Italian Decorative Art

Madonna & Child Religious Wall Icon A beautifully aged Madonna and Child religious icon, painted in the traditional style of Italian devotional art. Set on a shaped wooden panel wit...

Mid-Century Modern Italian Studio Pottery Wall Plate from Antonio Milani, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This piece has an attribution mark. Additional inform...

We love the wonderful pop art design by Franz Marangolo that features on this supersized vintage Italian advertising poster Campari Soda. Founded in Milan in 1860 by Gaspare Campar...

Small rectangular Pietra Dura inlaid marble painted artwork featuring a coastal town scene. We see this mosaic piece resting on an easel on a shelf or side t...

Pair of wonderful mid-century brass frame and glass/crystal wall mirrors. Italy, 1950s.    

Enhance your space with the exquisite Lemongrass Leaf Brunch Wall Sconce from our Hortus line in the eclectic collection. Designed by the creative Cecilia Pantaleo, crafted from iron...

Fabulous supersized vintage Italian advertising poster from 1926 for Bitter Campari. We love the striking design by Marcello Nizzoli which delivers maxi...

17th century Italian oil painting of Mary surrounded by cherub angels framed with a 17th century Italian pediment and fluorite, pyrite, chalcedony, jasper, and barite natural specime...

Very rare collection of 27 pieces produced by Franco Pozzi Ceramiche based on a design by Gio Ponti.

"Porta nel Vestibolo dell'antica Università dei Lanaioli - Studio al Vero del Capitello" A rare extra-large reproduction print, printed on engraving paper with an antique star press and watercolored by hand representing an antique capital...

Oval Black Floral Inlay and Gold Leaf Painting Handmade by Cupioli Italy. We present an exclusive oval wall painting, handcrafted by our artisans using the ancient Italian technique ...

Prints from the Collection Botanique Vegetables representinga group of three different types of artichokes enriched with green colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different ve...

Beautiful squared wall mounted tile plate in colored ceramic representing three fishes by the Italian artisti Giovanni De Simone. Giovanni De Simone was a great Sicilian artist...

Italian midcentury modern design very large decorative ceramic wall tray designed by the Italian artist Ulisse Pagliari, background with rough workmanship de...

Beautiful print that is part of a series of four, representing an ancient Italian roman vase of Musei Capitolini in Rome. It is printed with an anti...

Elegant hand-colored print representing a beautiful fish "La Onagre Demoiselle del'Amerique", framed by a small gold leaf line. This print is made with a special handmade cotton pape...

Decorative Mid-century Chinese fan in paper decorated painted wooden structure. Decoration on gold leaf, of swans, herons and plants. very stylish.

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing "Lilium Bulbiferum". This botanical style print is available in 6 different natural representations to create a bright and joyful compo...

Italian mid century modern enamelled metal primary school sign, 1960s Convex oval sign made of enamelled sheet metal with a white background and black border. The upper section featu...

An Italian Rococo period framed still-life oil on canvas painting from the late 18th century, depicting a colorful bouquet. Created in Italy during the third quarter of the 18th cent...

Impressive Petucco & Tolio, Nove, Italian ceramic vino wall art plate, superbly strong color palette and artwork A very large and striking piece of...

Print from the Collection Botanique Vegetables representinga group of three different types of artichokes enriched with green colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different veg...

Lovely pietra dura panel by Alfredo Buccioni Scene of two doves connected by a pearl and malachite bow. Housed in a gold frame.

A rare extra-large reproduction print, printed on engraving paper with an antique star press and watercolored by hand representing an antique capital. The capital's from a collection...

Italian mid-century modern advertising sign Philips in metal, 1950s Rectangular wall-mounted advertising sign made of enameled sheet metal. It features a blue background with the "PH...

Beautiful print that is part of a series of two, representing 2 different views of an ancient Italian vase of Villa Ghigi. It is printed with an antique press and colored by our best...

Elegant hand-watercoloured black silhouette print representing Chess Knight, printed on aged paper. This series is composed by 3 different representations to create a bright and joy...

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Fuchsia Otello Screen. Nature has always been a source of inspiration for our hand-decorated furn...

A miniature pear in Pietra Dura technique attributed to Richard Blow for his Atelier in Montici Italy. Made ca' 1960's in the original period frame. Plaque measures overall - 5.75w"x...

An antique pair of Grand Tour intaglios in wooden frames with a total a 72 medallions. Wear consistent with age and use. circa 19th century, Italy.

Midcentury Italian orientalist wood bar cabinet in gold and black lacquer, 1950.

Elegant hand-watercolored print representing Corallium Rubrum in red nuance, Image reproduced from ancient and famous illustrations. These prints are available in 2 different represe...

The white marble background with the inlaid title “MARMI EX ALTRE PIETRE ANTICHE” which includes small oval and rectangular marble and porphyry specimens.

Extra large Roman vase printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, umber highlights, and matte black details. Light brown mat...

This set of twelve hand-decorated porcelain plates, as a whole, forms the figure of Eva. You can use the ensemble for ornamental purposes or...

Salvator Rosa last 17th century giltwood frame. Internal measurements cm 24 x 32.5 Pure example of Italian Salvator Rosa gild wood frame of 17th century. "Salvator Rosa" is the famo...

Print from the Collection Botanique Vegetables representinga group of three different types of artichokes enriched with green colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different veg...

Mid-Century marquetry artwork depicting a seaside-costal scene, made in Italy. Marquetry as a modern craft is becoming rarer, today it's most commonly produced on furniture pieces. A...

A very fine and Large Italian 18th-19th century oval-shaped oil on canvas titled "The Triumph of Venice" After the original work by the master 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...

A circa 1950's Italian wall decoration panel depicting a group of flowers on dark background. Polished finish. Measurements: Height: 26" Width: 20" Depth: 1"

A large Italian ceiling panel made of hand crafted Walnut, enhanced with caryatid and acanthus scrolls, in good condition. The antique wall relief, décor represents the Rococo time period...

A magnificent and very rare pietra dura plaque made by Giovanni Montelatici in Florence, Italy, c. 1910. The painting is a mosaic of hardstones and semi precious stones and is of t...

19th century Italian School oil on canvas of Madonna and child. Gilt frame.

Large hand-decorated ceramic plate, signed by Sicilian artist Corrao (Giovanni Corrao). Corrao, a well-known Sicilian ceramist. Stylized female figure in expressionist style. Hand-pa...

Elegant hand-watercolored print representing Corallium Rubrum in red nuance, Image reproduced from ancient and famous illustrations. These prints are available in 2 different represe...

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Moro Screen. Nature has always been a source of inspiration for our hand-decorated furnishings. We...

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...

Exceptional set of eight iconic Fornasetti porcelain decorative plates featuring the celebrated Lina Cavalieri surrealist motifs in striking black and white designs. This curated col...

Extra-large art print of a Japanese "KAGA" vase. Printed by hand on engraving paper with an antique star press. Completely hand-coloured by our skille...

Morbelli Porcelain wall plate “Talismano Di Carlo Magno” 1988 Italy.

Reinterpreting sacred Byzantine mosaics, these refined tiles from the Bisanzio Collection are made of Pietra Fenice stone and Bianco Fenice stone with honed finish, enriched with circles in polished pink marble, rectangles in polished azul macauba marble, and copper strips with a satin finish. The name Hagia translates to "holy" and celebrates ancient sophistication. Each single tile...

Impressive Hand-Tinted Albumen Mammoth Plate Print of Basilica San Marco in Venice, circa 1880. Attributed to Paolo Salviati (1818-1894). Possibly the largest photographic image ...

Large Scale Framed Italian Silk Embroidery Textile Panel, dating from the 18th century. The textile displays a finely balanced symmetrical design of scrolling acanthus vines and abundant blossoming flowers in soft tones of rose, blue, green, and gold on a neutral background. Each stitch reveals the exceptional craftsmanship typrical of Italian embroidery of the period, likely originating from a noble household or religious setting. The embroidery is bordered with its original fringe edge and preserved under a custom gilt frame, lending the piece both protection and an elegant presentation. This panel will be perfect as a statement piece in a hallway, dining room, or above a console. This framed antique...

Beautiful print that is part of a series of two, representing 2 different ancient Italian vases of Villa Giustiniani. It is printed with an antique press...

One of six fun vintage study for an Italian classic garden. Probably some scenographic preparation. Really pleasure scenery and nice vivid color on the blue and white scale, circa 1940.

This rare set of seven antique wall panels from Italy features delicately hand-painted sports and leisure scenes, executed on wooden panels. Each composition offers a charming glimps...

Original vintage travel poster published by ENIT promoting Italy as The Ideal Land For All Sports featuring a stunning Art Deco style design by the notable poster artist A. M. Cassan...

"Lady-Fan" Wall Ventaglio scuplture mirror Introducing Sabrina's breathtaking wall mirror, a dazzling new creation unlike any other. Like a free dance movement, Sabrina Landini pays...

Morbelli Porcelain wall plate “Gioielli Italici” 1987 Italy.

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Moro Screen. Did you know that a group of butterflies is called a "Kaleidoscope"? The name comes ...