Three Louis XVI 18th Century gilded wood wall mirrors

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...

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...

Pair of Louis XVI Style, Large Wall or Floor Mirrors, Giltwood, Gesso, Europe, 19th C. Exquisite Pair of striking large giltwood and gesso mirrors, each featuring a central beveled p...

Italian Louis XVI Style, Hollywood Regency, Wall or Console Mirrors, Compatible Pair Hollywood Regency louis XVI style wall or console mirrors. This pair of large and impressive mir...