Baroque Furniture

Our “TOSCANO” Credenza - The Italian Art & Handcraft of Fine Antique Reproduction This rustic style handcrafted credenza features Old Poplar hardwoods, finely aged with distressed p...

A scarce Baroque period Spanish or Italian hand carved polychrome painted wood Santo sculpture with inset colored glass eyes, original white robe garb and later wood rosary. Intrica...

Unique Italian 18th century hand painted Louis XV "Cassettone" Marchigiano from the Center of Italy region of Marche Italy, circa 1740. Important, unique ...

From Northern Spain, constructed of solid walnut, the rectangular top with molded edge atop a conforming case housing two drawers over two doors, the doors paneled with solid walnut,...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

French Baroque tapestry fragment depicting a scene from Greek mythology, Poseidon and Amphitrite, circa 1690. Attributed to Isaac Moillon, Pari...

An exceptional pair of 19th century Spanish Baroque demilune tables or consoles in ebony painted walnut wood with elaborated design and carved figural...

Pair of Fortuny style pillows, each swathed in a captivating teal blue, a color that conjures the depth and mystery of ocean waters. These pillows are adorned with a floral and leaf...

925 sterling silver art nouveau style vertical rectangular picture / photo frame featuring pierced, swirling floral and foliate filigree accented with coral red and veined turquoise ...

Rectangular antique occasional table, Circa 1900 France

Antique cast iron French pastry style black scrolling "Butterfly" coffee table with marble top. Item features impressive cast iron construction, four "butterfly wing" legs, fancy scr...

This striking pair of Fortuny pillows features a bold and elegant classical motif in a rich golden ochre stenciled over a warm silvery taupe ground. The cotton Fortuny textile front ...

A very fine Italian 18th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, 1582-1647). The young Virgin Mary attending to...

An Italian walnut corner cabinet, molded cornice, over triangular case, upper and lower cupboard doors with contrasting marquetry panels, opening to reveal shelved interior, rising o...

A very fine Italian 17th century oval oil on canvas "Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns" Circle of Pierre Mignard (French, 1612-1695) within...

Adolf Constantin Baumgartner Stoiloff (Austrian/Russian, 1850-1924) a fine oil on board "Charging Cossack Warriors on Horseback" within an ornate giltwood frame, circa 1890 Born in 1850 in Linz (Austria) Stoiloff died in Vienna in 1924. According to a research of Russian literature, he studied in the 1880s at St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was very well known for his Russian horse...

17th century Italian walnut library table or writing desk. Desk features three drawers amongst beautifully floral carved apron. Legs are carved in an old style swirl-twist shape on b...

A Large Pair of French 19th Century Baroque Style Free-Standing Serpentine Wrought Iron Wall Console Tables with marble top. The slender bowed wrought iron bodies surmounted with lea...

A Beautiful Italian Still Life oil painting on old canvas of a brass urn holding a bouquet of assorted flowers set on a ledge. 18th or ...

this large scale painting depicting two hunting dogs engaged in a fight with a larger heron in a marshy landscape at dusk, with a duck at lower right and a frog lower left, in a rest...

French perfumed scents necessaire from the 18th century. This is a fantastic and very rare 18th century necessaire box for perfumed scents, created in the kingdom of France during t...

A finely rendered heraldic watercolor on paper depicting an elaborate composite coat of arms, signed lower right “E. Wenzel” and likely executed in the late 19th century. The work pr...

From Northern Spain, constructed of solid walnut, the rectangular top with molded edge atop a conforming case housing three drawers over three doors, the doors paneled with solid wal...

Our new Cortina Library features rustic Old Fir with a unique patinated antique beige finish. Available to order in a variety of wood species and finish colors, and in custom size an...

This is a gilt bronze repousse rectangular jewelry/decorative box. It features in the top of the lid a scene of Don Quixote riding his horse at the sam...

Gorgeous Blue and White transfer ware Ginger Jar Urns. Hand made in Holland. Beautiful rich color. Both in excellent condition.

House of Heydenryk Florentine Giltwood Picture Frame Mirror, late 19th century, the rectangular acanthus leaf frame enclosing an oval mirror plate. 45" H x 38" W.

This pair of French stone sculptures from the early 20th century features two Médicis vases with gadroon decor on a square base. This exquisite pair of early 20th-century French ston...

Dining table made of walnut with carved lyre legs and heavy top. The lyre legs are very thick. Beautiful iron stretcher, Spanish, 18th century.

A fine Italian garden seat or grotto stool of cast stone in the Baroque style - featuring a sculpture of a cherub or putti faun in a kneeling posit...

A fine Italian 19th century Baroque style carved walnut figural throne armchair, attributed to Valentino Panciera Besarel (Venice, 1829-1902) in the manner of Andrea Brustolon...

Ebonized Flemish mirror dated to early-to-mid-18th century. Hand-carved ebonized frame surrounding old mirror glass (not original glass).

A striking and opulent Italian Baroque-style wall mirror, dating to the mid to late 19th century, featuring a richly carved giltwood frame with bold scrollwork, acanthus flourishes, ...

This is a unique set of white Marble Urns. there unique being that there 2 piece and stand on a base.

Made in France, circa 1890, this table takes inspiration from the Spanish Fratino, a style of refectory table. It features a rectangular top with exciting texture and grain pattern, ...

Vintage Baroque by Wallace Oval Silver Plated Victorian Style Serving Platter Tray. Item features ornate handles, nice heavy construction, original hallmark. Circa Mid 20th Century. ...

This handsome baroque style oak library or refectory table with two drawers has heavy turned legs, scalloped skirt and lower stretcher. The top is all natural oak with nicks, cracks ...

Behold a rare and remarkable treasure from 17th century Spain: the vargueño. Crafted from solid one-inch thick walnut panels, this vargueño stands as a testament to the masterful cra...

A monumental 20th century Spanish trestle table, having a rectangular framed solid walnut inset board top, resting on hand carved, classical lyre legs joined by four beautifully iron...

Antique French Tapestry Arts & Crafts Noblemen 1890 Wool & Silk 6x7 183 x 206cm A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting a scene of noblemen dressed up amongst exotic fruit...

Beautiful walnut bookcase piece that can be used as a desk or work table. Made of robust walnut wood. All its legs and stretcher are Solomonic and it has a drawer with its iron handl...

A very impressive ensemble including a large Gilt Wood Mirror and a Gilt Console with Marble Top. Provenance: the Dodge estate near Tuxedo Park, NY. Both in matching elaborate Baroqu...

Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration Book by Alastair Laing, Anthony Blunt, and Christopher Ernest Tadgell. A study of a period in art ...

This exquisite pair of vintage linen pillows showcases opulent 19th-century metallic and silk coat of arms appliqués. Each pillow features a rega...

Pair of Hand-Carved Giltwood Five-Light Wall Sconces A dramatic and sculptural pair of wall sconces, each crafted from richly patinated and hand-carved wood fragments with traces of...

Distinctive walnut varqueño cabinet or chest on stand made in the Spanish baroque taste by Flint and Horner Co. New York, New York. When R.J. Horner retired his company merged with G...

A good antique French baroque carved walnut credence cabinet on stand, circa 1650. The two part cabinet comprising a two door cabinet on stand, the top having a carved & stepped crown, below are a pair of cupboard doors the rectangular panels in relief and carved with a lozenge design to the center, these panels are repeated on the sides. The doors are flanked with a pair of carved winged cherub masks with a carved foliate panel below, a corresponding carved panel is between the doors. The rear of the doors are covered with a mustard colored fabric and can be easily removed, the doors have the original hand cut steel lock and key and the doors enclose a single shelf. The cabinet dates circa 1650 the stand below is from the mid 19th century, circa 1850, the stand having a single drawer carved with a saints head to the center & a carved frieze with arches containing carved acanthus leaf. The stand is raised on two pairs of tall 'Barley Twist' columns to the front, below is a stepped storage...

Discover the Beauty of a Hand-Carved Gilt Wood Wall Mirror with Acanthus Leaf Decor which dates back to the mid 19th century and comes from Germany. Experience the allure of this e...

This exquisite two-toned caramel and raspberry pink colored Murano glass chandelier showcases a mastery of Murano glass craftsmanship. Featuring a bulbous center column with sproutin...

A large and magnificent vintage Italian Renaissance lidded Capodimonte style porcelain serving vessel (makes for a wonderful soup tureen or visually striking table centerpiece). The exceptionally executed scalloped shaped handled covered dish serveware features elaborate relief decoration of cherub figures and sheep pictured...

Pair Baroque Style Erotic Prints of Compromised Monks & Nuns, Italy, 20th Century Prints,  This pair of vertical Italian Baroque-style erotic prints from the 20th century provides a...

This handsome baroque library table has one drawer, heavily turned legs and solid base which is ready for display, baskets,and more. The aged pine reveals nicks, gouges, stains, drie...

This French antique passmenterie is created, circa 1800. A round netted top is connected with a thick twisted metallic gold bullion rope. This was used as...

A rare antique Italian giltwood framed reliquary. 18th/19th century, hand carved giltwood frame housing an exceptional relief carving, d...

This handsome baroque library table with one drawer has a scalloped skirt, heavily turned legs and traditional stretchers between the legs. The base has an aged and distressed blue p...

17th century Spanish or Spanish Colonial oak chest with wrought iron hinges and mounts, original key and working lock. The front panel with chip carved surface, scalloped gardrooning...

This is a gorgeous antique square 17th century flemish Verdure landscape tapestry without figures in a beautiful and rich summer scene of a countryside with lush trees and vegetation...

A pair of unusual and highly decorative Candle Sconces. 19th century repose` with later wood hand-painted stenciled and ebonized backplate. The sconces with hinged and swinging "bird...

Asian Silk Road Style Venetian Italian antique shoes leather and silk embroidered framed in a lucite box. Pair of Antique Venetian leather and silk silk ladies shoes slippers embroid...

Dramatic pair of large 19th century Italian bed coronas or crowns made in the Baroque taste. The coronas feature demi-lune shaped frames embe...