Florence - Mixed Media

Emmanuel Cocard. Fairy Tale Scene Of A Knight With A Young Woman On Horseback. Fairy tale scene of a knight abducting a young woman on horseback. Behind them, we see dark silhouett...

Fiat: Marco Silombria's automotive advertising project. Using the mixed technique: between drawing, collage and applications, Marco Silombria manages to create a visual effect of great communication. Dimensions with passpartout cm 89 x 69 Dimensions without passpartout cm 65 x 49 The drawing-collage on paper is applied with a passpartout on a large sheet of cardboard (the measurements indicated are with and without passpartout). Not without irony and taking advantage of pop culture colors, it presents two small machines like 2 skates on muscular male legs. Marco Silombria was a pupil of Emilio Scannavino, collaborator of Armando Testa in Turin, creator of all the advertising for Fiat, Facis, Superga, Defonseca and other large Italian companies from the 70s to the 90s; creator of works with a strong Pop imprint. Later he had been one of the founders of the CGSS agency together with other important advertisers such as Silvio Saffirio, Gagliardi and Giorgio Caponetti. He signed several successful campaigns: from the one for Gallo rice to the Fiat 127, to the posters for the Gruppo Finanziario Tessile. In turn, he became a painter, in the 1980s, and devoted to an openly and decidedly homoerotic art...

The swimmer. Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2014) Painted on paper, mixed technique Hand signed lower right "Silombria". Painting represent...

This art piece is a Florentine Renaissance period fresco of late 1500 hand painted with egg tempera representing the temptation of Adam and Eve, this pivotal moment in the history of genesis is framed in an oval scrolled cartouche and flanked by architectural pillars featured as two sculptural male and female caryatids holding the entablature of the palazzo. This antique Italian old master...

This set of four antique 19th century Italian mixed media painting on paper hand made with gouache, tempera and watercolor, features several characters silhouettes acting in a theater play. These fine artworks are very unusual, they probably were sketches for theatrical costumes and sets. A rare example of Venetian 19th century theatrical figures in the scenery of Italian opera or characters of the Italian Commedia dell'arte. These four paintings featuring costume design figurines, with the characters acting in a theatrical set, are rendered through the decoupage technique mixing watercolor painting or gouache with tempera on paper. Each tiny figurine is made of paper hand-colored in watercolor, then cut and applied to an antique sheet...