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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
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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
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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
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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
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...
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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...
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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...
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Antique Mid-17th Century Greek Paintings
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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
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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
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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
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Canvas
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
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
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
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Canvas
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
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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
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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...
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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
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Paper
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, ...
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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...
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Antique Late 18th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
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
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Canvas
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
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Canvas
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
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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
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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...
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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
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Canvas
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...
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Antique Early 17th Century Paintings
Materials
Glass
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
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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
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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
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Canvas
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...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
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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...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
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 ...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
18th Century Almsgiver Plate with Saint Brass
Located in Milan, IT
18th century
Almsgiver plate with saint
Brass, 46 cm diameter
The alms dish, properly called "alms dish", is a container usually decorated in the shape ...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Decorative Art
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Brass
17th Century Rest on the flight to Egypt Emilian School Painting Oil on panel
By Parmigianino
Located in Milan, IT
17th century, Emilian school, Pamigianino painter
Rest on the flight to Egypt
Oil on panel, 46 x 39 cm - with frame 55.5 x 48.5 cm
The wor...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
17th Century Virgin of the Assumption Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
17th century
Virgin of the Assumption
Oil on canvas, 93 x 81 cm
Frame, 110 x 97 cm
The present Assumption of the Virgin welcomes an innova...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
17th-18th Century View of the Temple of Minerva Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Painter active in Rome in the 18th-19th century.
View of the temple of Minerva Medica
Oil on canvas, 65 x 78 cm - with frame 71.5 x 85 cm
The painting bears a traditional attribution to François Marius Granet (Aix-en-Provence, 1775 - 1849). The painter was a pupil of David but from 1802 to 1819 he lived in Rome, as evidenced by a series of paintings depicting views of the city and especially of the Roman countryside (Ponte San Rocco in Tivoli, 1810-20, MoMA, New York), and then return there between 1825 and 1830. In the Eternal City Granet devoted himself to landscape painting, inspired by the landscape painting of Gaspard Dughet and Van Lint...
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Antique Late 17th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
19th Century Head of St. Peter Painting Oil on Canvas by Follower of Piazzetta
By Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Located in Milan, IT
Follower of Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta (Venice, 1682 - there, 1754)
Head of St. Peter
Oil on canvas applied on cardboard, 36.5 x 34.5 cm
With frame 42.5 x 41 cm
The claves Regni Coelorum, an essential Petrine attribute, shyly peek out in this painting, with the sole purpose of allowing the character to be recognized. The wholeness of attention is indeed conveyed to the Saint, from aching humanity and divine inspiration. Pietro is rendered with a liquid epidermis, illuminated by a pearly light that slips and drips to define the overbearing nose, cheekbones and browbone; while the vitreous humor of the eye turns bright to the sky, to investigate the highest wills of the divine mystery.
The portrait, rendered here in intense monochrome, denounces the direct dependence of the present artist on the suggestions of Giambattista (Valentino) Piazzetta, one of the greatest among the eighteenth-century Venetian masters. Following an immature apprenticeship in the field of wood carving with his father Jacopo, a sculptor from Pederobba, in the Treviso area, Piazzetta retired to the workshop of Antonio Molinari...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper
17th Century Christ in Chains Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
17th century
Christ in chains
Oil on canvas, 95 x 71 cm
Frame 110 x 84 cm
The figurative tradition representing Christ with chained hands can be traced back to the early Middle Ages, when an iconography of His pains spread widely. The need to translate the Passion into images aimed to raise awareness of the forgiveness that has occurred for all men, consequent to the Crucifixion.
This painting depicts the moment before the audience before Pilate. Christ has not yet been cruelly mocked by the soldiers, despite the fact that he is already wearing the crown of thorns and the purple...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
19th Century Portrait of a Gentleman Painting Oil on Canvas Lombard School
Located in Milan, IT
19th century, Lombard school
Portrait of a Gentleman
Oil on canvas, 92 x 71 cm
With frame 107 x 87 cm
The elegant portrait in question depicts a carefully dressed gentle...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
17th Century Putto with Rose Painting Oil on Canvas Emilian School
Located in Milan, IT
Emilian school, 17th century
Putto with rose
Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 32 cm - with frame 45 x 32.5 cm
The figure of the putto, when equipped with specific attributes, lends it...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
19th Century View from the Spiers of the Duomo Painting Watercolor on Paper
Located in Milan, IT
Nineteenth century
View from the spiers of the Milan Cathedral
Watercolor on paper, 43 x 30 cm
The watercolor in question depicts some ladies and gentlemen intent on enjoyi...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
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Paper
19th Century Still Life with Fruits Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Nineteenth century.
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 o...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
17th Century St. John Baptist Florentine School Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Florentine school, 17th century
St. John Baptist
Oil on canvas, diameter cm 20 - with frame diameter 30
In this small round-format canvas, St. J...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
20th Century Spanish Party Painting Oil on Canvas by Riccardo Pellegrini
By Pellegrini
Located in Milan, IT
Riccardo Pellegrini (Milan 1863 - Crescenzago 1934)
Spanish party before the bullfight
Oil on canvas, 29 x 39 - with frame, 45 x 55 cm
The painting, given the signature, is the ...
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20th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
18th Century Pair of Inlays Various Types of Wood
Located in Milan, IT
Central-northern Italy, 18th century.
Pair of inlays.
(2) Various types of wood, briar, 25 x 38.5 cm.
Frame, 25 x 38 cm.
Very rare and meticu...
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Antique 18th Century Italian Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
19th Century View of the Naviglio with the Duomo Painting Tempera on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Giuseppe Riva (Ivrea, 1834 - 1916).
View of the Naviglio with the Duomo.
Tempera on canvas, 49.5 x 69.5 cm.
Signed lower left "Riva G."
This cit...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
17th Century Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
17th century
Mystical marriage of Saint Catherine
Measures: Oil on canvas, 98 x 81 cm - with frame 119 x 102 cm
The scene represents the mystical marriage between Catherine of A...
Category
Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
20th Century Venice Painting Tempera on Canvas by Armando Santi
Located in Milan, IT
Armando Santi (1925 - 2015)
Venice
Tempera on canvas, 87 x 77 cm
Frame 105.5 x 95.5 cm
Signed lower left: A. Santi
"A pulsating, incisive, dynamic painting, sometime...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
17th Century Penitent Magdalene Painting Tempera on Parchment by Genovese
By Giovanni Battista Castello
Located in Milan, IT
Giovanni Battista Castello, known as "Il Genovese" (1547-1637)
Penitent Magdalene
Tempera on parchment, 21 x 17 cm
Frame 26 x 22 cm
The precious tempera painting on parchment is to be referred to the hand of the painter Giovanni Battista Castello (1547-1637), called “il Genovese” to distinguish him from the homonymous contemporary, architect and painter, called “il Bergamasco”. Older brother of Bernardo, a famous painter of late Ligurian Mannerism, he began his activity in the field of religious goldsmithing, to which he soon joined the art of miniature, an art to which he ended up dedicating himself completely and with greater satisfaction, bringing it back to a success and to a disclosure that he had not known since the Middle Ages and which now found incentive and justification in the spiritual and cultural climate of the Counter-Reformation.
In the sources he is cited as self-taught; However, his assiduous frequentation of Luca Cambiaso...
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Antique 17th Century Italian Paintings
Materials
Parchment Paper
20th Century Piazzetta San MarCo Painting Watercolor on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
Italian painter, 20th century
Piazzetta San Marco
Watercolor on canvas, 68 x 51 cm
With frame, 88 x 62 cm
Signed lower left and right Zi (?) Li
The painting portrays Palazzo...
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20th Century Italian Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
17th Century Roman Landscape Painting Oil on Canvas by Bloemen
Located in Milan, IT
Workshop of Jan Frans van Bloemen (Antwerp, 1622 - Rome, 1749)
Lazio landscape
Oil on canvas, 48.5 x 64.5 cm
The painting, to be considered belonging to the vast production...
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Antique Late 17th Century Belgian Paintings
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Canvas
19th Century Market Scene Painting Oil on Copper
Located in Milan, IT
Circle of Abraham van Strij (Holland, 1753 - 1826)
Market scene
Oil on copper, 45 x 36
With frame 60 x 50 cm
The lively port everyday life that transpires from this pain...
Category
Antique 19th Century Dutch Paintings
Materials
Copper
19th Century Winter Scene in North Wales Painting Pastel on Wood by Sibley
Located in Milan, IT
Frederick T. Sibley (1837-1912)
Winter scene in North Wales
Measures: Pastel on wood, 122.5 x 81.5 cm
Frame 151.5 x 111 cm
Signed lower left...
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Antique Late 19th Century English Paintings
Materials
Wood
18th Century Scene with Spinner Piedmontese school Painting Oil on Canvas
Located in Milan, IT
18th century, Piedmontese, School
Scene with spinner
Measures: Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm
Frame 70 x 80 cm.
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Antique 18th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
