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Place of Origin: Italian
Vintage Italian Folk Art Painting on Canvas of a Lion
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Whimsical Italian oil painting on canvas of a lion in a night sky with stars and a moon, executed in a distinctive primitive naive style. Signed on the bottom C. Barreto and noted on...
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Mid-20th Century Folk Art Italian Paintings
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Paint
Madonna With Child Italian Painting Late 17th Century
Located in Milano, MI
Madonna and Child late 1600s, oil painting on canvas from northern Italy, in good condition, within walnut frame, from a private collection in Milan. The work depicts the Virgin hol...
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Late 17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Nutwood
Antique Water Colour Attlio Simonetti 'The Music Recital' 19th Century
Located in London, GB
This is a beautiful antique watercolour entitled "The Music Recital" by Attillio Simonetti (Italian 1843 - 1925) signed Attillio Simonetti, Roma, bottom right and Circa 1890 in date...
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19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
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Canvas
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1660-1669) Reproduction GHI.M.A Authorized
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Taranto, IT
Rembrandt Van Rijn (1606-1669) Reproduction GHI.M.A Authorized
Measures:
Height 57 cm
Width 68 cm
Technique oil on canvas
The company GHI.M.A. certifies that the relief, the app...
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1660s Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$1,011 Sale Price
66% Off
Reproduction of Rembrandt's Night Watch, mixed media on canvas
By Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Taranto, IT
Reproduction of Rembrandt's Night Watch, mixed media on canvas.
Measures:
Height 136cm
Larghezza 191 cm
In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use and age...
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1970s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$2,128 Sale Price
60% Off
Madame Rimsky-Korsakov by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873, Germany)
By Franz Xaver Winterhalter
Located in Taranto, IT
Madame Rimsky-Korsakov by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873, Germany).
Measures:
Height 67 cm
Width 57 cm
Print on canvas
In good conservative condition, present signs of t...
Category
18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$847 Sale Price
41% Off
18th Century Italian Antique Oil Painting on Canvas, Madonna in prayer
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
We are pleased to present this captivating religious painting of the Italian school, painted in oil on canvas in the 18th century. This wonderful painting depicting the Madonna in pr...
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18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Perseus Rescuing Andromeda" Oil on Canvas Large Old Master Painting
Located in Bradenton, FL
"Perseus Rescuing Andromeda" Masterful Old Master Oil on Canvas Painting, Large size, framed. Painting depicts the dramatic scene from Greek mythology where Perseus, the hero, saves ...
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18th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Alfano Dardari Oil Painting on Canvas 1970's
Located in Taranto, IT
Alfano Dardari Oil Painting on Canvas 1970's.
Measures:
Height 88cm
Width 69 cm
Oil on canvas
In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use and age. (Pleas...
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$1,564 Sale Price
48% Off
Genuine 19th Century Oil Painting, Italy, Attributed to Guiseppe Guzzardi
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
Genuine oil Painting, attributed to Giuseppe Guzzardi. It has been painted in Italy Circa 1880. the frame is in wood gilted.
Category
1880s Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
$2,503 Sale Price
20% Off
Italian Abstract Expressionist Painting by Ugo Sterpini, Signed and Dated 1958
Located in Stamford, CT
Ugo Sterpini (Italian, 1927-2000)''La Lotta Sulla Duna" (The Battle On The Dune). Mixed media on canvas, signed and dated ''58'' lower right, signed, titl...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Sunflower Field C.Lipari Print on paper
Located in Taranto, IT
Sunflower Field C.Lipari Print on paper
Measures:
Height 33cm
Width 74cm
Print on paper
In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use and age. (Please see phot...
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
$240 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Oil on Canvas Seascape by Italian Artist Dino Tronchin
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous original oil on canvas seascape by Italian Artist Dino Tronchin, circa 1973. The painting is in great vintage condition and measures 24W" x 20"H x 1.5"D (canvas is 12" x 16"...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
Matteo Lovatti (Italian, 1861-1909) 19th-Century Oil on Canvas "Church V State"
By Matteo Lovatti 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Matteo Lovatti (Italian, 1861-1909) A Fine 19th-Century Oil on Canvas Titled 'Church V. State - The Fencing Lesson'. The finely detailed artwork depicting an interior tavern scene, f...
Category
19th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Oil Painting of Jesus Christ Carrying The Cross, Italy Early 18th Century
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A Religious oil painting on canvas of Jesus Christ carrying the cross on the way to his crucifixion. This European piece of art is probably 17th-18th Century. This art piece was disc...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
18th Century, Italian Giltwood & Paint Decorated Planter - Mirrored Back
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italy, 18th century.
This magnificent 18th-century Italian planter is a captivating example of Rococo Baroque craftsmanship, featuring an elegant French blue painted background that...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood, Paint
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Art Deco Period Erotic Drawings / Watercolours by Umberto Brunelleschi
By Umberto Brunelleschi
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A few beautiful works of art by the Italian artist Umberto Brunelleschi. They are female nudes, slightly erotic in appearance with a beautiful display of transparent fabrics.
Dimensions frame: 25,5 x 20 cm
Dimensions paper: 23,5 x 18 cm
Umberto Brunelleschi (21 June 1879 - 16 February 1949) was an Italian artist. He was born in Montemurlo, Italy, studied at the Accademia delle Belle Arti in Florence and moved to Paris in 1900 where he soon established himself as a printer, book illustrator, set and costume designer. He worked for Le Rire as a caricaturist and was a contributor to many of the deluxe French fashion publications including Journal des Dames et Des Modes, La Vie Parisienne...
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Early 20th Century Art Deco Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
LATE 18th-EARLY 19th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG POET
Located in Firenze, FI
Magnificent almond-shaped portrait of a young poet, painted in oil on canvas and framed in a fine carved and gilded wooden frame. At the cente...
Category
Late 18th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Antique 17th Century Madonna with Child, Rome Carlo Maratta Oil on Canvas
By Carlo Maratta
Located in Doha, QA
C. Maratta went to Rome in 1636 and became an apprentice in the Studio of Andrea Sacchi. Pope Alexander VII commissioned many paintings from him. Maratta’s paintings of the later 165...
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17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
We are Made of the Same Matter As Dream Digital Painting
By Daria Petrilli
Located in Milan, IT
A woman with a flower headdress is immersed in a dreamy atmosphere. The swamp, gray and ashen, is now behind her and she smiles as she caresses dreams of pink flamingos. This limited...
Category
2010s Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton, Wood
Pair Of Abstract Italian Art Work from the 1970´s
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A pair of mixed technique abstract Mid-Century Modern art paintings from Italy. This pair of tempera and paper on canvas has been painted by Italian Artist "Guglielminetti". These ha...
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1970s Post-Modern Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of Oil on Board Harbour Scenes Manner of Luigi Maria Galea
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Manner Of Luigi Maria Galea (1847-1917)
circa 1900
The Grand Harbour, Valetta, early morning; and The Grand Harbour, Valetta, at dusk
signed illeg...
Category
Early 20th Century Grand Tour Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Gennaro Villani (1885-1948) Amalfi Coast
By Gennaro Villani 1
Located in New York, NY
Gennaro Villani (1885-1948) Amalfi Coast, oil on canvas in painted and gilt frame, signed lower left. Italy, circa 1920. Dimensions: 27" W x 23" H x 1.25" D; sight 24.5" W x 21" H.
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1920s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"The Artist in his Studio", Oil on Canvas, Italian School, circa 1810
Located in Kinderhook, NY
A wonderful circa 1810 Italian school oil-on-canvas painting of an artist or painter in his studio seated legs-crossed in a chair facing the canvas on easel with palette and brush in...
Category
Early 19th Century Empire Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas Italian Landscape
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
We present this fantastic 19th century oil on canvas painting. The painting features the initials NP at the bottom left (see photo). Attributable to the Italian painter Nicola Palizzi...
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19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Claude Monet Les Coquelicots 1873 Reproduction Oil Painting With Gilt Frame
By Claude Monet
Located in Reading, Berkshire
Claude Monet Les Coquelicots 1873
A Quality Reproduction Oil Painting In Gilt Frame
Wild Poppies, near Argenteuil painting was created in 18...
Category
1870s Belle Époque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Florentine Baroque Style Giltwood Hand Carved Mirror Frame
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This is a beautiful hand carved and gilded mirror frame. It is a dramatic wall hanging with a stunning depth of more than 3 inches. The circa 1880...
Category
19th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
$1,838 Sale Price
24% Off
Antique Painting of Holy Mary & Child after Nicolo Barabino in Oak Gothic Frame
Located in Lisse, NL
Symbolic and meaningful work of religious art with original label on the back.
Framed oil on wooden panel, Madonna and child, after Italian Nicolo Barabino (1833-1891). The original...
Category
1890s Gothic Revival Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Oak, Paint, Wood
Madonna and Child, Classical 19th Century Painting
Located in Miami, FL
Madonna and child, Classical 19th century painting.
This lovely oil painting was purchased in Spain.
The artist is unknown.
The painting still maintains its original finish and ha...
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
Great Italian Fresco Early 1700s Dominican Fathers by Francesco Malcotto
Located in Milano, MI
Monumental early 18th-century Italian fresco depicting Dominican Friars by Francesco Malcotto, who made this painting for Milan, for the Renaissance basilica Santa Maria delle Grazie...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Late 19th Century Italian Oil Painting on Board, Path in the Woods, Signed
Located in Casale Monferrato, IT
We present this fantastic oil painting on board dating back to the end of the 19th century. The painting features the Leto signature at the bottom right (see photo). Attributable to ...
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Late 19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Poplar
Antique Trompe L'oeil Painting by Micheangelo Meucci, Florence 1867
By Michelangelo Meucci
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Antique Trompe l'oeil Painting by Micheangelo Meucci, Florence 1867
A large Trompe l'oeil oil painting depicting hunted birds. A very detailled and colorful oil painting on board pa...
Category
Late 19th Century Biedermeier Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
Giuseppe Casciaro (1861 - 1941) Villa Floridiana in the Snow, Naples 1922
By Giuseppe Casciaro
Located in New York, NY
Giuseppe Casciaro (1861 - 1941) Villa Floridiana in the Snow, Naples 1922. Pastel on paper recording very rare snowfall in Naples in the garden of the Villa Floridiana, the palatial ...
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1920s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
Italian Neo-Classic Architecture Print
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Neo-classic engravings of architecture in a gold frame (18th/19th Cent)
Category
19th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
Valentina Guido Crepax lithograph 1980s multiple 90/99
Located in Taranto, IT
Valentina Guido Crepax lithograph 1980s multiple 90/99.
The item is in excellent conservative condition, there are no major cosmetic or structural defects to report, just slight an...
Category
1980s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Paper
$741 Sale Price
75% Off
Pair of Italian 19th Century Neapolitan Gouaches
Located in Bradenton, FL
An absolutely exquisite pair of Italian 19th century Neapolitan gouaches in 20th century giltwood frames. One depicts the volcano eruption of 1822 in Naples, the other is an affluent...
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19th Century Grand Tour Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
$7,400 / set
Italian Renaissance Madonna & Child Painting
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Renaissance style (modern) oil painting of Madonna & Child in antique gold carved frame
Category
20th Century Renaissance Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique Venetian Renaissance Cardinal Ludovico Trevisan 1401-1465 Oil on Canvas
Located in Doha, QA
Ludovico Trevisan (November 1401 Venice, Italy - 22nd of March 1465) was an Italian Catholic prelate, who was the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, Patriarch of Aquileia and Capta...
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15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
18th Century, Old Master European Landscape Painting Italian School
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian School, 18th century.
A masterful example of 18th-century Italian School artistry, this Old Master landscape painting captures the sublime beauty of an idealized European co...
Category
18th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
$6,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Dolce vita" in Florence by Guido Borgianni. Italy, 1960
Located in Budapest, HU
Guido Borgianni was born in New York on June 11, 1915, to Florentine Roberto Borgianni, a leather merchant, and Sara Herreshoff, who belonged to one of the wealthiest families in the United States and became a legend in the construction of the racing boats that also participated in and won the America's Cup. Guido was not even a year old when, once his parents' marriage had foundered, his father brought him back to Florence.
Of Guido Borgianni's extraordinary gifts as a draftsman and painter, Galileo Chini, his neighbor, noticed, and he worked to see that talent refined. Thus Borgianni attended the Academy of Fine Arts under Felice Carena, a strict teacher but one who knew how to appreciate the qualities of his pupils. In the first part of his life he signed his works in black. Then, when he became a pointillist, he began to use red. Among his great admirers were Alessandro Parronchi and Oskar Kokoschka, who was captivated by Borgianni's paintings during his Florentine stay in 1949. Soffici, Saetti, Malaparte, Montale, Pratolini, and Cesare Zavattini, the screenwriter of Vittorio De Sica and Italian neorealism, all liked him very much, finding him "as beautiful as a Corot." In 1946 he exhibited at the Quadriennale in Rome. After his marriage to Simonetta Avila in 1954, his activities were enlivened by travel: in 1955 to Venice, in 1957 to Paris, from 1958 to 1962 around Italy, in 1964 to Spain, in 1971 to New York and Barbados Islands. In 1950 he was awarded a prize at the Mostra Nazionale del Fiorino in Florence, and in 1956 he was appointed Academician of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. In 1957 he was awarded First Prize at the Portrait Exhibition at Dante's House in Florence. Upon his death, deep condolences were expressed by the president of the Florence City...
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1950s Vintage Italian Paintings
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Canvas
Alfano Dardari Surrealist Clowns Painting Wall Street Stock Market Oil on Canvas
Located in Queens, NY
Alfano Dardari (Italian, 1924-1988) “surrealist clowns painting”
A fantastic 1950’s Italian oil on canvas painting depicting colorful clowns gatherin...
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20th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas
17th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Antique Religious Painting, 1650
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Splendid 17th century Italian painting. Oil painting on canvas depicting the alliance of Jacob and Laban. The subject is inspired by a canvas by Pietro da Cortona (1596-1669), preser...
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1650s Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$11,555 Sale Price
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Opium Digital Painting
By Daria Petrilli
Located in Milan, IT
Inspired by the poetry of Charles Baudelaire, this digital painting is based off a photograph of a famous German dancer from the early 20th century. In the foreground, poppy buds evoke a drug-induced state of altered consciousness, amplified by the dreamlike atmosphere of the background. A robin emerges from the woman's chest, symbolizing her obsession. Signed, numbered Limited Edition.
Year of Creation: 2015
Edition Number: 1/300
Artist’s Signature: Printed on the Canvas + original signature on Limited Edition Certificate...
Category
2010s Modern Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Cotton
$4,324 / item
Antique Oil Painting "Sacrifice to Minerva" Odoardo Vicinelli Letterfourie 18thC
Located in London, GB
A large antique oil on canvas painting entitled "Sacrifice to Minerva", circle of Francesco Solimena, attributed to Odoardo Vicinelli, dating from the mid 18th Century.
The painting depicts a man standing, behind an altar, shielding himself from a kindling fire. To the left of the altar is seated Minerva, in classical flowing white robes, surrounded by a crowd of people.
Francesco Solimena (4 October 1657 – 3 April 1747) was a prolific Italian painter of the Baroque era, one of an established family of painters and draughtsmen.
Verso: Title, describtion, inventory marks and later restoration stamp: Aitken Dott & Son, Edinburgh 15 July 1970.
Also bears an inscription attributing the painting to Odoardo Vicinelli:
Odoardo Vicinelli, scholar of Giovanni Maria Morandi, flourished about 1750
an excellent master of the Venetian and Roman Schools,
Provenance:
Formerly at Letterfourie, Morayshire, and by descent, through the Gordon family
Letterfourie House is a Georgian house in Moray Scotland, built by Robert Adam and completed in 1773 for Clan Gordon...
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1750s Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Amazing Tiziano Vecellio's Circle of the 17th century "Ecce Homo"
By Europa
Located in Madrid, ES
Amazing Tiziano Vecellio's Circle of the 17th century "Ecce Homo"
Oil on canvas, 17th century,
based on the original housed in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Dimensions: 1...
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17th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
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Paint
20th Century Oil on Canvas Italian Signed Ferruccio Rosini Seascape Painting
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting dated 1980. Oil painting on canvas signed Ferruccio Rosini (Livorno painter born in 1932) depicting a seascape in impressionist style, without authentic. Beautifully...
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Late 20th Century Italian Paintings
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Canvas, Wood
Fine Italian Landscape of Peasants at Rest, Oil on Board, Late 19th Century
Located in Toronto, CA
A wonderful Italian painting depicting peasants at rest under trees, with haystacks and farm buildings in the distance. Oil on board, late nineteenth century or early twentieth centu...
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Late 19th Century Folk Art Antique Italian Paintings
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Paint
Painting Winter Landscape Tony Studio Art Icardi 1970s
Located in Taranto, IT
Painting Winter Landscape Tony Studio Art Icardi 1970s
Measures:
Height 70,5cm
Width 89,5 cm
Oil on canvas
In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use and ag...
Category
1970s Vintage Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$818 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Signed Portrait of a Young Gentlewoman Painting
By Francesco Vinea 2
Located in Roma, IT
Francesco Vinea portrait of a woman
Portrait of Empire taste
Work by painter Francesco Vinea ( Forli 1845- Florence 1902).
Oil on panel, depicting a young woman in Empire style in re...
Category
19th Century Empire Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna Della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) 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 painted canvas depicting a seated Ma...
Category
Late 19th Century Baroque Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
$21,950 Sale Price
33% Off
Italian School, Madonna Of Divine Love, On Panel, 17th/18th Century
Located in MARSEILLE, FR
Italian school 17th / 18th century: oil on framed panel, representing The Virgin and Child Jesus, accompanied by Saint Elizabeth and John the Baptist as a child, in the foreground
A...
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Late 17th Century Renaissance Antique Italian Paintings
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Paint
Giuseppe Salvati Oil Painting on Canvas Harbor Scene
Located in Toledo, OH
Italian harbor scene by Giuseppe Salvati (1900-1968) in oil on canvas. Beautiful warm colors and an original 1960's frame. Signed in the lower left. Overall 41 1/2 x 30 1/2. Image si...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Paintings
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Paint
18th Century Oil on Canvas Framed Flemish Painting Interior Scene, 1750
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique Flemish painting from the 18th century. Framework oil on canvas depicting an interior scene of a tavern with characters of good pictorial quality. Nice size and pleasant impact painting, for antique dealers, interior decorators and collectors of old Dutch painting...
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1750s Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait Painting of Raphael Early 19th Century Italian
Located in Rochester, NY
Portrait painting of old master artist Raphael. Early 19th century Italian watercolor. Unsigned. Contemporary frame.
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19th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Paint
17th Century Venetian Oil Painting
Located in Round Top, TX
An outstanding and grand 17th century Baroque oil painting on an oval wooden panel of the Madonna and Child. Beautifully executed and stunning patina.
Category
17th Century Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Wood
Antique Oil on Canvas Painting by Francesco Bergamini 19th Century
By Francesco Bergamini 1
Located in London, GB
This is a truly splendid antique oil on canvas painting featuring a period interior scene by Francesco Bergamini (1851-1900) Italian, signed and dated 1894.
This beautiful oil pai...
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1890s Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Four Antique Italian Extreme Erotica Hand Painted Pottery Tiles of Monks & Nuns
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This set of four antique hand painted pottery tiles are all unsigned, so no specific artist can be identified, but are presumed to have be...
Category
Late 18th Century Neoclassical Antique Italian Paintings
Materials
Pottery
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By (after) 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 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.
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