LATE 16th CENTURY PAIR OF OIL PAINTINGS ON WOODEN PANELS

This stunning oil painting on wood panel depicts Mercury, the messenger of the gods, soaring above the Temple of Vesta in Tivoli. At the center of the composition, Mercury is portray...

Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting flowers in a glass vase with gold highlights. Within a wooden frame and gilt pastille MEASURES: overall 76x65, work 60x50 cm

Stunning oil painting on canvas, probably created by a talented Florentine artist active in the 19th century. The work is clearly inspired by the famous painting by the famous painte...

Beautiful fragment of a tempera painting on a gold background, applied on a wooden panel, depicting Saint Thomas Aquinas. The saint is dressed in the Dominican habit, characterized b...

Description The mourning of Christ Oil on Board cm 47,5x65,5 The panel can be traced to a sixteenth-century artist and active along the Adriatic route. The old attribution, referrin...

This impressive 16th-century oil painting on a slatted wooden panel depicts *The Holy Kinship of Mary*, a revered religious subject in Northern Renaissance art. The composition bring...

Attr. to Girolamo Siciolante known as da Sermoneta (Sermoneta, 1521 - Rome, 1575) Adoration of the Shepherds Oil on copper, 39 x 29.5 cm Frame 47 x 39 cm The refined taste, the refined poses, the definition of the anatomies, the vibrant light, allow us to identify for this painting the hand of a Mannerist painter active during the sixteenth century. In particular, the composition and stylistic research allow us to attribute the panel to Girolamo Siciolante, known as da Sermoneta (1521 - 1575). His first training took place under the guidance of Leonardo Grazia known as da Pistoia (1502 - 1548). Later he settled in Rome where he was able to see the painting of Raphael and Michelangelo from life and where he was first a pupil and then a collaborator of Perin del Vaga...

Frans Franken III and aid, Adoration of the Magi Good condition The oil painting on wood, with a gold background, depicts an Adoration of the Magi. The Magi are dressed in sumptuous silk and brocade dresses; they wear precious hats and jewelery. The richness of their garments is in contrast with the humility of the Holy Family and of the other characters who, around curious, observe the scene. The hut is simple, made of wood and straw: above it shines the Comet, symbol of the divine event. In the distance, a group of wayfarers walk along a path that is lost on the horizon, blending into the gold of the bottom. The representation proposes a traditional iconography, in which the painter inserts some details that he lends himself to symbolic interpretations. Among these is the appearance of the Magi, who from the XIVth century differs iconographically: the wise astronomers represent the homage to Jesus of the then known parts of the world, namely Africa, Asia and Europe. To the right of the Magi, in the foreground, sits a monkey, considered a demonic creature and a symbol of lies and sin. It is depicted on the sidelines, as a defeat, next to a fragment of a classical column: ruin alludes to the end of paganism, of the old world that collapses with the advent of the new one, marked by the birth of Christ and liberation from the Original Sin. On the ruins he climbs the ivy, symbol of the immortality of the soul. The work is attributable to the workshop of the Flemish painter Frans Francken III...