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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
Antique 17th Century Flemish Verdure Landscape Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous antique square 17th century flemish Verdure landscape tapestry without figures in a beautiful and rich summer scene of a countryside with lush trees and vegetation...
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17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wool

17th c. French Aubusson Tapestry Fragment
By Isaac Moillon
Located in Wichita, KS
French Baroque tapestry fragment depicting a scene from Greek mythology, Poseidon and Amphitrite, circa 1690. Attributed to Isaac Moillon, Pari...
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17th Century French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Tapestry

Early 17th Century French Verdure Landscape Tapestry with Birds
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous antique Early 17th century Flemish Verdure landscape tapestry depicting a beautiful and rich summer scene of a countryside with lush trees and vegetation, and bird...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Silk

Charming child portrait of Swedish king Charles XI from the late 17th Century
By David Ehrensrahl
Located in Knivsta, SE
Extremly charming oil painting. Child portrait of the Swedish king Charles XI (1655-1697) from the late 17th Century in the circle of David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl (1628-1698). No frame....
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Late 17th Century Swedish 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

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Wool

Unique & Powerful Italian Antique Crucifix w. a Stunning Bronze Corpus of Christ
Located in Lisse, NL
Large antique Baroque crucifix with stunning details and an amazing patina. Because of the quality in the detail or because of the perfect anatomy o...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Bronze

Decorative Giltwood Church Sunburst early 20th Century
Located in Hastings, GB
A circa 1920 highly decorative water gilded Italian sunburst, hand carved wooden rays with a brass sun face to the centre. Original hanging hook to the rear. Width 55cm, Depth 5cm.
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1920s Italian Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations

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Brass

Amazing Tiziano Vecellio's Circle of the 17th century "Ecce Homo"
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 Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Paint

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

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Tapestry

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

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Copper

Antique Large Framed Pietra Dura of Jesus
Located in MC Leansville, NC
An Antique Large Framed Pietra Dura of Jesus is an intricate artwork made using semiprecious stones to depict a detailed image of Jesus Christ. The stones form His features and robes...
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Late 18th Century Unknown Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Precious Stone, Wood

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

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Canvas

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

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Canvas, Oak

18th Century, Venetian School Italian Landscape Oversize Painting
Located in Milano, MI
Early 18th century Italian Venetian inland painting, a large size oil on canvas Baroque mountain landscape with stream, bridge, waterfall, wayfarers and a village in the background. The woodland is animated by figures, a caravan with horsemen fishermen. This monumental Italian Baroque landscape painting has a strong impact and an excellent composition balance, as it depicts in the center the luminous perspective of a fortified village, whose side wings consist of two mountain rocks with dark wooded vegetation crowded by characters, horsemen, paths, streams.On the left side, with respect to the observer, there is a path that runs alongside a stream that flows into a waterfall in the center of the composition. from a caravan of travelers on foot and on horseback traveling along it in both directions: going up the slope on the mountainous coast you can see a church and a village near the top. The right part of the painting depicts a more sparse and dry vegetation, painted in the chromatic tones of ocher, inside of which there are dead plant, dry branches and a smaller number of figures on the rugged mountain. The iconographic inspiration of this wooded representation seems to be in the large trunk of the withered conifer in a central position, which represents a dead tree, as a? reminder of the transience of everything in life, whose phases are summarized in the two mountainous coasts. In the background a village painted in light and soft blue colors, in stark contrast to the previous scene, seems  to reassure and project us into a future season. With a suggestive theatrical effect, more than 250 cm wide, this Baroque Italian painting comes from a private collection of Milan, the canvas has been lined and shows minor painting retouches at a horizontal seam of the canvas. It is unframed, it has just a wooden profile covering the canvas edge. It is an antique Italian landscape, the perfect opportunity to make a statement. Get the perfect size painting for a great living room, to create that eye-catching focal point. You can make an impact with a single large work by hanging this early 18th century Italian Baroque painting...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas

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

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

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

19th Century traditional Russian Icon “Mother of God, Joy of All who Sorrow"
Located in Meulebeke, BE
Russia / 19th century / Religious Icon / oak / Baroque / Antique Religious Russian Icon “The Suffering Mother God”, 19th Century in tempera on panel from the estate of a collector. ...
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19th Century Russian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Oak

17th Century Old Master Painting, Large Battle Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in Bradenton, FL
17th Century Large Old Master Battle Scene Painting. Flemish School, circa 1610 - 1680. Oil on canvas painting depicts a dynamic battle scene fi...
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17th Century Dutch Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas

19th C. Heraldic Watercolor of a Composite Noble Achievement, Signed E. Wenzel
Located in Atlanta, GA
A finely rendered heraldic watercolor on paper depicting an elaborate composite coat of arms, signed lower right “E. Wenzel” and likely executed in the late 19th century. The work pr...
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19th Century German Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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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 17th Century Shortly afterwards, these plain white ti...
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17th Century Portuguese Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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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

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Porcelain

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

"Saint Sebastian" by Carlo Saraceni 19th Century Italian School with Video
Located in Madrid, ES
"Saint Sebastian" by Carlo Saraceni 19th Century Italian School with Video Oil painting on canvas, Italian school, 19th century, depicting Saint Sebastian in the style of Carlo Sara...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Paint

Pair Italian Baroque Style Erotic Prints of Compromised Monks & Nuns
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Pair Baroque Style Erotic Prints of Compromised Monks & Nuns, Italy, 20th Century Prints,  This pair of vertical Italian Baroque-style erotic prints from the 20th century provides a...
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20th Century Italian Baroque Wall Decorations

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Wood, Paper

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

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Canvas, Wood

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

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

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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

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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 or azulejo This tile painted in blue over white in ...
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Late 20th Century Portuguese Baroque Wall Decorations

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Delft, Faience, Terracotta

Della Robbia Style Sculpted Portrait Plaque of Jeweled Maiden, by Cantagalli
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Della Robbia style sculpted portrait plaque of Jeweled Maiden, by Cantagalli An impressive late 19th century example, subtly detailed, three dimensional circular portrait...
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Late 19th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Pottery

Large 1870 Original Religious Painting, Cherubs, Signed by S. Barber, Spain
Located in Miami, FL
1870 original religious painting. Cherubs Signed by S.Barber Interior measurements: 48.42in x 39.76in Frame: 2.75 in.
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Paint

Antique Tapestry Verdure Tapestry Large Handmade French Tapestry 5X7, 1900
Located in New York, NY
Antique Verdure Tapestry French Tapestry Handmade Antique Large Tapestry 1900 Measures: 5.4" x 7.4". "A magnificent antique French tapestry depicting magnificent verdure and greenery. This piece includes rare black colors. Beautiful colorway, and an easy, chic addition to any space."-Antique Rug Collection Size 5'4" x 7'3" 163cm x 221cm Serial ID # 10095k Design Verdure Origin France Age circa 1900 Category Antique Pattern Verdure/Floral/Human Figures Material 100% Hand Woven Wool Foundation Material Cotton Color Beige, Green, Black, Brown, Pink, Ivory Quality Great Condition Great condition, minute low area About Us~ Welcome to Antique Rug Collection. Your #1 Source for handmade Antique Rugs & Tapestries at great prices, curated by leading industry expert. We are a 6th Generation antique rug shop with 48+ years of experience working with designers, private clients, dealers, and really anyone looking for a unique antique rug at a great price. We've made an imprint selling rugs...
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Early 1900s French Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Wool

The eternal wedding man by Carl Spitzweg Vintage Anri Moroder Carving
By ANRI
Located in Nuernberg, DE
This vintage ANRI Carl Spitzweg wood carving is a beautiful piece of art that captures the essence of a wedding proposal. Crafted circa 1960s, this relief carved wood figurine is a t...
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1960s Italian Vintage Baroque Wall Decorations

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Wood

Antique Late 17th Century Antique Franco-Flemish Verdure Landscape Tapestry
Located in New York, NY
This late 17th century Franco-Flemish verdure tapestry, signed RAET, worked in fresh colors, depicting animals in a wooded river landscape with a bird of prey attacking a rabbit in t...
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Late 17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wool

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

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Tapestry

Small Italian 18th Century Baroque Silvered Wall Mirror
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
An 18th century Italian Venetian-style wall mirror with original silvered patina.
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Mid-18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Gesso, Giltwood, Wood

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

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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

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Porcelain

The Blue Boy by Thomas Gasinborough Print-Made in Italy
By (circle of) Thomas Gainsborough
Located in Medina, OH
This a print of the iconic The Blue Boy by Thomas Gainsborough from around 1770. It is believed to be a portrait of Jonathan Buttali, the son of wealthy ironmonger. This print come...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Brass

17th Century, Italian Painting by Pier Francesco Cittadini, Jacob and his Family
Located in IT
Pier Francesco Cittadini (Milan, 1616-Bologna, 1681) "Jacob and his family go to Egypt" Oil on canvas, cm 109 x 190 (canvas only) The valuable painting, made in oil on canvas, depicts Jacob and his family go to Egypt and we believe it can be, given the high quality painting, autograph work of Italian Pier Francesco Cittadini (Italy Milan, 1616 - Bologna, 1681) made after 1647. The work, in excellent condition is accompanied by a coeval frame in wood finely carved and golden. The scene depicted, which was confused with the Flight to Egypt in the past years, is instead identified with the biblical episode of Jacob’s journey. In the foreground, reading the painting from left to right, we see a caravan composed of animals, including donkeys, dromedaries, goats, dogs and horses and people, women, men and slaves, who carry on their journey along the banks of a river, following a path that to the right, would seem to lead to the through of a bridge. In addition to the watercourse is described an environment characterized by large rocks and impervious come far to cover the entire verticality of the canvas. On the left, in the distance, we see the tail of the caravan that runs along the steep path. Large trees enliven and harmonize the environment, as well as white and grey clouds characterize the predominantly clear sky and illuminated on the right by sunlight. The story is told in the Bible, Book of Genesis, 30, 25, passage in which is described the flight of Jacob from Haran after the contrasts with Laban, father of his wife Rachel. Jacob is the third great patriarch of the Bible. From his descendants originate the twelve generations of the people of Israel. He is the son of Isaac and Rebekah, who led him to flee from the wrath of Esau to Haran to seek refuge from his brother, Laban. At his uncle’s house Jacob met his daughter Rachel. As soon as he saw his cousin, Jacob was taken. Jacob will stay seven years in the service of Laban to marry his beloved Rachel. But Laban, with a deception, will give him in marriage first Lia, the least beautiful eldest daughter, and only after another seven years the splendid Rachel. From his first wife he will have several children, while Rachel will give birth to the beloved son, Joseph, who will become viceroy of Egypt. After years of service, Jacob asked to be paid with every dark-coloured garment among the sheep and every spotted and dotted garment among the goats. Laban accepted and sent away from his sons all the leaders of that kind. So Jacob took fresh branches of poplar, almond and plane tree, and flayed them, and put them in the troughs. The optical suggestion induced the goats and the sheep to conceive and give birth to dark, striped and dotted garments. He also ensured that all the strongest and healthiest leaders of the flock of Laban would drink near the barked branches, thus assuring a genetic superiority to his part of the flock. His flocks grew numerous and strong and he became richer than his relative, arousing envy. It was clear that Laban would not respect him much longer. At the suggestion of the Lord, Jacob decided to return to Canaan. Trying to avoid any possible dispute, he left with his family while Laban was absent for shearing sheep. But when, three days later, his uncle returned home, he became angry, feeling offended because Jacob had gone secretly and had not allowed him to greet his daughters and grandchildren. In addition, his teraphim, statuettes, or idols, which depicted the family deities, had disappeared. After 7 days of pursuit, Laban and his men reached Jacob’s group on Mount Gilead, in the mountainous region west of the Euphrates River, where his uncle and grandson had a stormy conversation. The younger man was outraged at being accused of stealing idols and told Labano to rummage through his family’s tents at will. Neither of them could know or even imagine that it was Rachel who took the idols and hid them in the saddle of the camel. During the search, she sat down firmly on the saddle, apologizing for not being able to get up, «because I usually have what happens to women» (Gen 31:35). So the loot wasn’t discovered. The author of this work was inspired by the composition of an engraving by Stefano Della Bella (1610-1664) of circa 1647. The engraving by Stefano della Bella bears the title "Iacob sur ses vieux jours quitte sans fascherie pour voir son filz Ioseph, sa terre et sa patrie" and is signed on the bottom left "Stef. of the Beautiful In. et fe." while on the right it is declared "Cum privil. Regis", that is with license of the king. Stefano Della Bella (Italy - Florence, May 18, 1610-Florence, July 12, 1664) was born in a family of painters, sculptors and goldsmiths and was left early orphan of his father sculptor, he dedicated himself first to the art of goldsmith at the school of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione and Gasparo Mola, then turning his attention to drawing and engraving. He soon began drawing figures and copying the etchings of Jacques Callot, which inspired his early works. Under the protection of the Medici, in particular of Don Lorenzo, cadet son of Grand Duke Ferdinand I, Della Bella has the opportunity to make study trips to Rome, where he stayed from 1633-1636; In Rome he met French engravers and publishers of prints such as Israël Henriet and François Langlois, who influenced his decision to move to Paris in 1639, four years after the death of Callot. In Paris he soon reached, thanks to the engravings commissioned by Cardinal Richelieu, the success also worldly; he frequented courtiers, theatre artists and writers, while refusing too oppressive honors. In 1646-1647 he continued his travels in the Netherlands to Amsterdam, Antwerp and Dordrecht. He returned to Florence in 1650 and resumed working under the protection of the Medici court, working for his patrons. In 1656 he became a member of the Academy of Apatists. The painting object of this study is reasonably attributable to Pier Francesco Cittadini, or Pierfrancesco Cittadini, called the Milanese or the Franceschino (Italy - Milan, 1616-Bologna, 1681) as some exemplary stylistic comparisons proposed to follow can prove. Pier Francesco Cittadini was an Italian baroque painter, mainly active in Bologna. His artistic training first took place with the painter Daniele Crespi...
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Mid-17th Century European Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Giltwood

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

17th Century, Italian Painting with Battle Between Christian and Turkish Cavalry
Located in IT
17th century, Italian oil on canvas painting with battle between Christian and Turkish cavalry The oil on canvas painting depicts a battle between Christian and Turkish cavalry. C...
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Mid-17th Century European Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas

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

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Delft, Faience, Terracotta

Abduction of Europe Oil on Canvas, 18th Century, After Veronese
By Paolo Veronese
Located in Madrid, ES
Rapture of Europe Oil on canvas. 17th century, following the model of VERONESE, Paolo Caliari (Verona, 1528-Venice, 1588). Oil on canvas showing a scen...
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18th Century European Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Other

Botanical Print, Corona Imperialis Polvanthus, After Basil Besler
Located in Bradenton, FL
The hand-colored botanical print, Corona Imperialis Polyanthos or Crown Imperial Lily, was originally by Basil Besler (1561-1629) a Nuremberg, Germany pharmacist, and published in t...
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20th Century German Baroque Wall Decorations

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Paper

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

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Canvas

18th Century Copy of "Port Scene with the Villa Medici" after Claude Lorrain
By Claude Lorrain
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
A late 18th century copy of a painting by Claude Lorrain titled, "Port scene with the Villa Medici" the original painted in 1637 and now hanging in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Th...
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Late 18th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas

18th Century German Pair of Similar Antique Baroque Sandstone Wall Reliefs
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A rectangular, antique pair of similar German Baroque wall reliefs with centered cartouche, made of hand carved sandstone in good condition. The large detailed panels are particulari...
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18th Century German Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Sandstone

Late 17th C. Franco-Flemish Biblical Tapestry Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau
Located in New York, NY
This is a gorgeous antique Late 17th Century Franco-Flemish Biblical Tapestry depicting the Reconciliation of Jacob and Esau. The tapestry illustrates the Old Testament story of Jaco...
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Late 17th Century Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Tapestry, Wool, Silk

Late 17th Century Italian School, Head Of A Young Man
By Guido Reni
Located in Kent, Dover
A late XVII Century Italian School head of a young man (Circle of Guido Reni). A sensitively rendered portrait figure in profile, echoing soft modelling and restrained elegance chara...
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17th Century Italian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Fruitwood

Large Flemish 17th-18th Century Baroque Figural Tapestry "A Royal Courtship"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine and large flemish 17th-18th century Baroque figural tapestry "A Royal Courtship" depicting an allegorical courting scene of a young princess meeting her prince at the watchful eye of a mesmerized queen standing behind her. A young girl supports the princess' dress train...
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Early 1700s Belgian Antique Baroque Wall Decorations

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Wool

The Infant Margarita Teresa After Diego Velazquez Portrait Painting Framed 32"
By Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez 1
Located in Dayton, OH
Still Life Portrait of the Infant Margarita Teresa, After Diego Velazquez. The oil painting is on canvas and signed lower right. Framed in Baroque manner with ornate detail, scallo...
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Late 20th Century Baroque Wall Decorations

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Canvas, Paint

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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