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Contemporary Oil on Canvas Painting, Signed Lanci in the Manner of Rene Magritte
Located in Miami, FL
A unique oil on canvas painting that is so perfectly executed that it almost appears to be a machine made print. However, it is not. Instead it's a work that is masterfully painted w...
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20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Paint, Canvas

French Framed Oil on Canvas Still-Life Painting Signed Morin, Depicting Fruits
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French framed oil on canvas still-life painting from the 19th century depicting fruits, signed Morin. Created in France during the 19th century, this oil on canvas painting features mouth-watering cherries and prunes displayed in wicker baskets and flanked with a copper strainer...
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19th Century French Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

Attributed to Charles Edward Hallé "Mother and Child" Oil on Canvas
By Charles Edward Hallé
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Attributed to Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914) "Mother and Child" oil on canvas. The Victorian era artwork depicting a young mother holding her joyful infant child, within a carved gildwood and gesso frame. (Relined). Signed (l/r): C.E. Hallé, circa 1870. Charles Edward Hallé (British, 1846-1914) Born in Paris, the son of Sir Charles Hallé...
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19th Century English Late Victorian Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood

Postmodern Triangular 3d Splatter Paintings - Set of 3
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Incredible postmodern three piece wall art. Each piece is comprised of wood in the shape of a triangle. Displays and green paint over paper.
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1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Canvas, Wood

The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 UK Quad Film Movie Poster, Putzu
By Arnaldo Putzu
Located in Bath, Somerset
The Thomas Crown Affair 1968 UK Quad Film Movie Poster, Putzu The very rare British poster for Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway classic The Thomas Crown Affair. Fabulous artwork by ...
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20th Century British Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Zabihi Collection Vintage Persian Tabriz Ten Commandment Rug
Located in New York, NY
A 3rd quarter of the 20th century Persian Tabriz Rug with Moses holding the 10 commandments on a green background Details rug no. 8747 size 1' 10" x 2' 4" (56 x 71 cm)  
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20th Century Persian Other Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool

Framed Antique Spanish Colonial Painting Cuzco School
Located in Atlanta, GA
A lovely antique oil on linen painting from Spanish Colonial period late 18th-early 19th century. In the style of Classic Cuzco School, the painting depic...
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19th Century Peruvian Spanish Colonial Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Acrylic Framed Hermes "The Three Graces" Zoom 45 Silk Scarf by Alice Shirley
Located in North Fort Myers, FL
A stunning piece of functional art, this Hermès ‘The Three Graces’ Zoom 45 Silk Scarf was designed by Alice Shirley and issued in 2020. The vibrant giraffe motif, set against a bold ...
Category

2010s French Modern Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Bullitt 1968 FRENCH MOYENNE Film Movie Poster, MICHEL LANDI
By Michel Landi 1
Located in Bath, Somerset
"Why don't you just relax and have your orange juice and shut up Delgetti" Fantastic artwork on the French Moyenne film poster, from the 1968 classic a...
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20th Century French Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Zabihi Collection Primitive Abstract Gray Vintage Turkish Kilim
Located in New York, NY
an abstract Turkish Flat-Weave from the middle of the 20th Century Details rug no. r5897 size 7' 5" x 12' 5" (226 x 378 cm)   
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Mid-20th Century Turkish Mid-Century Modern Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool

6.3x8 Ft Silk Embroidery Wall Hanging, Suzani Bedspread, New Uzbek Tablecloth
Located in Spring Valley, NY
In the most technical sense of the word, "Suzani," in Central Asia and Iran, means needle and is used to describe this type of needlework, but to most people, such as decorators or c...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Uzbek Suzani Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Cotton, Silk

Vintage Framed Bird Scene, Japanese, Silk Cotton Embroidery, Art Deco, C.1940
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage framed bird scene. A Japanese, silk cotton embroidery display, dating to the Art Deco period, circa 1940. Attractive Oriental ...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Art Deco Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

4.8x7 Ft Silk Embroidery Wall Hanging, Uzbek Bedspread, Contemporary Tapestry
Located in Spring Valley, NY
Suzani, a Central Asian term for a specific type of needlework, is also the broader name for the hugely popular decorative pieces of textile that feature this needlework in vivid col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Uzbek Suzani Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Cotton, Silk

Professionally Framed Ottoman Embroidery Fragment, Turkey, E 20th Century.
Located in Istanbul, TR
First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. E 20th C. Ottoman Turkey Ready to go on a wall. ...
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Early 20th Century Turkish Folk Art Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Lucien DeLarue 'French, 1927 - 2011' Oil on Canvas French Harbor Scene in Paris
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Oil on canvas depicting a French harbor scene with nearly barren trees in the foreground with branches criss-crossing across the structures, an aqueduct to the right, the reflective ...
Category

20th Century European Beaux Arts Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

MARILYN 1963 French Grande Film Movie Poster, BORIS GRINSSON
Located in Bath, Somerset
Marilyn, the documentary narrated by Rock Hudson and created as a cinematic eulogy to Monroe who died the year before, traces Monroe’s early studio beginnings from inA Ticket to Toma...
Category

20th Century French Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Large Flemish 17th-18th Century Baroque Pictorial Tapestry "the Royal Garden"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large Flemish 17th-18th century baroque pictorial tapestry "The Royal Garden". The large tapestry depicting an allegorical park-scene of R...
Category

18th Century French Baroque Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool, Silk

19th Century French Painting Oil/Canvas Attributed to Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
Located in Vero Beach, FL
19th century French painting oil/canvas attributed Pierre Puvis de Chavannes. Large preparatory study for a mural. It is painted in oil on canvas and it depicts a theatrical scene. De Chavannes’ greatest artistic contribution was the medium of mural painting. His biography states, “De Chavannes’ work proved a vital catalyst, as early modern art...
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Late 19th Century French Post-Modern Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular 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 (all high quality gilt is original) 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, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 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...
Category

19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood

Polish, Cyrk/Circus Poster, 1970, Vintage, Bear Riding Penny Farthing, Srokowski
Located in Bath, Somerset
We love this original Polish CYRK (circus) poster from 1970 with a lovely design by Jerzy Srokowski of a bear on a Penny Farthing bicycle. The ‘Cyrk” circus poster in Poland appeare...
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20th Century Polish Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Paper, Linen

Swedish Modern Tapestry "Nattviol", Butterfly Orchid by Märta Måås Fjetterström
Located in Stockholm, SE
Swedish modern tapestry. The pattern is called "Nattviol" (Butterfly Orchid) and is a part of the series "Juniblommor" (Flowers in June), composed 19...
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1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool, Linen

Professionally Framed Antique Suzani Fragment, 19th Century.
Located in Istanbul, TR
The suzani fragment on the frame is from a 19th C. Suzani. It is hand backed on linen and streched over a strecher and finished with a wooden frame. Ready to go on any wall. The ite...
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19th Century Uzbek Suzani Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Hand Painted Mandala Thangka, circa 1920
Located in Langweer, NL
Beautiful antique mandala thangka. Thangkas are Tibetan scroll paintings. This thangka is painted on fabric and depicts a mandala and associated deitie...
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20th Century Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Fabric

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT THE BEATLES US 1 SHEET Film Movie Poster, 1964 JOSEPH CAROFF
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful first-year-of-release US 1 Sheet for Beatles' classic A Hard Day's Night. We love the design by Joseph Caroff design for the Beatle's first feature film. A fab poster for ...
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20th Century American Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Vintage 1960's Jimi Hendrix Music Blacklight Poster, Joe Roberts Jr
Located in Bath, Somerset
Music doesn't lie! Wonderfully psychedelic Jimi Hendrix "The Experienced" Blacklight poster from the 60s printed with inks which fluoresce under a black light (UV)! Superb design by ...
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20th Century Canadian Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Enter the Dragon 1973 US 1 Sheet Film Movie Poster, Bob Peak
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fantastic design by Bob Peak features on this original US 1 Sheet film poster for seminal Bruce Lee martial arts flick Enter the Dragon. This original vintage movie poster has been ...
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20th Century American Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS 1967 UK Quad Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Fantastic first-year-of-release for Sergio Leone's seminal Spaghetti Western Fistful of Dollars.Superb design of the Man with No Name, Clint Eastwood's first, and iconic, leading rol...
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20th Century British Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

"The Great Escape" US Film Poster, Frank McCarthy, 1963
Located in Bath, Somerset
Smashing country-of-origin poster for John Sturges classic The Great Escape starring Steve McQueen, James Garner and Richard Attenborough. Fantastic design by Frank McCarthy. This v...
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20th Century American Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD R1960S UK Quad Film Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Howard Hawks' The Thing From Another World!, the classic 1951 sci-fi. Great artwork for a great film on the Quad from its early re-release from the 1960's! This vintage movie poster...
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20th Century British Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT THE BEATLES US 1 SHEET Film Movie Poster, 1964 JOSEPH CAROFF
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful first-year-of-release US 1 Sheet for Beatles' classic A Hard Day's Night. We love the design by Joseph Caroff design for the Beatle's first feature film. A fab poster for ...
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20th Century American Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Incredible Hulk 2 Egyptian Film Movie Poster, Linen backed
Located in Bath, Somerset
For Your Eyes Only 1981 Egyptian film movie poster - Linen backed Another fantastic Egyptian film poster, this time for James Bond's For Your E...
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20th Century Egyptian Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Daniel Van Der Putten Oil Painting Panel Irish Castle Snow Scene Galway Ireland
Located in Dublin, Ireland
Superb traditional oil painting by living Artist Daniel Van der Putten, depicting an Irish rural snow scene near Kinvara in County Galway, a view of a Sixteenth Century Irish Castle ...
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Late 20th Century Irish Modern Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

Pair of French 18th Century Hand-Painted Decorative Panels with Fruits and Birds
Located in Atlanta, GA
A pair of French 18th century hand-painted decorative panels with birds in foliage motifs. Each of this pair of French panels features a simple s...
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18th Century French Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
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 two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated 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. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 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...
Category

Early 1900s Italian Baroque Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

Small Blush Silk Tassel with Star Knot Charm
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese knotted tassels are used to add elegance to everyday items like hairpins or lanterns but they often hold sentimental value, and are passed down through families for generatio...
Category

20th Century Chinese Qing Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Jade

Framed Pre-Columbian Woven Textile from Chancay Culture
Located in Atlanta, GA
An antique pre-Columbia textile panel from Chancay culture in Central coast of nowadays Peru. Chancay culture thrived in the late Intermediate period/ late Horizon circa AD. 1000-1470. The panel appears to be an intact shawl or head scarf, indicated by the overall integrity with the finished edges. It is a gauze-like linen/cotton open-square woven panel with supplemental embroidered horizontal bands that alternate between hooked diamond motifs and silhouettes of perched seabirds, one of the most favored animal forms in Chancay art. The color is quite vibrant with red contrasted by two shades of yellow on a darker brown background. The scarf such as this is thought to be associated with ceremonies and magic realm of death and burial practice. The textile is displayed on a dark line background under a newly made acrylic shadow box. Reference: For reading on the bird motifs in Chancay textile art, see page 141-183 of the book "Ancient...
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15th Century and Earlier Peruvian Pre-Columbian Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Textile, Linen

60"x40" Ceramic & Fiber Wall Sculpture in White, Gray, Tan w/ Cotton Fringe
Located in Proctorsville, VT
Wall Sculpture #765 by Karen Gayle Tinney Six panel wall sculpture. Hand formed ceramic pieces in unglazed beige stoneware with white, tan, and gray cotton fringe. Hanging wires are...
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2010s American Organic Modern Fabric Decorative Art

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Ceramic, Cotton

Professionally Framed Silk and Cotton Ikat Fragment, Uzbekistan, E 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. E 20th C. Uzbekistan. Ready to go on a wall. Fram...
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Early 20th Century Uzbek Folk Art Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Oil Painting from the Early 20th Century, Winter Rural Landscape
Located in Opole, PL
Oil Painting from the Early 20th Century, Winter Rural Landscape We present you this oil painting from the early 20th century depicting a winter rural landscape. The painting is in ...
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Early 20th Century European Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood

Antique French Oil Painting of Flowers in a Vase
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Early to mid 20th century French oil painting on canvas of flowers in a vase. Really beautifully painted early 20th century still life signed by artist. Not framed just stretched ...
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Mid-20th Century French Arts and Crafts Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

5.6x7.4 Ft Silk Embroidery Bed Cover, Uzbek Vintage Floral Pattern Wall Hanging
Located in Spring Valley, NY
Suzani, a Central Asian term for a specific type of needlework, is also the broader name for the hugely popular decorative pieces of textile that feature this needlework in vivid col...
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Late 20th Century Uzbek Suzani Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Cotton, Silk

Cannes 1930 French Advertising Travel Poster, George Goursat
By George Goursat
Located in Bath, Somerset
Beautiful original 1930s Cannes Travel Advertising poster designed by George Goursat (SEM). In fantastic Near Mint/Mint linen-backed condition. This original vintage movie poster ...
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20th Century French Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Leonard Thorpe "Nelson's Column" Original Oil Painting, circa 1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
Leonard Thorpe "Nelson's Column" original oil painting, circa 1960 Nelson's Column is a monument in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, Centra...
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas

19th Century Embroidered Silk Panel Map Of The World
Located in Forney, TX
A rare and visually striking framed antique European embroidered silk panel. Exquisitely hand-crafted in Continental Europe in the 19th ...
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19th Century European Victorian Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk, Thread

1930s Embroidered Panel, Korean, Silk Cotton, Bird Motif, Art Deco
Located in Lomita, CA
Silk and cotton embroidery create beautiful depictions of various birds in their native fauna on an embroidered panel. It dates back to the Art Deco period. The patterns and palette ...
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Early 20th Century South Korean Art Deco Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

A Study of Thomas Gainsborough's Portrait Of The Welsh Actress Sarah Siddons
Located in New Orleans, LA
A charming later Victorian textured canvas applied to wood, study of Thomas Gainsborough's three-quarter portrait of the Welsh actress Sarah Siddons, presented in a period Ebonized c...
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1890s English Late Victorian Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Giltwood

Framed ICS Numeral Pennant 6
Located in Norwell, MA
International code of signals pennant, number 6. White and black triangular stitched linen panels. Matted and framed. Measures: Approximately 20" x 33.5".
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20th Century Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Cotton

'Planet of the Apes' 1968 US Insert Film Movie Poster
Located in Bath, Somerset
Wonderful country-of-origin first-year-of-release US Insert film poster for 1968's seminal Sci-fi Planet of the Apes. Fantastic colours on this very rare poster.
 In Planet of the A...
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20th Century American Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Funny Face 1957 French Grande Film Poster, Boris Grinsson
Located in Bath, Somerset
The beautiful 1957 French Grande Funny Face, by the renowned Boris Grinson. Funny Face is a 1957 American musical romantic comedy. Directed by Stanley Donen and written by Leonard Gershe, containing assorted songs by George and Ira Gershwin...
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20th Century French Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

Belgian Figural Tapestry
Located in Antwerp, BE
Finely worked in colored woolens and depicting hunters and two lovers, signed: 'J.V.D.VELDE' Date; c. 1950-70's A charming tapestry in very good condition and representative o...
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Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool

Vintage Mexican Textile Pictorial Yei Weaving Rug
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Mexican pictorial rug weaving with five Yei (Yeibichai) figures holding feathers. Woven of native hand-spun wool in natural fleece yarns ...
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20th Century Mexican Native American Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool

Classic Suzani Silk Hand Embroidery, New Wall Hanging, Bed or Table Cover
Located in Spring Valley, NY
Suzani, a Central Asian term for a specific type of needlework, is also the broader name for the hugely popular decorative pieces of textile that feature this needlework in vivid col...
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21st Century and Contemporary Uzbek Suzani Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Cotton, Silk

1920s Asian Framed Silk Embroidery Butterflies & Flowers
Located in Miami, FL
Early 20th Century embroidery probably framed in the 1960s in a gilt faux bamboo frame. Embroidery on black silk background of flowers and wheat sheaths with two butterflies in fligh...
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1920s Chinese Chinese Export Vintage Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Framed Antique Fez Embroidery , Morocco Early 20th C.
Located in Istanbul, TR
First the fragment has been hand backed on a linen fabric, then stretched over a wooden stretcher and finished with a wooden frame. Early 20th C, Fez , Morocco Ready to go on a wall....
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Early 20th Century Moroccan Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Silk

Zabihi Collection Jewel Tone Superfine Antique Persian Jozan Souf Mat
Located in New York, NY
An early 20th century collector caliber Persian Souf carpet handwoven in the Jozan Region. Measures: 2'3" x 2'7" Souf rugs are very rare technique foun...
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Early 20th Century Persian Empire Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wool

"FANTASY" Oil on Canvas by Thomas Hart Benton
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
"FANTASY" by Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on canvas laid on wood with a gorgeous gold gilded frame. Price upon request.
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint

"A WOMAN LIKE SATAN" 1959 French Grande Film Movie Poster, YVES THOS
Located in Bath, Somerset
Superb first-year-of-release country-of-origin French Grande film poster for La Femme et le Pantin featuring a wonderful design by Yves Thos. La...
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20th Century French Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Linen, Paper

18th-19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Triumph of Venice" After Paolo Veronese
By Paolo Veronese
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine and Large Italian 18th-19th century oval-shaped oil on canvas titled "The Triumph of Venice" After the original work by Paolo Veronese (Venice, 1528-1588). The original of this painting hangs in the Palazzo Ducale, Venice. The 'Ricci' coloration suggests a late 17th-early 18th century date. In 1715 Charles de la Fosse advised Ricci to paint only "Veroneses and no more Riccis", Venice, circa 1800. Measures: Height: 45 1/4 inches (115 cm). Width: 29 inches (73.7 cm). Frame height: 58 1/4 inches (147.9 cm). Frame width: 43 1/4 inches (109.9 cm). Frame depth: 5 1/4 (13.3 cm). Provenance: Royal Academy of Scotland. Paolo Veronese (Born 1528, Verona, Republic of Venice - died April 9, 1588, Venice) was an Italian painter of the Renaissance in Venice, famous for paintings such as The Wedding at...
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Early 1800s Italian Renaissance Antique Fabric Decorative Art

Materials

Wood, Gesso, Canvas

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