Baroque Wall Decorations
BAROQUE STYLE
The decadence of the Baroque style, in which ornate furnishings were layered against paneled walls, painted ceilings, stately chandeliers and, above all, gilding, expressed the power of the church and monarchy through design that celebrated excess. And its influence was omnipresent — antique Baroque furniture was created in the first design style that truly had a global impact.
Theatrical and lavish, Baroque was prevalent across Europe from the 17th to mid-18th century and spread around the world through colonialism, including in Asia, Africa and the Americas. While Baroque originated in Italy and achieved some of its most fantastic forms in the late-period Roman Baroque, it was adapted to meet the tastes and materials in each region. French Baroque furniture informed Louis XIV style and added drama to Versailles. In Spain, the Baroque movement influenced the elaborate Churrigueresque style in which architecture was dripping with ornamental details. In South German Baroque, furniture was made with bold geometric patterns.
Compared to Renaissance furniture, which was more subdued in its proportions, Baroque furniture was extravagant in all aspects, from its shape to its materials.
Allegorical and mythical figures were often sculpted in the wood, along with motifs like scrolling floral forms and acanthus leaves that gave the impression of tangles of dense foliage. Novel techniques and materials such as marquetry, gesso and lacquer — which were used with exotic woods and were employed by cabinetmakers such as André-Charles Boulle, Gerrit Jensen and James Moore — reflected the growth of international trade. Baroque furniture characteristics include a range of decorative elements — a single furnishing could feature everything from carved gilded wood to gilt bronze, lending chairs, mirrors, console tables and other pieces a sense of motion.
Find a collection of authentic antique Baroque tables, lighting, decorative objects and other furniture on 1stDibs.
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Style: Baroque
Library Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
20th century still life of leather books, a brass candlestick and an inkwell with quill pen painted in an impressionistic style. Oil on canvas and signed in the lower right corner.
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20th Century American Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
1890 Antique French Tapestry Arts & Crafts Ceremonial 8x9 239cm x 257cm
Located in New York, NY
1890 Antique French Tapestry Arts & Crafts Ceremonial 8x9
7'10" x 8'5" 239cm x 257cm
1890
"This is an outstanding very large antique French tapestry- This room size piece incorporat...
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1890s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Antique French Tapestry Large Oversized Tapestry 1900 Wool & Silk 6x7 178x203cm
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Rare Fountain and scenery Large Tapestry 5x7 1920
Circa 1920
"A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting a scenic river including a fountain and a larg...
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Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
European Carved Gilt And Polychrome Coat Of Arms
Located in Essex, MA
Shield form with a crown over a coat of arms with different symbols, the frame carved and gilded in the baroque style. From the Michael Kittredge collection.
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1790s European Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Walnut, Pine
Beautiful Baroque Tole Toleware Gilded Wall Console Shelf Germany 1850s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Offered is an absolutely stunning, 1850s or older wall console or shelf. Minor patina gives this piece a classy statement. Made of hand craft wood and gilded. Use just as a decorativ...
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1850s German Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
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.
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...
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Early 1900s Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Important Italian School 17th Century "The Healing of Tobias".
Located in Madrid, ES
Italian school; second third of the 17th century. "The Healing of Tobias".
Oil on canvas.
Relined.
very good condition
Dimensions: 117.5 x 107 cm; 130 x 118 cm (frame).
This canvas ...
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Early 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
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Paint
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Fruits Noblemen 1890 Wool & Silk 6x7 183 x 206cm
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Arts & Crafts Noblemen 1890 Wool & Silk 6x7
183 x 206cm
A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting a scene of noblemen dressed up amongst exotic fruit...
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1890s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Pair Beautiful Baroque Style Stucco Plaster Cherub Angel Heads, Antique Italy
Located in Nuernberg, DE
These beautiful Baroque plaster cherub angel heads are an antique from Italy. Made of plaster and hand painted, these cherub angel heads feature intrica...
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19th Century German Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
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Plaster, Stucco
Early 18th century Flemish antique tapestry 10x13 Verdure Wool & Silk 297x384cm
Located in New York, NY
Early 18th Century Antique Flemish Tapestry Fine Verdure Wool & Silk
9'9" x 12'7"(10x13) 297cm x 384cm
Circa 1720
"This is a very fine Authentic Antique Flemish wool & silk Tapest...
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Early 18th Century French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
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 Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Italian 17th Century Oil on Canvas Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns, Mignard
By (circle of) Pierre Mignard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine Italian 17th century oval oil on canvas "Head of Christ Crowned with Thorns" Circle of Pierre Mignard (French, 1612-1695) within...
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17th Century French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
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Canvas, Giltwood
Italian School Table of the 16th Century "Crucified Christ with the Virgin"
Located in Madrid, ES
Italian school table of the 16th century
"Crucified Christ with the Virgin, Saint John and Mary Magdalene"
Oil on board
Period frame 16th century ( gold frame parts )
Measures: 41cm ...
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16th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
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Paint
Attributed to Giorgio Lucchesi, Oil on Canvas "Madonna & Child" After Murillo
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Attributed to Giorgio Lucchesi (1855-1941) A large and impressive early 20th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Bartolomé Esteban Murillo...
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1910s Italian Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Magnificent Flemish Historical Tapestry the Bull Hunting, 17th Century
Located in Rome, IT
outstanding tapestry in wool and silk, Bruxelles, second half of the 17th century.
Depicting a detailed scene of The Bull Hunting. On the background of the landscape the Monument of ...
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17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Tapestry
1920 Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Village Scene Framed 3x4 102cm x 122cm
Located in New York, NY
1920 Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Village Scene Framed 3x4
"A magnificent antique wool & silk French tapestry depicting a village scene amongst verdure."-ARS
Size
3'4" x 4'...
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Masque Vase Exotic Flowers 4x5 122x 142cm
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Masquerade Vase Exotic Flowers 4x5 1920 4' x 4'8" 122cm x 142cm
"A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting an ornate vase full of flowers....
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
6 Fruit Plates Collection by Villeroy & Boch Septfontaines, Luxembourg, 1970s
Located in Andernach, DE
Lovely set of 6 fruit or breakfast plates by Villeroy & Boch, Septfontaines, Luxembourg around 1978.
Off-white porcelain with antique style decoration of traditional fruit, here a le...
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Mid-20th Century Luxembourgish Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Pair Early 20th Century Italian Carved and Painted Wall Hanging Heraldic Shields
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a game room or a study with this large and colorful pair of antique plaques. Crafted in southern Italy circa 1920, each bombe panel features "Trompe l'oeil" scrolled and sca...
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Early 20th Century Italian Baroque Wall Decorations
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Pine
Antique Late 17th Century Square Flemish Verdure Landscape Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous antique late 17th century Flemish verdure landscape tapestry depicting a beautiful and rich summer scene of a countryside with lush trees and vegetation, with two ...
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17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Tapestry, Wool
Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration Great Large Heavy Art Table Book
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Baroque and Rococo Architecture and Decoration
Book by Alastair Laing, Anthony Blunt, and Christopher Ernest Tadgell.
A study of a period in art ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Paper
17th century French School "Virgin and Child (Virgin of the Rosary)"
Located in Madrid, ES
17th century French School
"Virgin and Child (Virgin of the Rosary)"
Oil on canvas (Fragment, original canvas, tension bands, restorations)
47.3 x 37.9 cm
This canvas was probably...
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17th Century French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Antique sculpted oak frieze or wall ornament, France ca. 1900
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1900 / sculpted frieze / oak / Antique / Baroque / Rococo
A beautiful baroque style frieze or wall ornament in oak. Hand carved in France around 1900.
A very decorative p...
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Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
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Oak
Fine Oil Reproduction Painting of Vermeer's Masterpiece the Woman in Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Beautiful reproduction Vermeer painting in a gilt frame. This piece is oil on canvas. Canvas is secured to a wood frame with nails. Craquelure throug...
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20th Century American Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Antique German Hand Carved Wooden Deer Head on Carved Wall Plaque, 19th Century
Located in Barntrup, DE
19th-century Baroque-style German hand-carved wooden deer head on a carved and hand-painted wall plaque.
An impressive antique hand-carved wall-hang...
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Late 19th Century German Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
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Metal
8 Baroque Style Erotic Prints of Compromised Aristocrats & Soldiers, I
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
8 Baroque Style Erotic Prints of Compromised Aristocrats & Soldiers, I (I is our inventory tag) Italy, 20th Century Prints,
This suite of eight Italian Baroque-style erotic prints ...
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20th Century Italian Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Venetian Canal Scene Set in Marbleized and Giltwood Frame
Located in Nashville, TN
Oil on board Venetian Canal Scene looking towards the mouth of The Grand Canal with Della Salute to one side .
Typical in the Grand Tour style of 18th ,19th and 20th centuries ..
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Mid-20th Century Italian Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Birds Wool & Silk 1920 6x7
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Birds Wool & Silk 1920 6x7
6' x 7'3" 221cm x 183cm
"A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting birds amongst a verdure setting. Beautiful colo...
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
17th C. Italian Old Master Painting Madonna, Child, St. Anne, John the Baptist
Located in Vero Beach, FL
17th century Italian old master painting Madonna and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist.
Important Tuscan School Old Master painting in oil on a hand shaved wood panel. ...
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Late 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
1960 Vintage Art Nouveau Tapestry Abstract Fish Handwoven 2x4
Located in New York, NY
1960 Vintage Art Nouveau Tapestry Abstract Fish Handwoven 2x4
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1950s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
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Wool
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Birds Wool & Silk 1920 6x7
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Birds Wool & Silk 1920 6x7
6' x 7'3" 221cm x 183cm
"A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting birds amongst a verdure setting. Beautiful colo...
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
17th Century Pair of Flemish Tapestry ( 2' x 3'4" - 62 x 102 )
Located in New York, NY
17th Century Pair of Flemish Tapestry ( 2' x 3'4" - 62 x 102 )
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Mid-17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Antique Square Late 17th C. Brussels Baroque Mythological Tapestry Mars Venus
Located in New York, NY
A Museum Quality piece, this is an exquisite example of a late 17th/ early 18th Century Brussels Baroque Mythological Tapestry. It is a complete piece with its original border, measu...
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Late 17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Tapestry, Wool
Italian 18th Century Oil on Canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco
By Giovanni Lanfranco
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very fine Italian 18th century oil on canvas "Madonna and Child" after Giovanni Lanfranco (Italian, 1582-1647). The young Virgin Mary attending to...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Library Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Atlanta, GA
20th century still life of leather books, a brass candlestick and an inkwell with quill pen painted in an impressionistic style. Oil on canvas and signed in the lower right corner.
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20th Century American Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Blue Hand Painted Baroque Cherub or Angel Portuguese Ceramic Tile or Azulejo
Located in Coimbra, PT
Gorgeous blue hand painted Baroque cherub or angel 18th century style Portuguese ceramic tile/azulejo
The tile painted in cobalt blue over wh...
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Late 20th Century Portuguese Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Delft, Faience, Terracotta
Blue Hand Painted Baroque Cherub or Angel Portuguese Ceramic Tile or Azulejo
Located in Coimbra, PT
Gorgeous blue hand painted Baroque cherub or angel 18th century style Portuguese ceramic tile or azulejo
This tile painted in blue over white in ...
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Late 20th Century Portuguese Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Delft, Faience, Terracotta
English School 17th Century "Portrait of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham"
By Europa
Located in Madrid, ES
English School 17th Century
"Portrait of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham"
Oil on canvas
66X53 cm size without frame
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham (Brooksby, 28 August 1...
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17th Century English Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
15th Century Ferronerie Silk Velvet
Located in Canterbury, GB
A panel of voided Olive Green silk velvet showing the Ferronerie pattern
Centre panel of a dismantled Chasuble
Florence or Venice dating from second half of the 15th Century
The s...
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15th Century and Earlier Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Velvet
17th Century Portuguese Tile Panel
Located in Madrid, ES
Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world
17th Century Portuguese tile panel.
Restored
56cm x 56cm
14cm x 14cm tiles
17th Century
Shortly afterwards, these plain white ti...
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17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
17th Century Portuguese Tile Panel
Located in Madrid, ES
Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world
17th Century Portuguese Tile Panel.
Restored
56cm x 56cm
14cm x 14cm tiles
With certificate of authenticity and export issued by ...
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17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Antique Large Mid-17th Century French Aubusson Historical Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous antique late 17th Century French Aubusson historical tapestry depicting a beautiful and rich summer scene of a countryside with lush trees and vegetation, with a m...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Tapestry, Wool
18th Century, Painting with Still Life by Maximilian Pfeiler
Located in IT
Maximilian Pfeiler (active Rome, circa 1694-circa 1721 Budapest)
Still life with peaches, grapes, figs and pomegranate
Oil on canvas, Measures: cm H 63,5 x W 47. With frame cm ...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Matteo Lovatti (Italian, 1861-1909) 19th-Century Oil on Canvas "Church V State"
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...
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19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Alberto Carlieri, Capriccio with Christ and the Adulteress, Oil on Canvas
By Alberto Carlieri
Located in IT
Alberto Carlieri (Italy-Roma 1672-1720), "Christ and the adulteress",
Oil on canvas, with frame cm H 115 x L 151 x 6.5, only canvas H 98.5 x L 135 cm...
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Late 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
An 18th Century European School Painting
Located in ARMADALE, VIC
An Portrait of a Lady and her Dog, 18th Century, European School
The oval painting within its original oak leaf and beaded gilt-wood frame, oil on canvas.
Height: 101 cm Width: 85 ...
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18th Century English Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Antique Tapestry Verdure Tapestry Large Handmade French Tapestry, 1920
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Rare Fountain and scenery Large Tapestry 5x7 1920
circa 1920
"A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting a scenic river including a fountain and a ...
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
1900 Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Game 7x7 Square 196cm x 201cm
Located in New York, NY
1900 Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Game 7x7 Square 6'5" x 6'7" 196cm x 201cm
"This is an outstanding antique French Aubusson tapestry in a fantastic large square size- This wo...
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Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Antique French Aubusson Tapestry Hermes Mercury Wool & Silk Square 6x6 176x178cm
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Aubusson Tapestry Birds Wool & Silk Large 5x9 1900
4'10" x 9'2" 148cm x 280cm
"This is an outstanding antique French Aubusson tapestry in a fantastic large square size- This wool & silk treasure incorporates impeccable attention to detail- Depicting a scene of Hermes and Mercury...
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Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Madonna con Bambino e San Giovannino Dipinto Religioso Italiano 1650 circa
Located in Milano, MI
Dipinto religioso italiano di Scuola Lombarda Madonna con Bambino e San Giovannino circa 1650 con una buona composizione equilibrata ed armoniosa al centro della quale si trova il Bi...
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Mid-17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Antique 18th Century Madonna in Sorrow Oil on Canvas, Florentine School
Located in Doha, QA
This antique stunning portrait of Madonna in Sorrow came out from a Palazzo in Florence and an absolute eye catcher. The colors and details are incredible and very typical for an Ita...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas
Adolf Constantin Baumgartner Stoiloff Oil on Board Cossacks Warriors on Horsback
By Adolf Constantin Baumgartner-Stoiloff
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Adolf Constantin Baumgartner Stoiloff (Austrian/Russian, 1850-1924) a fine oil on board "Charging Cossack Warriors on Horseback" within an ornate giltwood frame, circa 1890
Born in 1850 in Linz (Austria) Stoiloff died in Vienna in 1924. According to a research of Russian literature, he studied in the 1880s at St. Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts. He was very well known for his Russian horse...
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Late 19th Century Russian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
17th Century Flemish Aubusson Tapestry
Located in Houston, TX
The 17th Century Flemish Aubusson Tapestry portraying a woman traveling or walking with her child is a captivating depiction of everyday life...
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17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Tapestry French Rustic Style Aubusson Baroque Louis XV, France
Located in Saarbruecken, DE
Tapestry French Rustic style Aubusson Baroque Louis XV, France.
Mid-20th century, machine woven.
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1960s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Tapestry
1900 Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Game 7x7 Square 196cm x 201cm
Located in New York, NY
1900 Antique French Tapestry Wool & Silk Game 7x7 Square 6'5" x 6'7" 196cm x 201cm
"This is an outstanding antique French Aubusson tapestry in a fantastic large square size- This wo...
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Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Death Comes to the Table Memento Mori by Giovanni Martinelli c. 1670
Located in Milano, MI
Italian painting from 1600 Banquet with Figures Memento Mori by Giovanni Martinelli, titled Death Comes to the Banquet Table, vanitas circa 1635. The oil-on-canvas painting is inspi...
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Late 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Oak
"An Elegant Hawking Party" A Pair of Paintings by August Querfurt
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Pair of old master paintings by August Querfurt (1696-1761). Oil on panel, one signed with initials in the lower left. Two scenes depicting hawking parties from the 18th century. ...
Category
18th Century Austrian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
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...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Spanish Baroque Polychrome And Giltwood Coat Of Arms
Located in Essex, MA
Oval shield with coat of arms and shell carving flanked by carved scrolls, the whole flanked by men with turbans , the base with the head of a soldier. This item is illustrated in 'Spanish Polychrome...
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1680s Spanish Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Walnut, Giltwood, Paint
17th Century Portuguese Tile Panel
Located in Madrid, ES
Largest collection of Portuguese tiles in the world
17th Century Portuguese Tile Panel
Restored
56cm x 56cm
14cm x 14cm tiles
With certificate of authenticity and export issued by ...
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17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Porcelain
Late 17th Century Italian Heraldic Coat of Arms Tapestry, Lucca, circa 1690
Located in Encinitas, CA
Aristocratic style is presented by this tapestry; a heraldic coat of arms formed by woolen cloth of different colors applied in collage on blue woolen cloth. Lucchese (Lucca) manufac...
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Late 17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Linen
Oil Painting on Canvas Titled "Checkmated" by Alex De Andreis
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Dimensions-
Frame: H: 32 3/4in W: 39 1/4in D: 2 1/2in
Painting: H: 25 1/2in W: 32 1/4in
This Oil Painting On Canvas Titled "Checkmated" by Alex De Andreis (1880-1939) is truly ...
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Late 19th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Noblemen Royalty Verdure 5x9 158cm x 272cm 1920
Located in New York, NY
Antique French Tapestry Verdure Noblemen Royalty Verdure 5x9 158cm x 272cm 1920
A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting a scene of noblemen amongst incredible, exotic verdur...
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1920s French Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
18th Century Antique French Tapestry Verdure Wool & Silk 7x11ft 213cm x 323cm
Located in New York, NY
18th Century Antique French Tapestry Verdure Wool & Silk 7x11ft 213cm x 323cm
"This is very fine antique Flemish tapestry made of wool & silk depicting noblemen beneath a large verd...
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1690s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool, Silk
Pair Of Baroque Paintings Of Christ, 17th Century, Italy
Located in Lisbon, PT
A pair of Italian baroque paintings of Jesus Christ:
- An 18th Century painting that depicts the Holy Family, Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and the elderly Saint Joseph, with the An...
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17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Copper
Antique 17th Century Green Flemish Verdure Landscape Tapestry with Birds
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous full color antique 17th century Flemish Verdure landscape tapestry depicting a beautiful and rich summer scene of a countryside with lush trees and vegetation, and...
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17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wool
Antique Old Master Floral Still Life Oil Painting Flowers 18th Century Italian
Located in Bradenton, FL
A Beautiful Italian Still Life oil painting on old canvas of a brass urn holding a bouquet of assorted flowers set on a ledge. 18th or ...
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18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
Copper Rondel Plaque of Peter Paul Rubens
Located in Atlanta, GA
Molded copper rondel plaque of the great Flemish Master Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens is depicted in a high-relief bust, facing three-quarters right with a br...
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Early 20th Century Swedish Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Copper
After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By 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 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...
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19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Wood
Portrait of a monk, Spanish school 18th century
Located in Valby, 84
captivating oil on canvas portrait of a monk, likely created in the 18th century by an artist of the Spanish school. The sitter is depicted with solemn intensity, his expressive fea...
Category
18th Century Spanish Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Italian 65" H Armorial Shield Coat of Arms, Hand Painted Wood, Naples 18Th.C.
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Just arrived, this spectacular 65" H, Rare large Italian 18th Century, could be late 17Th. C., Hand Painted Wood Armorial Shield, Coat of Arms., from Naples, Italy
This exception...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood
Three 18th Century Baroque Style Polychrome Cherubs
Located in Wormelow, Herefordshire
A set of three mid 18th century baroque style polychrome cherubs, each with hooks to the reverse. Ready for hanging on an interior wall as desired.
Over 270 years old, these quaint ...
Category
Mid-18th Century English Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Wood, Paint
Attribution of Mattia Preti " Salvator Mundi " 17th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Attribution of Mattia Preti " Salvator Mundi " 17th Century
Italian painting from the 17th century
depicting the figure of the infant Jesus as Salvator Mundi (Savior of the World),...
Category
17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations
Materials
Paint
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