Gesso Wall Decorations

Baroque capriccio with architectural ruins and figures, an early 18th century Italian painting showing an imaginary landscape with Roman ruins and figures, an early Italian oil-on-ca...

A large antique ecclesiastical style painted canvas housed in a gilt gesso timber frame. Showcasing painted details, this handsome panel displays initials to the centre surrounded b...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

Pair of English Nobel figural oil on canvas oval portraits of male posing with hunting canine companions and female sitting in garden posing with flowers and lamb. Paintings have bee...

Each with shaped shelf over a tapering base pierced and elaborately carved with foliate C-scrolls and rocaille decoration. Collection of Mario Buatta, New York, NY.

A striking, richly hand carved, gessoed, and gold gilded Italian roundel frame. The whole, intricately carved with a relief of a braided, floral and fr...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

Marie Philips-Weber (German, 1845-1942) oil on canvas "Reading a Book" depicting a young maiden reading a book, within an ornate gilt and gesso frame. Signed: M. Weber Philips (l/r),...

Contemporary artistic mirror. Octogonal shape sculptural composition, hand carved. Original creation of materials and colors. Limited edition, number 1 out of 8. In the back, signed ...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

Pair of French gilt wood and gesso decorative carved foliage and gadrooned hanging wall brackets, Early 19th century.

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...

Exceptional 19th century landscape painting by Important American artist William Keith. Titled "Harvest". Barbizon School oil on canvas painting featuring figures at harvest with cart and oxen. Amazing luminescent sky. Signed lower left corner "W. Keith '96". Retains original museum quality gilt frame. Canvas measure 30"H 50"W. Accompanied with period correct Stereograph black and white photograph depicting actual painting in a parlor with handwritten pencil title "Parlor, Berkeley, Cal. '97". This is a museum quality work of art. William Keith (1838-1911) William Keith became in the late 19th and early 20th centuries a leading Northern-California landscape artist. In fact, he was so well known that he is referred to as the "Dean of California painters" and "California's Old Master." Born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, Keith came to New York with his family and, apprenticed to a wood engraver. In 1859, he moved to San Francisco where he worked for an engraver and later set up his own engraving business. Studying with Samuel Marsden Brookes in 1863, he determined to become a painter. He married artist Elizabeth Emerson and did watercolor painting with her guidance. In 1868, he became a full-time painter, and that same year was commissioned to paint scenes along the Columbia River including Mount Hood. By August 1869 he had sold enough paintings to finance an extended journey to the East Coast and Europe including Dusseldorf, Germany throughout most of 1870, studying with Albert Flamm. After a visit to Paris, he expressed great admiration for "the modern school of French landscape painting including the Barbizon School. During the winter of 1871-1872, the Keiths lived in Boston where they shared a studio with William Hahn. Keith's work received critical acclaim there and in New York at the National Academy of Design. In 1872, he returned to San Francisco. A friendship with naturalist John Muir exposed Keith to many remote places and in-depth knowledge of nature. During the 1870s, he painted several "epic" eight by ten-foot High Sierra views. He also visited Alaska, and his paintings of Alaska were exhibited upon his return to San Francisco in a show at the Bohemian Club, titled 'Dreams of Alaska'. Keith's Alaska works are significant because they are not close transcriptions of actual scenery, but rather are fantasies inspired by Alaska. They are important as they represent a major break from the documentary tradition in landscape painting of Alaska, as they show an interest in capturing its spirit versus just the topography. In 1891, he shared his studio for several weeks with East Coast Tonalist George Inness, Sr. [1825-1894]. Both men painted in a similar style and were followers of the mystical teachings of Swedenborg. Among the locations where Inness and Keith painted together were Monterey and Yosemite, and it was reported they discussed art from every possible angle. Under Inness' influence, Keith painted more than ever in a Barbizon-influenced vein with many sunset and twilight scenes. Keith’s first wife died in 1882, and in 1883, he married Mary McHenry, the first woman graduate of Hastings Law School. They soon went to Europe, and Keith studied portrait painting in Munich with consultations from J. Frank Currier...

A very fine Italian oil on canvas titled "The Solo Violinist" by Luigi Da Rios (Italian, 1844-1892), depicting an interior 18th century room scene of a single violinist player; withi...

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A fine French oil painting on canvas featuring a still life of a vase of flowers in a Montparnasse frame. The Montparnasse frame takes its name from the Parisian district where it w...

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For sale a charming European late 18th, early 19th Century Georgian/Regency era oil on board portrait painting of a youthful person, possibly a scholar, believed to have been painted...

Contemporary artistic mirror. Sculptural composition, hand carved. Original creation of materials and colors. Unique piece (One of a kind). By Pascal & Annie Leniau, year 1995.

Contemporary artistic mirror. Sculptural composition in the shape of a face, hand-carved. Original creation of materials and colors. Limited edition, number 7 out of 8. In the back, ...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

A beautiful set of two antique French prints, with romantic scenes, framed (behind glass) in antique gilded frames. The prints are executed in sepia, a range of brown tones. The fram...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

Pair of American figural oil on canvas portraits in original gilt wood and gesso molded edge frames, New York, 19th Century John Clark Hollister, NY 1818-1905 Martha Lyman Hollister,...

Peter Adolf Persson, born 25th September, 1862 in Kvistoftavägen, Scania, died January 15, 1914 in Tyringegatan, Skåne, was a Swedish artist. Persson studied at the Academy of Arts i...

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...

Nicely detailed. Made of Gesso and giltwood. Hand carved and hand painted.

Relief carved, gessoed and 22-karat gold gilded, Italian bishop's crest featuring three bees amidst foliate scrolls, drapery swags, and tassles.

Pair Gilt Carved Brackets. Antique English gilt carved wood and plaster fluted wall brackets with acanthus leaf edge detail above fanned fluted console with toupie foot terminal. Eng...

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Pair of giltwood wall bracket.

1926 Oswald Poreau oil painting of river scene in a giltwood and gesso frame. The frame measurement is D=4 inches, H=43 inches, W= 49 inches. The measure...

ANTIQUE ORIGINAL GEORGE III SILK AND GILT THREAD NEEDLEWORK EMBROIDERY A charming depicting of a young woman holding a lamb in a landscape. The artist has expertly used different t...

Devotional, architectural and rustic or old world art makes a statement in one piece. This stunning vintage wall sculpture depicts the intricately detailed façade of a Spanish colonial-style Catholic mission, rendered in high relief with painted accents and architectural depth. Likely crafted in Mexico or Central America in the mid-20th century, the church features classic elements like Corinthian columns, a decorative arched door, and religious niches...

Wonderful oval stipple engraving after James Gillray Showing the meeting of Colonel Gardiner with his daughters before the Battle of Prestonpans. Set against the background of sterl...

A 19th century large oil on canvas painting, a mountain landscape signed and dated on the lower right Ed.Cohen Weimer, 1866, depicting a beautiful mountain landscape, an Italian Alps...

Pair of plaster wall brackets depicting a goat or ram, made in the early 20th century Ø cm 16 Ø cm 16 h cm 22 Antique ceramic shelves are fascinating objects that combine functiona...

American portrait oil on canvas of a young ship captain holding a spyglass with a sailing ship, crew in rowboat, and gulls in lower background mounted in the original decorative gilt...

Wonderful painting of nudes titled "Oreades". Oil paint on gesso relief. On board. Great colors and technique. Painted in an Art Deco style. It ...

Rare 18th century giltwood framed carved and polychrome wax silver and gold decorated figure of saint Catherine of Alexandria icon, with original gilt frame. The rarity of this piece...

Antique ca. middle of 19th hand - painted Russian Orthodox Icon of Saint Barbara / Святая Варвара. Tempera on Wood with Gilt elements. Abbreviated inscription in archaic Russian " Св...

Discover Lynnea’s new Architectural Abstract series, where Agnes Martin–inspired shapes float gracefully across textured canvas boards. Each piece is thoughtfully layered with soulfu...

Discover Lynnea’s new Architectural Abstract series, where Agnes Martin–inspired shapes float gracefully across textured canvas boards. Each piece is thoughtfully layered with soulfu...

Discover Lynnea’s new Architectural Abstract series, where Agnes Martin–inspired shapes float gracefully across textured canvas boards. Each piece is thoughtfully layered with soulfu...

Discover Lynnea’s new Architectural Abstract series, where Agnes Martin–inspired shapes float gracefully across textured canvas boards. Each piece is thoughtfully layered with soulfu...

Discover Lynnea’s new Architectural Abstract series, where Agnes Martin–inspired shapes float gracefully across textured canvas boards. Each piece is thoughtfully layered with soulfu...

Discover Lynnea’s new Architectural Abstract series, where Agnes Martin–inspired shapes float gracefully across textured canvas boards. Each piece is thoughtfully layered with soulfu...

Raoul Morren, a self-taught artist and curator, explores a spectrum of artistic mediums, including collage, painting, photography, sculpture and video. Drawing profound inspiration f...

Italian hand painted gesso classical wall relief in a custom gilt wood frame under glass.

Richard Wagner Bas Relief Wall Decoration, Stucco, Spain, 1930s-1940s. Art Nouveau bas relief depicting Richard Wagner - german composer and musician -. Sculpted portrait using molde...

Attributed to August Stephan Sedlacek (Austrian/German, 1868-1936) "The Violin Presentation" Oil on Canvas depicting an interior 18th century scene of...

This ceiling to floor large-scale painting is an intimate portrait of Lazard's workspace and creativity. "That is how I spend my time all the time," says Lazard. Part of the genius o...

Two original English watercolor/drawings circa 1854,1855, Ellen Dumbleton, from her sketchbook, Humble House and Summer house, Hall Grove. Beautifully pr...

Great image of a bloodhound presented in a distressed antique gilt frame. Lithograph after Cpt. brown with original hand color. Published, 1847.

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Melt Wall Décor GAWPI01 Echoing the sculptural fluidity of our Melt Entry Table, the Melt Wall Décor is a dynamic and elegant installation that brings movement and contrast to your ...

Pair of highly desirable, Italian, circa 1785, scrolling brackets in metal and wood. Both gessoed, and 22-karat gold gilded. The pair embellished with acanthus leaf sculptures and te...

Beautifully hand carved, gessoed and 22-karat gold gilded, wood angel with flowing hair, extended wings and scrolling, acanthus leaf drapery.