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Place of Origin: Italian
A paradoxical orrery that demonstrates the earth-moon system. Italy circa 1860.
Located in Milan, IT
A paradoxical orrery that demonstrates the earth-moon system and its movement. The base of the planetarium is made of fruit wood, circular in shape with three bell-shaped wood feet. ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
1950s Seguso Bubbling Pink Confection Murano Glass Bowl
By Archimede Seguso
Located in Miami, FL
Resembling a sea anemone, this blown glass vessel by Seguso is indeed a delight with its salmon pink color and wealth of interior bubbles. Heavy, thick and wonderfully obese and glob...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Made in Italy Speaker, Black & Matt Bronze Ceramics, Customizable, 2022
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Description
This is an amplifier compatible with all smartphones in which the speaker is positioned at the bottom, near the microphone. It will allow you to increase the volume of y...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
$175 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Ancient original carriage from the 1800s
Located in Cesena, FC
Original Italian carriage from around 1870-80.
Four-wheeled carriage equipped with a large foldable canvas bellows,
with a two-seat seat for passengers and fitted with a higher seat ...
Category
1870s Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Ancient Neoclassical Cameo Intaglio, 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient Neoclassical Cameo Intaglio in biscuit.
Italy, 19th Century.
Good condition.
Category
19th Century Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
$287 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Radio Rentals Speakers Model 91, italy, 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Radio Rentals Speakers Model 91.
Category
1950s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bakelite
Vintage Set of Three 1940s Copper Trumpets - Antique Musical Instrument Collecti
Located in Manzano, IT
Vintage Set of Three 1940s Copper Trumpets - Antique Musical Instrument Collection
Add a touch of history to your collection with this uniq...
Category
1940s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
$1,403 Sale Price / set
35% Off
Arena Large Bicolor Dice Set
By Giobagnara
Located in Milan, IT
This exquisite dice set is made up of a round wood tray covered in leather that, on the outer rim, features strips of two different colors. The tray comes wit...
Category
2010s Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Wood
$914 / item
Petite Vintage Micro Mosaic Brooch Millefiori Venice Italy
Located in Nuernberg, DE
A gorgeous petite micro mosaic jewelry. No restoration has been carried out on this charming little piece, which remains in very stabile and fun...
Category
1960s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Aereo modello Francesco Baracca SPAD S.XIII in legno dipinto a mano
Located in modena, Emilia-Romagna
Francesco Baracca (Lugo, 9 maggio 1888 – Nervesa, 19 giugno 1918) è stato il principale asso dell'aviazione italiana durante la prima guerra mondiale, nel corso della quale gli venne...
Category
1940s Modern Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Vintage 70's Martuano - Italy Designer Women's Oversized Color Fade Sunglasses
By Nina Ricci
Located in St. Louis, MO
Fabulous circa late 1970s or early 1980s designer women's XXL oversized sunglasses with color fade frames from rose to clear and grey fade lens. Marked on frames : Martuano made in I...
Category
1970s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Plastic
19th Century Italian Renaissance Walnut Carved Miniature Blanket Chest or Coffer
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Rare and fine quality 19th century Italian Renaissance walnut carved miniature blanket chest or coffer. Fine carving in walnut wood on the fron...
Category
1830s Renaissance Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Important Early 18th Century Italian Carved Monstrance Reliquary Tabernacle
Located in Forney, TX
Important and historic, acquired from the estate of legendary American businessman, the late T. Boone Pickens, we're proud to offer this exceptional carved giltwood reliquary - monstrance from the early 18th century.
Elaborately hand carved in period Rococo - Rocaille taste, with superb scrollwork, openwork, fanciful acanthus leaf and shell, ornate detailing, polychrome painted warm pastel colors, now beautifully distressed, muted tones, with remnants of gold gilded accents.
Pieces such as this were used in early churches for convenient exhibition or public display of some object of piety and other important religious relics...
Category
Early 18th Century Rococo Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Giltwood
Basquiat a Cuneo (rare 2001 Basquiat exhibition catalog)
By (after) Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat a Cuneo 2001 catalog:
Rare vintage 2001 Italian Basquiat exhibition catalog, published on the occasion of: “Basquiat a Cuneo”: Galeria d'Arte Il Prisma, 2001. B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Mid-Century Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Italian Folk Art Stradivarius Violin Plaque Crafted for Cosimo de Medici 1690
Located in South Burlington, VT
Italian folk art Pyrography picture signed, H. Toscano
This is an original and unusual detailed 1690 enactment , and hand incised work of art on wood pan...
Category
19th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage 90's Dolce & Gabbana 511S Black Frame & Rose Lenses Oval Fly Sunglasses
By Dolce & Gabbana
Located in St. Louis, MO
Fabulous 1990s Dolce & Gabbana designer women's Oval Fly Sunglasses with black frame & rose lenses. Marked on frames : Dolce & Gabbana 511S, Made in Italy.
Inside dims between ar...
Category
1990s Hollywood Regency Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass, Plastic
Atomic Age Mint Green Italian Desk Fan by BJM
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Great Italian design desk fan. Early 60s space age. Made of plastic and chromed metal. There is a on and off button on the backside, made by BJM. The fan works like a charm (the move...
Category
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
Antique Map of Persia by A. Zatta, circa 1785
Located in Langweer, NL
Antique map titled 'L'Impero della Persia diviso ne suoi Stati'. The Empire of Persia divided into its states. Originates from 'Atlante Novissimo, illustrato ed accresciuto sulle oss...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Accordion by Sabatino Nocentini & Figli Made in Florence, Italy
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Antique Italian custom made accordion by Sabatino Nocentini Castiglion & Figli.
Antique pearl white accordion, Italian accordion with profuse inlay decoration, gorgeous hand made wit...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Abalone, Wood, Shell
Commedia Dell'arte Harlequin Doll, Silk and Papier Mache, Italy
Located in Toronto, CA
This is an irresistible Italian doll of the classic Commedia Dell'arte figure the Harlequin, or Arlecchino, as he is known in Italian. Probably made in V...
Category
Late 20th Century Renaissance Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Fabric, Paper
$488 Sale Price
27% Off
The Treasury of San Marco, Venice First Edition by David Buckton Hardcover Book
By David Buckton
Located in North Hollywood, CA
The treasury of San Marco, Venice by David Buckton. Olivetti, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1984. 1st Ed hardcover with dust jacket. Catalogue of the exhibition held at the Grand Palai...
Category
Late 20th Century Country Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Italian Brass Land-Surveyor Instrument Made in 1860 with its Original Walnut Box
Located in Milan, IT
Land-surveyor squaring, measuring instrument made of brass, Italian manufacture, from the second half of the 19th century, complete with original walnut box. It is a topographic inst...
Category
1860s Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Bronze Mortar - Italy - 16th Century
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Superb Italian Renaissance bronze mortar with his pestle - 16th century
Very beautiful model with AN in its center surmounted by a cross below .
The mortar is decorated with several...
Category
16th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Cameo or intaglio, Triptolemus. Glass. 19th century.
Located in Madrid, ES
Cameo or intaglio, Triptolemus. Glass. 19th century.
Mythological scene with the Greek word “karilaos” (pseudo-signature) showing a young man standing in front of a chariot drawn ...
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Revival Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Concorde Supersonic Plane Display Mounted Sculpture in Polished Stainless Steel
Located in Milano, IT
Decorative Item - Concorde Model - Stylish Decor
Spinzi is a Milano based creative atelier specialised in furniture design as well as sourcing and trading relevant mid-century colle...
Category
2010s Space Age Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Stainless Steel
$613 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Glass Pharmacy Jars, Italy, 1930s
Located in Palermo, IT
Pair of glass pharmacy jars, Italy, 1930s
Found in an old disused pharmacy.
Good condition. One has an imperceptible chip on the edge.
Being handcra...
Category
1930s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Glass
Bulgari : 125 years of Italian Magnificence by Amanda Triossi Hardcover Book
By Bulgari
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Bulgari: 125 Years of Italian Magnificence : Grand Palais.Hardcover Book by Amanda Triossi and Daniela Mascetti.Bulgari, Rome & Skira Editore, Milan © 2010.First English edition. Pub...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art Deco Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Made in Italy Speaker, Matt Black & Spotted Gold Ceramics, Customizable, 2022
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Description
This is an amplifier compatible with all smartphones in which the speaker is positioned at the bottom, near the microphone. It will allow you to increase the volume of your smartphone by 15/20 decibels!
European Design Patent filed n. 005778529
Materials
Handmade in 100% Italian ceramic and non-toxic glazes, i.e. free of lead and other substances harmful to the health of workers (as required by EU regulations).
METHOD OF USE
Just insert your smartphone in the appropriate space and start your favorite music to hear it clear and loud at home, outdoors or wherever you want! It has a hole for passing the power cable.
ECO-SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION
The production method is characterized by an ethical and eco-sustainable approach. Ceramics of controlled origin, non-toxic glazes and photovoltaic panels are used to guarantee the functioning of the electric ovens...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
$175 Sale Price / item
25% Off
GUFRAMINI Pratone by Ceretti, Derossi & Rosso - 1stdibs New York
By Riccardo Rosso, Piero Derossi and Giorgio Ceretti, Gufram Furniture
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
The mini Pratone® plays with the juxtaposition of a "large-small" proportion by reducing to 7/8 the giant Pratone that was designed in 1972 by Ceretti, Derossi, and Rosso, and exhibited that year at the MoMA as part of the Italy: The New Domestic Landscape exhibition. Just like the original version, the base of the "mini" sculpture shows the writing ‘Pratone’ on one of the sides, and 42 soft stems stretching in different directions complete the radical look of this little icon.
As if in a fairy tale, the Gufram icons have become smaller and have now turned into Guframini®! The most radical Italian design...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Other
Piedmontese Furniture, First Edition
By Elio Quaglino
Located in valatie, NY
Il Mobile Piemontese (Piedmontese Furniture.) Milan: Görlich Editore, 1997. First edition hardcover with dust jacket. 204 pp. Italian text. A beautiful book on the history of carved Piedmont furniture...
Category
20th Century Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Set of Two 18th Century Italian Silk Frames with Embroidery and Saints Figures
Located in Milano, MI
Pair of antique embroidered frames, rectangular shape, in ivory colored silk satin with embroidery in cotton and gold lamé of floral elements and love knots. These are devotional monastic Italian...
Category
Late 18th Century Rococo Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paste, Silk
Apocalypse of S. John with 22 Drawings by Giorgio De Chirico, Autographed
By Giorgio De Chirico
Located in Torino, IT
Apocalypse of Saint John with 22 drawings by Giorgio De Chirico.
Bestetti Publisher.
Volume n ° 1028/1099
Autographed by De Chirico
Origin
Italy
Period
1977.
Author
Te...
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Leather, Paper
$2,206 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Original Aviation Pencil Drawing Depicting an Albatros CIII WWI Aircraft
By Riccardo Cavigioli
Located in Milan, IT
Pencil drawing depicting a two-seat biplane airplane for reconnaissance Albatros C III produced in 1916, by Riccardo Cavigioli. Measure with frame cm 53.5 x 31.4 - inches 21 x 13.
...
Category
1920s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Richard Meier Architect Volume 4
By Richard Meier
Located in Saint Petersburg, FL
"Richard Meier, Architect, Vol. 4: 2000-2004,"
Soft cover 1st publication by Rizzoli Publishing; 432 pages
Book contains no markings on any sort on its pages.
No loose pages. Bin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
Signed Multi Faceted Murano Glass Ashtray Attributed to Flavio Poli, Italy
By Flavio Poli, Murano Glass Sommerso
Located in Miami, FL
Multifaceted brown and yellow Sommerso Murano glass ashtray, glass bowl attributed to Flavio Poli.
Brown and amber glass cased into clear glass and a highly decorative twelve faced g...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Murano Glass
Lighter Elephant in Travertine attributed to Fratelli Mannelli, Italy 1970s
By Fratelli Mannelli
Located in Rome, IT
Table lighter elephant in Travertine attributed to Fratelli Mannelli.
Made in Italy in the 1970s.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Travertine, Marble, Metal
Mobili Veneziani Laccati, Venetian Lacquer Furniture, 2 Volume Set First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
Mobili Veneziani Laccati, Venetian Lacquer Furniture, 2 Volumes by Giuseppe Morazzoni. Luigi Alfieri, Milano, nd, First Edition hardcovers. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
18th Century hand carved walnut italian relic Santos
Located in London, GB
18th Century Santos
A finely carved late 18th Century wooden Santos or Apostles head. Bears traces of original paint to top of its head. Mounted o...
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Walnut
Venetian Brass Four-Masted Model Ship with Detailed Décor, Mounted on Base
Located in Atlanta, GA
An Italian brass Venetian model ship from the 20th century with four masts, mounted on wood. This exquisite Italian brass Venetian model ship from the 20th century is a captivating b...
Category
20th Century Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass
Italian Mid Century Lacquer/Vellum Table Screen, Canaletto Style View of Venice
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Italian mid century Lacquer/Vellum table screen -Canaletto style view of Venice
Italy, Circa 1960s
A stunning diminutive work, in four parts beautifully ...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Metal
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
Ekco Type RS2 Radio Receiver, italy, 1932 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Ekco Type RS2 Radio Receiver.
Produced in 1932 ca.
Fair condition due to the time.
Category
1930s Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Resin
Ciclotte Bike in Red Steel by Luca Schieppati
By Luca Schieppati
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ciclotte Bike is an innovative exercise bike, designed and made in Italy, that combines idea, form and technology rethinking the traditional aesthetic an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Steel
$16,897 / item
A pair of celestial and terrestrial globes, E.Pini, Gussoni & Dotti, Italy 1892.
Located in Milan, IT
Pair of Italian globes. On an ebonized wooden base, worked on the lathe, with a circular foot and perfect patina, are placed: a celestial globe of 9,2 inches, compiled by the enginee...
Category
1890s Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
18th Century Italian Antique Oil on Canvas Painting Saint Francesco Saverio
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
Beautiful antique Italian oil painting on canvas. Excellent pictorial quality great attention to detail. Italian school of the 18th century. Not signed. A beautiful religious painting Saint Francesco...
Category
1750s Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Canvas
$4,796 Sale Price
20% Off
Made in Italy Speaker, Black & Platinum Ceramics, Customizable, 2022
By Mosche Bianche
Located in San Miniato PI, IT
Description
This is an amplifier compatible with all smartphones in which the speaker is positioned at the bottom, near the microphone. It will allow you to increase the volume of y...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Ceramic
$175 Sale Price / item
25% Off
Caravaggesque Oil on Copper "Flagellation of Christ" Baroque Sicilian, 17th Cent
By (After) Caravaggio
Located in Milano, IT
Splendid 17th-century Italian painting by unknown artist, but certainly a follower of Caravaggio, relying on style and drawing.
The painting has a very beautiful gilded wooden frame, with a subtle greek with spheres and an overlying rectangular frame with sinuous flowers on each corner, very elegant and beautiful.
The painting depicts one of the most depicted religious scenes ever, the scourging of Christ, and is entirely done in oil on copper.
The scourging of Jesus is an episode narrated in the Gospels (Mk15:15-16; Mt27:26-27; Lk23:16-26; Jn19:1-17[1]).
Scourging is a flogging, particularly bloody, by means of sticks, rods or cat-o-nine-tails, the latter instrument consisting, in the Roman typology, of a short stick to which were secured several strings ending in metal claws, leads and bone splinters that caused tremendous lacerations and fractures to the tortured person. Chains are used in this scene, both to immobilize Jesus Christ and to flog him, as we can see in the upper right hand of the scourger.
According to some personal research, it turned out that the actual scourging of Christ was mostly depicted at the column, while this Christ is on the ground, so presumably Christ here is scourged during the Way of the Cross at one of those stages where he fell.
The painting has a very dark coloring, which is why this painting is believed to faithfully follow Caravaggio's style of dry, authoritarian brushstrokes. The painting shows a figure agonizing on the ground that continues to receive beatings and floggings of all kinds, representing Christ; his face is crucified in a loquacious expression of pain, he turns his eyes to heaven as if to invoke God, but at the same time those same eyes admonish the wickedness and arrogance inherent in humanity.
Christ has one hand resting on the ground in the act of holding himself, while the other takes a completely unnatural stance against the barren ground. His body appears hardened to wanting to parry the blows, his legs are curled up on his knees as he takes kicks from the soldier above him. Christ is depicted pinned down from the neck with a very large and strong black iron bolt held by the other soldier. The soldier on the right in the foreground wears a one-shoulder tunic with an orange tunic and blue pants. On his feet he wears gray shoes, at his waist he has a belt with an iron helmet...
Category
17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper
$17,268 Sale Price
20% Off
1970's Sergio Todeschini Bobo Telephone for Telcer, Italy
Located in Praha, CZ
Unique model of dial plastic phone by Sergio Todeschini, made in Italy in the 1970's.
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plastic
Large 18th Century Repousse Baroque Ecclesiastical Carta Gloria, Venetian
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This original 18th century frame is silver gilded over copper. It is elaborately embossed and chiseled. The cartouche is surrounded by rocaille and volute motifs. The Carta is mounte...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Copper, Silver Leaf
$1,762 Sale Price
25% Off
18 kt Yellow and White Gold Art Deco Italian Brooch, 1940s
Located in Palermo, IT
Brooch in 18 kt yellow and white gold, art deco, Italy, 1940s
It belonged to my great-grandmother, it weighs gr. 4.0.
18-karat gold (750 thousandths), workmanship now disappeared, pi...
Category
1940s Art Deco Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Gold
Three-Dimensional Midcentury Italian Wall Plaster Didactic Anatomical, 1950s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Italian midcentury three-dimensional didactic anatomical panel in plaster with Antonio Vallardi Milano label, Italy 1950s
Please note that the item is original of the period and t...
Category
1950s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster, Wood
$412 Sale Price
20% Off
Deco Hollywood Regency Murano Glass Pink Pineapple Lighter Gold Aventurine Brass
Located in Palm Beach, FL
This striking Murano glass pineapple lighter is an exceptional piece of Art Deco and Hollywood Regency design, crafted in Italy circa 1950. A true statement of opulence and artistry,...
Category
1950s Hollywood Regency Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Brass, Gold
Cambissa & Co Italian Wood Cased Card & Counter Gaming Set
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
An exceptional quality mid-century Italian wooden games box attributed to Cambissa & Co. The box is constructed from two different colored woods assembled...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Wood
Italian Antique Botanical Model Early 1900s Plaster on Wooden Base
By Antonio Vallardi Editore
Located in Milan, IT
Botanical model made of painted plaster and mounted on black painted wooden boards of an orthotropic ovule made by prof. T. Ferraris for Vallardi publisher Milan Scientific material, complete with plate with the legend of the names of the various parts of the mushroom, early 1900s. Good condition. Measures: 20.5 x 15.7 cm, height 25.5 cm.
The origins of the publisher Vallardi date back to 1750 when founder Francesco Cesare (1736-1799) acquired a small craft in the heart of old Milan. In the early nineteenth century, the publishing house was noted for the production of works of art, geography and science, including a "Tour of Italy" which took twenty-two printings between 1819 and 1835. The complete works of various maps and directions for travel, including timetables and fares for transportation of the time, can be considered the first modern tourist guide. The firm "Vallardi" was born in 1843 and the company became industrial, with the opening of branches on national scale...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Plaster, Wood
Pair of Bronze Viking 1 and 2 Mars Landing Commemorative Medallions
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of bronze Viking 1 and 2 Mars landing commemorative medallions, circa 1976. This rare pair was issued by Medallic Art Co. to commemorate the Viking ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Bronze
Nature & Animals Posing in Still Life Art, European & Italian Coffee Table Book
Located in New York, NY
Nature Posing the Grand Season of Still Life of Europe and Italy; A large (grand) coffee table or library book, 1977, Milano, Italy. Translation of Title in Italian: Natura In Posa, ...
Category
1970s Rustic Vintage Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Paper
18th Century Italian Wooden Carved Sarcophagus-Shaped Chest with Reliquary
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An Italian Rococo sarcophagus-shaped wooden chest of bombé rectangular form with richly carved gilt decoration on a distressed ebonized ground. The hinged pagoda top lid is skillfull...
Category
18th Century Rococo Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Giltwood, Wood
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Signed Limited Edition Book with Capitello Bookstand
By TASCHEN, Gufram Furniture, Studio 65, Dian Hanson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
He’s a four-time Mr. Universe, seven-time Mr. Olympia. His films have grossed four billion dollars worldwide. He won the California governor’s race by a landslide. He has one of the most recognizable faces in the world, an oft-imitated accent, and a physique still heralded as the most perfect ever built. He’s Arnold, the one and only, with first name recognition worldwide, and now with a two-volume edition equal to his impressive size and unabashed ego.
A decade of collaboration in the making, this photo tribute covers 75 years of Schwarzenegger, from the future Terminator’s impoverished childhood in Thal, Austria, to his rise as a young athlete, his journey to America to become the most celebrated bodybuilder of all time, to his career as the world’s leading action film star, then into the California governor’s mansion and beyond.
Along the journey, Arnold’s muscular body, chiseled features, and charismatic personality made him a favorite subject of photographers, including Richard Avedon, Annie Leibovitz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Herb Ritts, Francesco Scavullo, and Andy Warhol. The big book includes them all, while the smaller companion volume gives you more intimate bodybuilding images, behind-the-scenes film stills, dozens of photos from Arnold’s personal archive, and exclusive interviews with Arnold and those who know him best, including directors Ivan Reitman and Bob Rafelson, and bodybuilding legends Franco Columbu, Dave Draper, and Frank Zane.
The Capitello edition comes with a unique book stand – a 1:2 scale reproduction of the iconic Capitello chair...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Foil
17th Century Italian Massive Silver Crucifix with Golden Wood Frame, circa 1900s
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Very rare and precious 1600s Italian massive silver crucifix in bulletin board golden wood frame
Measures cm: H 40, W 26, D 6
About:
On an iconogr...
Category
Early 17th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Silver
"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...
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16th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Lapis Lazuli, Bronze, Enamel, Other
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By Muchi Decor by LA-RI S.r.l.
Located in Poviglio, IT
This Collectible Shearling and South American Beaver Turtle Plush was conceived by Muchi Decor as refined but light-hearted decoration for your room. This plush is made of real shea...
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