Italian Paintings

Italian antique Oil pastel painting of a landscape, 1932 Oil pastel painting representing a natural landscape: two trees in the foreground and mountains in the background. In a finely worked dark wood guillochè frame. 1932. Signed and dated lower right. Very good conditions, it has light marks on the frame. Measurements in cm 42 x 5 x 33 H This fantastic painting...

Portrait of a woman Framed and glazed Signed and dated on the reverse 1979 Italy.

Oil on panel of symbolist and metaphysical inspiration depicting a young man inserted in a strong context of almost geometric composition. The portrait is not meant to be decorative ...

An evocative early 20th century oil painting, executed in the expressive manner of Maurice de Vlaminck, depicting a tranquil rustic village nestled within a moody, wooded landscape. ...

A most attractive and exquisitely executed Italian 19th century oil on canvas painting of a beautiful country estate. The painting is set within a most ...

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Italian modern colored tempera work of art painted signed by G. Maffei, 1970s Abstract painting in tempera, painted with thick brushstroke with various colors, with chromed steel frame. Work signed by G. Maffei, around 1970. Good conditions. Measures in cm 54x4x54cm Beautiful painting, with large brushstrokes and numerous colors. The particularity of blue contrasts perfectly with the frame which makes this work of art even more important and unique. Dating back to the seventies, with this work you will feel like taking a leap...

Follower of Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta (Venice, 1682 - there, 1754) Head of St. Peter Oil on canvas applied on cardboard, 36.5 x 34.5 cm With frame 42.5 x 41 cm The claves Regni Coelorum, an essential Petrine attribute, shyly peek out in this painting, with the sole purpose of allowing the character to be recognized. The wholeness of attention is indeed conveyed to the Saint, from aching humanity and divine inspiration. Pietro is rendered with a liquid epidermis, illuminated by a pearly light that slips and drips to define the overbearing nose, cheekbones and browbone; while the vitreous humor of the eye turns bright to the sky, to investigate the highest wills of the divine mystery. The portrait, rendered here in intense monochrome, denounces the direct dependence of the present artist on the suggestions of Giambattista (Valentino) Piazzetta, one of the greatest among the eighteenth-century Venetian masters. Following an immature apprenticeship in the field of wood carving with his father Jacopo, a sculptor from Pederobba, in the Treviso area, Piazzetta retired to the workshop of Antonio Molinari...

Pair of very decorative Italian paintings, probably an old theatre set, from the 90s. Structure in old solid wood and linen canvas representing a vanity. S...

17th century, Emilian school Rural landscape with gallant scenes Oil on canvas, 37 x 47.5 cm With frame 61 x 50.5 cm The bucolic amenity of the present is reflected in the joyful gallant scenes that dot its surface. The locus amoenus described reflects on the more traditional inflection of Arcadia, which in the literary transfiguration was the scenario par excellence of the most carefree pastoral life and out of this world; the painting is therefore a forerunner of what was professed by the actual poetic academy of Arcadia which was established in Rome in 1690, but enthusiastically testifies to the feverish invitations to its acceptance, then widespread in the most avant-garde cultural salons throughout Italy. First Theocritus and Virgil later had awakened with Idilli and Bucoliche that capacity typical of the natural world to allow an escape from reality; the contemplation of perfect natural fruits that followed would have evoked in the spirits of dreaming men back to origins. The bucolic landscape was able to positively give a rhythm to material life, and constituted the concretization of a place devoid of incivility and ugliness, where only dreams, wild music and homages to fruitful nature were allowed. In the present painting widespread figures of shepherd children trace the same intent to the sublimation of earthly life, gathered in pairs, while children on the model of the ancient cherubs cheer the field with flowers and petals. The games of these and the sweet affections of the other characters are rendered through liquid and vibrant brushstrokes, flickering with a white light that opposes the dark shadow of the undergrowth. In the distance, the sky tapers with a silvery and flat brushstroke, while the vertical development of the promoters with architectures helps to introject a bright beam of light into the grassy clearing. The foliage and the turf of the landscape piece are rendered through a digital brushstroke, betraying the Italian brand of the present, influenced at the same time by the seventeenth-century European influences that then conveyed to the capital. The evocative culture of the city attracted many artists from the city of Bologna, from the Italian north but also from the territories beyond the Alps, such as Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin. The historical-artistic heritage of the Italian pastoral scenes was thus able to fill up with the more functional and particular formalisms of the charms coming from elsewhere, such as the expressive tremor of the present, similar to the contemporary French lexicon. The typological restitution from pastoral idyll, in accordance with the intrinsic stylistic qualities of the work, allows us to specify the solid belonging of the present to the Italian hand, similarly to what was then emerging in the pictorial sphere within the Emilian school. In this regard, we should recall the latent influences of two decisive foreign landscape painters who passed through the Emilian belt, such as Claude Lorrain (1600-1682) and Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665); before them, Giovanni Battista Viola...

A pair of Italian school, early 19th century, floral still lifes in Florentine frames.

Painting dated 1980 and signed by the Italian designer, inventor and painter Luciano Mattioli (1924-1994,) a very versatile and prolific artist on the Italian and French design scene...

Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793) Lying Female figure Oil on canvas, cm 46 x. 31 - With frame, cm 56 x 42 The present painting is connected by style and treated subject, in this case a young girl lying in an idyllic landscape, to the production of small pictures of pastoral subject of the Piedmontese painter Giovanni Domenico Molinari (Caresana, 1721 - Turin, 1793). Molinare was born in Caresana (Vercelli) on 19 July 1721 but after losing both his parents he moved to Turin. Here he became, from 1736, a pupil of the Academy of Drawing founded by the painter Claudio Francesco Beaumont (Turin, 4 July 1694 - Turin, 21 June 1766) where he remained as a pensioner until December 1755. Molinari was immediately engaged in the translation of the master’s sketches on cardboard used for the Regia manufacture of tapestries. His early success on the Turin art scene is confirmed by the fact that he joined the Compagnia di San Luca in 1756. In 1751 he married Margherita Peiroleri, whose brothers Pietro (engraver) and Nicolò (painter) also attended the school. Remained widower count two other marriages first with Lucrezia Elisabetta Burzio and then in 1770 with Domenica Maria Ferrero. On the death of the master in 1766 Molinari, considered by his contemporaries to be the most faithful interpreter of the master and for his elegant and Arcadian style, which clearly interprets the aesthetic taste of the court, was called to finish the works that remained unfinished, such as the altarpiece for the church of Santa Maria della Scala in Moncalieri depicting the Assumption venerated by Blessed Bernard of Baden and Saint Anthony. Molinari was also well praised by critics and Abbot Lanzi highlighted the quality of the production of historical and mythological subject for the rigorous post-marattesco classicism. In Turin he worked for Vittorio Amedeo III of Savoy as a portrait painter, executing for him eleven canvases (between 1774 and 1775), but, since 1745, he also supplied tapestry cartoons to the local Fabbrica, of which, in 1766, he became director. The production of paintings of sacred subjects is also lively, especially used in the decoration of the churches of the capital as the Assumption for the Hotel of Virtue and San Pietro Regalado and San Benedetto il Moro for Santa Maria degli Angeli ( Torino) He also painted tempera and oil cartoons for the same church, on the occasion of the beatification of Pacifico da San Severino (1787) and, for that of San Francesco di Paola, when Gaspare de Bono...

Circle of Antonio Amorosi (Comunanza, 1660 - Rome, 1738) Portrait of young people Oil on canvas, 87 x 67 cm The painting depicting this portrait was made by an artist activ...

Painting on wood "Medieval sunset", a glimpse of an ancient italian village. The painter is Tuscan, well known in Italy. O/6469.

A fantastic vintage Boho 1960s original oil on canvas. A chic Abstract Figural composition of a woman in repose. A soft focus in muted colors. Really striking. Made in Italy. Signed ...

A window on the Italian sea: Naples sea in a magic painting signed by Renato Criscuolo, the famous painter born and living in that town. - O/6526.

O/8216 - Relaxing countryside landscape with idyllic atmosphere of Southern Italy - signed by Painter: Giovanni Marelli I don't know why the painter depicted the peasants as blacks ...

An 18th century saint painted portrait in a frame with silver flowers, leaves and bronze dore sunburst trim. Beveled oval glass. Circa,1750, Italy.

Francesco Fergola (Naples, 1801 - there, 1875) Pair of Views of Pompeii Tempera on paper, 33 x 48 cm Frame 49 x 64 cm The two views in question are signed by Francesco F...

Ugo La Pietra, "Territorialita'" acrylic on canvas, 2013 Signed and dated by artist on front and rear. Coded and archived by Ugo La Pietra archives. "Certificate of Authenticity" av...

Oil on canvas portraying a woman dressed with a black feather cape circa 1936 Signed Barchi . Renzo BARCHI (1902-1991) Born in Livorno 1902 . Died i...

A Roman landscape oil on canvas painting with figures by Andrea Locatelli (Roma 1693-1741) Locatelli was amongst the group of landscape painters in R...

antico paesaggio - scuola romana - olio su tela - fine 18 secolo - dipinto antico paesaggio - scuola romana - olio su tela - fine 18 secolo - dipinto ...

Rare pair of paintings on black marble ( one more gray ), representing the Adoration of the Child by angels, the other The Virgin, the Child and Saint John the Baptist and the lamb n...

An outstanding Italian 19th century oil on canvas still life painting. The highly detailed painting depicts a vibrant and charming bouquet of flowers in a vase, against blue sky. The...

"View of Pompeii" Oil on canvas. Signed Alessandro La Volpe (1820-1867) Period frame

Oil on panel by Teodoro Wolf ferrari executed in 1934 measuring 23.5x16 cm. The most investigated theme is landscape. The motionless, rarefied atmospheres, accompanied by the play of...

Michaelangelo Meucci (1840–1909) was an Italian artist based in the city of Florence. He was known for his paintings of birds, including dead game birds and animals. This grand maste...

'GESTO', quadro eseguito nel 1977, manifattura Italina. Il pittore con il gesto della pittura crea un'esaltazione grafica e metaforica alle azioni. Il quadro mostra la grande padrona...

A stunning set of five 20th Century oil on marble tile paintings of gun dogs, featuring an assortment of sizes of different artworks. Dating to the 1920's, these were painted by the ...

Antique portrait with golden frame, depicting an ancestor of a noble family. hand-drawn and hand-made by an artist who signs himself: A. Laugien, dated 1851. Measures cm W 125 x H 170 x D 17. Precious gilded frame, entirely hand-sculpted. Interesting piece of furniture to embellish the walls of the most beautiful rooms...

Monumental oil painting Francesco Mazzola, called Parmigianino - Bow-carving Amor Masterful monumental painting, oil canvas on solid basswood....

Italian School Portrait of a Neapolitan Youth, Oil on Canvas, c.1930s A spirited and sensitively painted oil on canvas portrait of a young Neapolitan boy, rendered in the Italian Sc...

Pair of paintings depicting scenes of peasant life. Made in oil on panel these two oval-shaped paintings depict typical rural scenes with roosters and peasants. Dated late 1800' wi...

Painted with impasto paint (Italy-second half of the 20th century). The painting is unsigned and bears no gerenze on the back. An impasto technique can be recognized in which the spe...

Oil on canvas portrait of bearded man. Refined portrait probably depicting, given the simple clothes, a man of humble origins with a thick beard. The portrait is unfortunately unsi...

18th century, Piedmontese, School Scene with spinner Measures: Oil on canvas, 50 x 60 cm Frame 70 x 80 cm.

19th century Castel Sant'Angelo Oil on canvas, 49 x 58.5 cm The analyzed painting portrays a pleasant view of the city of Rome. Taken from the bank of the Tiber, Castel Sant'A...

Oval painting depicting the dance of cupids. Romantic oil painting on canvas with an oval shape and gold leaf gilded frame. The extraordinarily refined and highly decorative painti...

Antique 19th century Pompeii landscape Grand Tour watercolour with mount Vesuvious in the background. It was customary for European noble to...

A wonderful pair of decorative Italian 19th century Louis XVI st. oval reverse painted on glass still lifes. The pair are framed within giltwo...

A wonderful and most decorative pair of Italian 19th century Gouaches framed within Giltwood and patinated Wood frames. These beautiful rectangular Gouaches depict the exquisite land...

XVIII century Rural scenes (4) Tempera on paper, 20 x 31 cm With 18th century Venetian mirrored frame, 31 x 39 cm.

Trompe L'oeil game painting on board. Birds, guns and a bugle. Italian artist and dated 1910.

Framed Sizes 13" x 15" and 10" x 12" Giani D'Oro (Italian) Lot of Two, Scenes of Naples with Vesuvius Erupting, Oil on Card, Both Signed on Front, La...

18th Century elegant portrait of noble lady with necklace and pendant inset with ruby and emerald stone. Oil on canvas.

Beautiful autumn colors abstract mountain landscape by IHP.

Antonio Bertoli (active between 1829 - 1842) Portraits of women (2) Oil on canvas, 41.5 x 31 cm With frame 52 x 42.5 cm Signed below A. Bertoli The two portraits examined here are by the hand of the artist Antonio Bertoli, a painter active in Florence between 1829 - 1842. He trained at the Florentine Academy, where in 1832 he obtained the prize for the nude in drawing. At the academic exhibitions of the following years he exhibited mainly portraits, including a representation of Nicolò Macchiavelli executed in 1837. An eclectic artist, he experimented with different genres: for the Villa Puccini di Scornio in Pistoia, in 1838, he was commissioned to create a history picture, The death of Francesco Ferrucci (Pistoia, Civic Museum), inspired by an episode of the novel Siege of Florence by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi. Instead, two religious paintings date back to the 1840s: Christ chasing the merchants from the Temple and a Virgin Mary, In the portraits analyzed Bertoli depicts two half-length women taken from a foreshortening and a frontal in close pose, characterized by very similar Mediterranean features. In the first painting the woman, taken from the front, looks directly at the viewer. The wavy hair is decorated with a colorful violet and is partially covered by a white veil...

O/4665 - Pair of large wood frames with internal part in carved and gilded wood - Perfect for a pair of paintings or mirrors.

Rare organic painting (actually it's an unusual technique done with objects left to rust over and over and over)adorned by handmade frame. Very eco friendly and fabulous design!

A striking vintage Boho 1960s original oil portrait on canvas. A richly colored portrait of a young woman. An Italian composition signed and dated by the artist. Acquired from a Palm...

Vittorio Cajani's painting entitled La Forza Del Destino. Vittorio Cajani was a Turin painter born in 1848 who saw his greatest output in the second half of the 19th century. His d...

A stunning vintage oil painting depicting a landscape of what I think is Venice. I would date this to around the early-mid twentieth century. It is beautifully executed and is a l...

Tuscan hand-painted metal tray, paired with other similar tray - Unusual on wall - On disposal a metal black base (only one with a good price, but there is shipping!). O/327.  

The style of Lino Piccoli, an Italian painter, is characterized by a personal interpretation of Cubism through the decomposition and recomposition of forms into geometric planes. Thi...

A beautiful pair of Italian 17th century oil painted on wood still life paintings. Each painting is set within their original mottled rectangular giltwood frames with a fine decorati...

Emilian school, 17th century Putto with rose Oil on canvas, 43.5 x 32 cm - with frame 45 x 32.5 cm The figure of the putto, when equipped with specific attributes, lends it...

A beautiful wonderfully executed Italian 19th century Neo-Classical oil on canvas ceiling painting. The elongated octagonal shaped painting depicts se...

A striking Italian 19th century oil on canvas painting in its original giltwood frame. The painting is framed within a beautiful and most elegant mottled giltwood border with a fine ...