the Mother a delicate luminous disk is effused, which takes back, in the most distant rays, the colour of the hair of the Son, from the tones of the sun. The Child Jesus is represented intent in a tender gesture of invitation with the right hand, while with the other he offers a universal blessing: with his hand he retracts the index and annular palms, extending the remaining three fingers, symbol of Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
The painting welcomes and re-elaborates that typically Tuscan formalism that boasted in the rest of Italy the constant appreciation by the most up-to-date artists and collectors. Arrangement, composition and mixing of colors place the canvas in the middle between the changing mannerist and the sculptural figures of Michelangelo, essential yardstick of comparison in terms of anatomical and expressionistic rendering. In the present, silvery and pinkish powders act as three-dimensional inducers to the Child’s mentioned musculature and to the vivid folds of the clothes, expertly deposited on the lunar whiteness of the skins. While these colours recall the equally brilliantly transparent colours of Pier Francesco Foschi...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
16th Century Madonna of the Carnations Painting Oil on Canvas from Raffaello
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Milan, IT
16th century, by Raffaello Sanzio (Urbino, 1483 - Rome, 1520)
Madonna of the Carnations
Measures: Oil on canvas 38 x 30 - with frame 59 x 52.5 cm
The Madonna dei Garofani made b...
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Antique 16th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century Genre Scene Painting Oil on Canvas Attributed to Paolo Monaldi
Located in Milan, IT
Paolo Monaldi (Rome, 1710 - after 1779), attr.
Genre scene
Oil on canvas, 34 x 25 cm
With frame, 36 x 46 cm
The canvas describes a moment of rest taken from the rural world: the strings of a lute plucked by an elderly man in the foreground cheer a woman with her child and a passer-by with his mule stopped to listen. The subject is typical of Paolo Monaldi, a painter born in Rome in 1710 and a pupil of the landscape painter Paolo Anesi...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Pair of Vases Porcelain Austrian Workshop
Located in Milan, IT
19th century, Bloch workshop
Pair of vases
(2) Porcelain, cm H. 36
The two porcelain vases, in the shape of an amphora, with handles, are to be associated with the Bloch wor...
Category
Antique 19th Century Austrian Vases
Materials
Porcelain
18th Century Immaculate Madonna Terracotta Sculpture
Located in Milan, IT
18th century
Immaculate Madonna
Terracotta, 53 x 22 x 20 cm
The work examined depicts the Virgin Mary treated according to the iconography of the Immaculate Virgin
The theme of the Immaculate Conception began to appear in artistic works ever since the debate began, which saw the Franciscans and the ramifications of the Benedictine Order lined up on one side, linked to the thought of Anselmo d'Aosta and Bonaventura da Bagnoregio, and on the other the Dominicans, linked to the discussion offered by Thomas Aquinas...
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Antique 18th Century European Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Terracotta
19th Century The Betrothed Painting in Oil on Panel by Guglielmo Napoli
Located in Milan, IT
Guglielmo Napoli (Pavia, 1868 - Genoa, 1945)
The betrothed
Oil on panel, 46.6 x 68 cm
Frame 73 x 81 cm
Signed lower left "Gugl . mo Napoli Dipinse"
The work in questi...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint, Canvas
18th Century Portraits of Women Couple of Paintings in Oil on Canvas by Bertoli
Located in Milan, IT
Antonio Bertoli (active between 1829 - 1842) Portraits of women
(2) Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 31 cm
With frame 52 x 42.5 cm
Signed below A. Bertoli
The two portraits examined here are by the hand of the artist Antonio Bertoli, a painter active in Florence between 1829 - 1842. He trained at the Florentine Academy, where in 1832 he obtained the prize for the nude in drawing. At the academic exhibitions of the following years he exhibited mainly portraits, including a representation of Nicolò Macchiavelli executed in 1837. An eclectic artist, he experimented with different genres: for the Villa Puccini di Scornio in Pistoia, in 1838, he was commissioned to create a history picture, The death of Francesco Ferrucci (Pistoia, Civic Museum), inspired by an episode of the novel Siege of Florence by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi. Instead, two religious paintings date back to the 1840s: Christ chasing the merchants from the Temple and a Virgin Mary,
In the portraits analyzed Bertoli depicts two half-length women taken from a foreshortening and a frontal in close pose, characterized by very similar Mediterranean features. In the first painting the woman, taken from the front, looks directly at the viewer. The wavy hair is decorated with a colorful violet and is partially covered by a white veil...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Casket Venetian School Laquered and Gilded Wood
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Venetian School
Stipo - Casket
Lacquered and gilded wood, Measures: H. 46 cm; 50 x 31 cm
Elegant cabinet of imperious and noble presence. The leonine corbels highl...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Decorative Baskets
Materials
Wood
19th Century Pair of Desks with portraits of Petrarch and Leonardo Alabaster
Located in Milan, IT
19th century
Pair of desks with portraits of Petrarch and Leonardo
(2) Alabaster, 34 and 35 cm diam
The pair of alabaster discs features a central cameo with the effigy of Petrarch and Leonardo, probably part of a larger series that featured illustrious characters from Italian history. On the openwork frame of Petrarch there are portraits of some characters who face each other, combined for centuries, as can be seen from the shapes of the garments that span several centuries: from the thirteenth century, in which men wear long-tipped bonnets, to the fifteenth century and Sixteenth century, the two characters at the top, in the seventeenth century, with wide collars, up to the eighteenth century.
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374) embodies the figure of the humanist intellectual par excellence, entirely dedicated to the study of Latin conceived as the only form of expression worthy of a man of letters, so as to serve any form of written communication, including letters and the reflection on himself witnessed in the Secretum. A personality made more complex by obsessive perfectionism, which led him to a continuous and infinite editing of the work which he also flaunted to consider as minor and which instead ensured him an undying fame among posterity, the Canzoniere. But the only aspect fixed in the collective imagination is that of the lover who idolizes the places where his ideal love blossomed...
Category
Antique 19th Century Italian Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Alabaster
17th Century Annunciation Painting Oil on Canvas Workshop of Nuvolone
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Nuvolone workshop
Annunciation
Measures: Oil on canvas, 98.50 x 127.00 cm - with frame 144 x 115
Depicted is a canonical Annunciation which sees Mary on her knees ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
