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Pietà, devotional plaque. Bronze. Spanish School, 17th century, based on the mo
Located in Madrid, ES
Pietà, devotional plaque. Bronze. Spanish School, 17th century, based on the model of Guglielmo DELLA PORTA.
Oval-shaped devotional plaque made of bronze, featuring a ring at the t...
Category
Antique 17th Century European Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Holy Face. Oil on canvas. Spanish School, 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Holy Face. Oil on canvas. Spanish School, 16th century.
A canvas depicting a face on a light background with no other elements. Iconographically, this is what is commonly called a ...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Votive lamp. Silver in its color. Cadiz, 18th century (1767).
Located in Madrid, ES
Votive lamp. Silver in its color. Cadiz, 18th century (1767).
No hallmarks. Inscribed.
A silver-colored ceiling lamp featuring a deep lower section divided into levels by a series...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Healing of the Paralytic. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Healing of the Paralytic. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
Partially rebuilt.
A religious scene set in a prestigious interior, made of two-tone stone, depicting a ser...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Possibly Spanish school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Possibly Spanish school, 18th century.
A table niche made of carved, polychrome, and gilded wood. It features a front door with a key lock and gi...
Category
Antique 18th Century European Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Other
Raising of Lazarus with Saint Roch and two donors. Oil on panel. 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Raising of Lazarus with Saint Roch and two donors. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
Oil on panel depicting an interior scene with semicircular arches and Ionic capital...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Last Supper. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Last Supper. Oil on panel. Castilian School, 16th century.
It has faults.
An oil on panel painting depicting a figurative image against a neutral background, with a checkered tile...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Saint Anthony Reading at a City Gate. Engraving. Dürer, Albert. Later date.
By Albrecht Dürer
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Anthony Reading at a City Gate. Engraving. Dürer, Albert (Nuremberg, 1471-1528). Later print, possibly 19th century.
Signed and dated on plate.
Engraving depicting the holy...
Category
Antique 19th Century European Other Religious Items
Materials
Other
Saint Jerome. Oil on slatted panel. Surroundings of KEY, Willem. 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Jerome. Oil on slatted panel. Surroundings of KEY, Willem. 16th century.
With monogram (illegible) and dated (right ear of the saint).
Oil on oak panel showing a thin, elderl...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Devotional plaque with Saint Jerome. Bronze. Spanish school, 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional plaque with Saint Jerome. Bronze. Spanish school, 16th century.
Rectangular devotional plaque made of bronze, with a frame and a ring at the top and a figurative decorati...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Immaculate Conception. Wood, glass, silver. Portuguese school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Immaculate Conception. Carved and polychrome wood, glass, silver. Portuguese school, 18th century.
Sculpture made of wood showing a young Mary, with her hands together in front of h...
Category
Antique 18th Century European Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Three cross finials. Silver in its colour. 20th century, following 18th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Three cross finials. Silver in its colour. 20th century, following 18th century models.
Each of the three pieces features a winged angel's head as its central motif, surrounded and ...
Category
20th Century Spanish Other Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Bronze pax. 18th century
Located in Madrid, ES
BRONZE PAX.
The plaque that forms this element, formerly used in mass to give the osculus of peace with decorum, has been decorated with varied reliefs: in the lower part, vegetal sc...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Saint Stephen, Oil on Canvas, 17th Century, After Aegidius Sadeler's Engraving
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Stephen. Oil on canvas. 17th century, following Aegidius Sadeler's engraving (inspired by Jacopo Palma).
The figure of the Saint appears in the ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Other
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Paper holder bronze, 16th century.
Bronze paper holder with flat handle on the back that features a light relief decoration on the front. Under an auction of openwork elements of cle...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Christ with angel. Oil on canvas. 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Christ with angel. Oil on canvas. 18th century.
The painting depicts Christ, dressed, supported by the shoulders or back by an angel, both figures situated in an indeterminate space...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Religious Items
Materials
Other
Naveta. Silver in its colour. Salamanca, Spain, 1824- 1850.
Located in Madrid, ES
Naveta. Silver in its colour. Salamanca, Spain, 1824- 1850.
With contrast marks and text.
Silver vessel in its colour with a circular, stepped base decorated with ready mouldings, ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Last Supper. Silver-plated metal, wood. Spanish school, mid-20th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Last Supper. Silver-plated metal, wood. Spanish school, mid-20th century.
Wall painting with a silverplated metal relief depicting the Last Supper (title in the lower area), with Ch...
Category
20th Century Spanish Other Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Other
Saint Dominic. Oil on canvas. Spanish school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Dominic. Oil on canvas. Spanish school, 18th century.
It has some faults.
Oil on canvas with a horizontal layout depicting a Dominican wearing the characteristic habit of the ...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Religious Items
Materials
Other
Immaculate Conception. Oil on canvas. Colonial school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Immaculate Conception. Oil on canvas. Colonial school, 18th century.
Oil on canvas showing the Virgin Mary among angels, in a landscape and standing on a crescent moon, wearing a wh...
Category
Antique 18th Century South American Neoclassical Religious Items
Materials
Other
Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Jesus. Oil on canvas. Spanish school, 18t
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Anthony of Padua with the Infant Jesus. Oil on canvas. Spanish school, 18th century.
Oil on canvas showing Saint Anthony of Padua (Lisbon, August 15, 1195 - Padua, June 13, 12...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Religious Items
Materials
Other
Hand bell or bell, “from Malinas”. Bronze. 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Hand bell or bell, “from Malinas”. Bronze. 16th century.
Hand bell with clapper made of bronze and decorated on the outside with a slight relief. The base has, between bands, an ins...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Bronze, Other
Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus, Wood, Mechelen School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint Anthony with the Child Jesus. Wood. Mechelen School, 16th century.
Sculpture in carved wood worked, as was usual in that center, on the front because it was designed to be pla...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Crucified Christ, Sorrowful Crucifix. Carved and polychrome wood.
Located in Madrid, ES
Crucified Christ, Sorrowful Crucifix. Carved and polychrome wood. Possibly southern German school, 15th century.
Polychrome and gilded wood carving showing Christ with the Crown of Thorns, on the Cross, already deceased (eyes closed), with the usual INRI phylactery on the upper crossbar of the Latin cross, three nails (note the crossed feet) and a short, golden and polychrome purity cloth or perizonium. It is known, in German, as “Gabelkreuz” or “Gabelkruzifix” (“Sorrowful Crucifix” in Spanish) to a type of Gothic Crucified Christ that is especially expressive (prioritizing external suffering over other aspects) and that, normally, presents the cross in a of Y or ypsilon (alluding to the Tree of Life), created, apparently, thanks to the influence of the mysticism of the late 13th and early 14th centuries (Saint Brigid...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Virgin with Child. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 13th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Virgin with Child. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 13th century.
It has faults.
Polychrome wood carving that shows the Virgin sitting on a throne, with her right hand r...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Spanish Gothic Religious Items
Materials
Other
“Saint Dominic and Saint Francis”, Colonial School, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
“Saint Dominic and Saint Francis”. Polychromed terracotta. Colonial (South America) school, 18th century.
It is narrated in this piece, with a remarkable...
Category
Antique 18th Century South American Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Terracotta
Saint Aloysius de Gonzaga (dress up). Spanish school, 18th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
San Luis Gonzaga, dressing room. Polychrome wood, etc. Spanish school, 18th century.
Carving made of polychrome wood that shows, on a rectangular base, a young man without a beard, ...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Religious Items
Materials
Other
Couple of torchero angels. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th c.
Located in Madrid, ES
Couple of torchero angels. Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th century.
They have faults.
Pair of human-shaped carvings made of polychrome wood that show two angels ra...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Silver boat censer. Spain, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Silver ship. Spain, 17th century.
Naveta formed by forging, with the foot and the ends of the lid obtained by mold casting. Shaped like a symmetrical boat, it stands on a low circul...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Silver
Monstrance (temple type). Silver. Spain, 16th century with restorations.
Located in Madrid, ES
Portable temple custody. Gilded silver, glass. 16th century, possible restorations.
Custody made of gilded silver (the finish has been lost in some points) composed of a base, an ax...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Silver, Other
Mary Magdalene on her way to Marseille. Castilian school, 15th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Mary Magdalene on her way to Marseille. oil on board. Castilian school, towards the last third of the century XV. Oil on panel showing a landscape in the background with a walled city, some mountains and the shore of a watercourse (from the theme it is seen that it is the shore from sea). In the foreground and in full body, a boat with a sail appears with a circus richly dressed characters and with their respective nimbus (these decorated with geometric elements and engraved vegetables), two women and three men. Note the anecdotal detail of the fish crossing the waters under the ship. In the Golden...
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Spanish Gothic Religious Items
Materials
Other
The temptation of St Anthony. Oil on canvas. 17th c., after David Teniers II
By David Teniers the Younger
Located in Madrid, ES
Temptations of San Antonio Abad. Oil on canvas. 17th century, following the model of David Teniers II (Antwerp, 1610-Brussels, 1690).
Oil on canvas showing a figurative scene located inside a cave. To the right, you can see a cross standing, supported; to the left, a hut; and in the center of the painting appears an elderly, bearded man, leaning on a table on which there is a ceramic jug and a skull, with an open book at the foot of it. The man looks towards a woman, who points to something outside, and appears accompanied by a large frog and a series of ghostly beings or monsters dressed in brightly colored cloth and clothing.
San Antonio Abad or Antonio Magno (251-356) was a Christian monk, considered the founder of the eremitical movement. He was tempted numerous times by the devil while he was in the desert, becoming a subject frequently represented in art (as can be seen in this oil painting). He is represented in a black habit because the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of San Antonio (Hospitals) was placed under his patronage, being the color of the habits of the members of this order (the tau or Egyptian cross was also the symbol chosen by they).
David Teniers II or El Joven was a prominent Flemish painter and engraver, son of David Teniers El Viejo or I and father of David Teniers III, much appreciated at the time for his scenes of villagers and common people, his paintings of monkey painters, etc. . He dealt with the theme of the Temptations of Saint Anthony...
Category
Antique 17th Century European Baroque Paintings
Materials
Other
"Child Jesus", Wood, Spanish School, 17th Century, pedestal made later.
Located in Madrid, ES
"Child Jesus". Carved and polychrome wood. Spanish school, 17th century. Base or pedestal made later.
Christ is presented naked, with a slight contrapposto on the legs and hips that...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Other
Relief with angel head. Polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Relief with angel head. Polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th century.
Rectangular table that presents, on the front, a relief of certain depth and figurative theme. On a...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Reliefs with heads of angels. Polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th c
Located in Madrid, ES
Reliefs with heads of angels. Polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th century.
Pair of rectangular boards with a hanging ring on the back that present, on the front, two de...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Pair of Children, Polychromed Pine Wood, Spain, 18th Century and Later
Located in Madrid, ES
Couple of children. Polychrome pine wood, Century XVIII.
Pair of polychrome pine wood carvings that represent two children in an attitude of playing a musical wind instrument, both seated, with their hands towards their faces, and slightly raising one leg to add some movement to a posture that, otherwise, it would be perhaps too static. Due to their postures and attitudes, they would be part of a large and quality altarpiece, judging by the size, the details, the hair, the proportions, etc., elements in which the musical angels were not something strange. Note that those present do not have wings, calling themselves in these cases "putti" and being, in the same way, figures of habitual presence in religious environments despite having emerged from Renaissance classicism and its sources from Antiquity. The proportions of the sizes, the anatomy, the symmetry, the certain plasticism of the hair, etc. are elements that speak of an influence of Neoclassicism in these sculptures. Likewise, a certain resemblance to works from the 18th century of the Castilian school can be appreciated."
Size: 22 x 42 x 85 cms / c/peanas 37 x 37 x 180 cm. Weight is merely orientative. Bases and wooden instruments...
Category
Antique 18th Century Spanish Neoclassical Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Other
Bronze incense burner (censer). 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Censer. Bronze. XIX century.
Bronze censer with circular base and cup shape with lid of elaborate lines and simple openwork elements inspired by antique pieces. It has metallic chai...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. 16th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Niche. Carved and polychrome wood. Century XVI.
Wall niche with a rectangular front opening topped by a venerated shape finished in gold with two polychrome angel heads in the corne...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Virgin Mary (dress-up). Wood, etc. Spanish school, 17th century and later.
Located in Madrid, ES
Virgin of Dress. Carved and polychrome wood, etc. Spanish school, 17th century; later clothing.
Has damage.
Polychrome wood carving of the type of dress or dress that has a series ...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Other
Saint or Virgin to dress. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Saint or Virgin to dress. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 17th century.
It has faults.
The female figure stands (with her right leg forward) on a small polygonal base. Made of partial...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Other
Christ of Burgos. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Christ of Burgos. Wood, metal. Spanish school, 19th century.
A rectangular base serves as the base for a Latin cross with finials at the three upper ends. This has the usual “INRI” ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Other Religious Items
Materials
Metal
Saint on a bed. Polychromed wood. Flemish school, 16th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Dream of a saint. Carved and polychrome wood. Flemish school, 16th century.
Relief made of carved and polychrome wood that shows an old man with a particular headdress (reminiscent of some chaperones) lying on a bed and accompanied by two friars dressed in habits, who talk to each other. Iconographically, the figure of the old man lying on the bed (note the cushion that raises the upper part of the body, following the common use of the time) who has not died (probably) because he was not completely lying down, is reminiscent of how he was usually represented, for example, to San Antón, San Jerónimo, etc. It is not very likely that it is the subject of the Transit or Death of Saint Francis of Assisi due to the absence of the Stigmata and due to age. It would be part of a cycle of scenes in the altarpiece of a church, an accompaniment that would give the viewer more clues about the identity of those represented. Stylistically, Flemish sculpture...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Devotional plaque, Saint Bishop Bronze. Spanish school, 19th c.
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional plaque, Holy Bishop. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century.
Rectangular devotional plate with a ring at the top and smooth moldings enhancing a figurative relief. You can see a male figure with a halo, carrying a bishop's staff, and is accompanied by a book and a tiara...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Devotional plaque, San Telmo or Sanct'Elmo. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional plaque, San Telmo or Sanct'Elmo. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century.
Saint Pedro González became bishop of Palencia, later entering the Order o...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Devotional plaque, Saint Bruno. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional plaque, Saint Bruno. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century.
Rectangular devotional plate made of bronze that has a ring at the top and a frame of smooth moldings around a ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Devotional plaque, Virgin of Montserrat. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional plaque, Virgin of Montserrat and the Mountain. Bronze. Spanish school, 19th century.
Devotional plate made of bronze, with a rectangular shape, which has a washer in its ...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Gilt bronze pax board, Pietà. 16th-17th centuries, after Michelangelo Buonarroti
Located in Madrid, ES
Peacekeeper, Mercy. Golden bronze. Possibly Rome, last third of the 16th century-first quarter of the 17th century, following the model of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
Gilded bronze pla...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other, Bronze
"Madonna with Child and Angels". Italy, 15th-16th Centuries
Located in Madrid, ES
Bronze in its color and gold, lapis lazuli, rock crystal, enamel.
In the centre of the work is presented, enthroned, the figure of Mary, with a mantel (fireplace) on her shoulders and hair and holding on her knees the child, who appears addressing one of the angels. The virgin is also sheltered by an ogee arch supported on turned columns, and raised visually by steps. This composition achieves a very striking contrast: the dark bronze figure, in contrast to the lapis lazuli background and the part of the arch and the outside of it, in gilded bronze. Under the steps there is a heraldic enamel shield with a key on an azure background. The angels, kneeling, are flanking this figure, and, appearing in dark bronze, visually share the "category" of religious figures with Mary, while their (lower) position gives more status to both the Mother and Jesus. The rest of the composition is completed with a delicate landscape: constructions and walls on mountains, clouds in the sky, plants, stones, etc. To the outside, another lapis lazuli frame is placed decorated in the corners with appliques, giving way to carved and polychrome wood. The lapis lazuli is a semiprecious stone already known in the seventh millennium BC., found in deposits from the Caucasus to Mauritania. From the end of the middle ages, it increased its export to Europe, its use being more frequent since then both to use it as a pigment in paintings after grinding it (giving rise to the finest and most expensive of the blues, and of the colors in many occasions), as for backgrounds of paintings, incrustations in works of art, jewelry and, a little later, in the well-known "hard stone works". The figure of Mary still shows an influence of Gothic models, although more European than Italian, along with elements that could already show a closeness to the Renaissance: although the nakedness of Jesus is already shown in Gothic works (Madonna with Angels by Fra Angelico ), the creation of space by playing with the cloth in front of Christ can be appreciated in more advanced paintings (Virgin with Child by Domenico Ghirlandaio, National Gallery of London); the presence of a powerful throne can be seen frequently in Italian Madonnas of the Quattrocento (and before), but not quite as presented here. As for the landscape, it is necessary to compare it, for example, with that of the fresco of the Condotiero Guidoriccio de Fogliano (Simone Martini, finished in 1328). This is a work of great technical and aesthetic quality, not to mention the materials chosen for its creation, comparable only to outstanding examples from around the world, such as those preserved in the Palazzo Madama in Torino (Italy), where the coral It also has an important role. It is essential to mention, also, works such as the plate of hard stones (lapis lazuli between them) with a relief of Mary with the Child in...
Category
Antique 16th Century Italian Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Bronze, Enamel, Other
Pair of Tall Eagle Lecterns, Bronze, Etc, 16th Century and Later
Located in Madrid, ES
Pair of easels in the shape of an eagle. Bronze, iron. 16th-17th century.
Rear supports.
Pair of lecterns with tripod-shaped bases, claw-shaped legs with spheres, and a triangular part from which three baluster-shaped legs emerge, with elements in light tones that join at the top of this piece , leaving a vegetal form towards the lower area. The finials are two eagles on spheres, each looking to the side with its head tilted upwards, and situated with its wings half spread; the back is smooth, without the details of the feathers, eyes, beak and claws that do show in the front. The eagles could be from the Spanish school or from the Netherlands, dating from the 16th-17th centuries, while the bases are from the 20th century. It seems that, at least in Spain, the spread of tall lecterns...
Category
Antique 16th Century European Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Holy Oils Vase or Container, Pewter, 18th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Santos Oils container. Pewter. Century XVIII.
Container made of pewter that has a foot, a body with curves, two handles and a lid. Its exterior decoration shows a clear influence o...
Category
Antique 18th Century European Rococo Religious Items
Materials
Pewter
“Ressurrection”, Polychromed Wood, Spanish School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
The relief was probably a door of the Sagrario. The piece follows a customary decoration in the tabernacles of the Renaissance and the Baroque. Compare, for example, with the sevente...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Devotional Pendant, Oil on Aventurine, Gold, Enamel, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Devotional pendant or reliquary. Oil painting on aventurine, enamel, gold. Spain, 17th century.
Medallion or devotional pendant or reliquary made of aventurine or aventurine with an octagonal shape and faceted fronts, enhanced with a series of enamels combining black and gold, which protect two oil paintings with a Catholic Christian religious theme, located one on each side of the piece. Protected, you can see a very particular Virgin with Child for being inspired by the Icon of the Madonna del Popolo (Rome, Italy), and a simplified Martyrdom of San Lorenzo (the saint, the grill and an angel with a crown and the palm corresponding to the subject). The edges of the piece have been protected with simple metal elements.
The painting of San Lorenzo follows a common composition in the Spanish school, and would recall works such as the painting of the main altar of the Church of San Lorenzo de Huesca, for example, but also others such as the engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi (executed around 1527) in some details. The so-called icon of the Madonna del Popolo was well known for being considered as made by Saint Luke, and was brought to the church of the same denomination by Gregory IX from the Sancta Sanctorum of the Lateran Palace after a flood caused a terrible plague in the city and through a solemn procession with the image of Santa Maria del Popolo.
Regarding the material of the piece, a certain type of glass and a type of quartz (which can be green or reddish-brown, and usually has tiny elements of yellow mica that give it golden reflections) is known as aventurine or aventurine. In the first case, it is known that “aventurine” or “stellaria” appears mentioned in the Murano workshops for the first time during the first quarter of the 17th century, in reference to a very complicated production paste (it is said that the name comes from of this circumstance, that is, that its creation was due to luck or luck) that imitates the effects of that stone (from India and Russia at that time) thanks to the inclusion of copper particles, and that it was used as if out of stone (cut) given the complexity of its use in blowing (practically impossible). And, dealing with this material, it is necessary to mention “The Nativity” by Pietro da Cortona, dated around 1656, which is kept in the El Prado...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Gold, Enamel, Other
Possibly Saint Hubert or Saint Eustace, Wood, Spanish School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Possibly Saint Hubertus or Saint Eustace. Carved, polychrome and gilded wood. Spanish school, 16th century.
Carving in polychrome and gilded wood, sim...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Wood
Bronze Bassin for Holy Water, Spain, 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Holy wall font. Bronze. Spain, 17th Century.
Small font for holy water designed to be placed on a wall, which has a container decorated with moldings and architectural elements and...
Category
Antique 17th Century Spanish Baroque Religious Items
Materials
Bronze, Other
Bronze Pax or Pax Board, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Peacekeeper. Bronze. Century XVI.
Bronze purse with a handle on the back in the shape of an esse in the same material and a decoration in light relief on the front that shows, unde...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Bronze
Angel or Archangel, Metal, 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Angel. Metal in silver finish. XIX century.
Angel or archangel figure made of silver metal, and standing on a base that resembles clouds. These types of sculptures were common in the 19th century both for churches and for personal altars...
Category
Antique 19th Century European Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Metal, Other
Angel, Carved and Polychrome Wood, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Angel. Carved and polychrome wood. Century XVI.
Polychrome wood carving showing an angel, with the face facing the viewer and the body in pr...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Saint Paul, Carved and Polychromed Wood. Spanish School, 16th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Spanish school of the sixteenth century. "Saint Paul". Carved and polychrome wood.
Devotional image of a round piece carved in wood, polychrome and gilded, representing the Apostle ...
Category
Antique 16th Century Spanish Renaissance Religious Items
Materials
Other
Pair of Miniatures, Frans van de Casteele 'Kasteels' aka Francesco da Castello
By Francesco da Castello
Located in Madrid, ES
Frans van de Casteele (Kasteels) called Francesco da Castello (Brussels, ca. 1541 - Rome, 1621)
Adoration of the shepherds
Crowning with thorns
First decade of the 17th century.
Tempera and gold on parchment, 290 x 240 mm (with frame).
Original wooden frame with trimmed silver foil applications; in the corners, medallions with the four evangelists.
The two refined miniatures of the Adoration of the Shepherds and the Crowning with Thorns are works of the artist's full maturity, dating from the first decade of the 17th century, characterized by formal simplification and pure colors in the invoice of the garments that stand out from the eburoral incarnations of the characters.
Among the numerous motifs comparable to those of other miniatures by Francesco da Castello, the small medallions with the Evangelists barely outlined on a golden background, closely recall the miniatures, of reduced dimensions, inserted in the compartments of the frame of the altar with the Mysteries del Rosario, as well as those of another box with compartments with the Tree of Jesse...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century European Baroque Decorative Art
Materials
Other
Virgin with Child Enthroned, Boxwood, Bronze and Carved Rock Crystal, 19th C
Located in Madrid, ES
Virgin with Child enthroned. Boxwood, bronze and carved rock crystal. XIX century.
On an upholstered base, another second base has been placed in bronze, the metal in which the throne is made. It stands on four low columns...
Category
Antique 19th Century Spanish Neoclassical Revival Religious Items
Materials
Rock Crystal, Bronze, Other
