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Nautical diorama in glass case depicting 3 ships at sea Italy 1920s
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About the Item
Nautical diorama in glass case with parallelepiped shape depicting 3 ships at 3 masts in navigation.
Italian manufacture of the 1920s.
Bon état.
Measurements 46x17x16.5 cm - inches 18x6.7x6.5
The pole brig began to develop around the 17th century; it was a ship used for both merchant transport and military purposes, and was fast and maneuverable.
Widely used for ocean voyages because of its cargo capacity and maneuverability so it became popular with merchants and privateers.
It carried coffee, coal, spices and cotton, while in the military it was used as a patrol ship, because of its speed it was the ship of choice for both pirates and privateers was ideal for hitting and running.
It was generally built of oak or pine wood, with a tonnage ranging from 200 to 6 tons, was crewed by 15 to 40 men depending on size, with a maximum speed depending on the wind between 10-12 knots.
A diorama is a small-scale setting that recreates, as realistically as possible, scenes of various kinds, usually made for technical use, especially engineering and architectural (reproduction of buildings, industrial objects, and surfaces), for educational purposes or as a hobby (model making).
Il modellismo navale nasce per motivi religiosi. Not content with the triviality of his own life, man wants another, and an eternal one at that, but the soul - by definition immaterial - needs a means to reach the afterlife; it must cross a river, and to do so it needs a boat. The earliest model is a sixty centimeter silver vessel found in excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia, present-day Iraq, and dates back to 2,000 BCE. Model making was reborn in the 15th century, again for religious reasons, but this time as an ex-voto, although the most important and valuable models were those built by shipyards: in fact, until the 17th century, ships were not designed with a drawing; length, width, masts, and rigging were decided, and then relied on a trusted shipyard who "by eye" built the ship according to the instructions received. In order to convince the ruler or minister who was to finance the construction, however, it was necessary to show him something, and to show him what the ship would look like, a model was then built, often a large one, and the better it was made, the better it responded to the marketing of the time; often the king fell in love with the model and kept it for himself, which is why many of these models-true works of art-have come down to us and are all jealously guarded in the various naval museums.
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