Florence - Nude Paintings

Gianluca Vialli - Captain of Juventus Holding the UEFA Champions League Trophy 1995-1996 Technique: Charcoal on paper, Signed and dated ’96 Author: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - A...

Cleopatra committing suicide with the venom of the asp snake. Florentine school. Entourage by Felice Ficherelli (San Giminiano, 1603 - 1660, Florence) Oil painting on canvas . Rel...

Ivory and Ebony: two girls friends in a landscape. Art Deco Circa 1930 - 1940. Medium-large format painting from the Art Deco period.   The two girl friends.   Painting signed lower ...

Preparatory anatomical study for the figure of a man with hands on his face. Drawing of a medium-sized male nude. From the 19th century Drawing on slightly greyish colored paper. In ...

Portrait on large sheet of paper of a naked man with voluminous hairdo typical of the 1970s. Signed at the bottom by author , Marco Silombria. On the back archival stamp , certifying...

Follower of Paul Chabas (1869-1937). The Twilight / Bather. Painting representing a young girl modestly covering herself by entering the water. Technique: oil on canvas. The painting...

The young man and two old men. Pop Art parody of Tintoretto's painting. 1980s. Marco Silombria, Italian advertising graphic designer, artist and ceram...

Drawing of the male nude. Late 19th century Drawing on lightly colored paper. In very good condition. The drawing depicts a standing young man posing for an academic study of the n...

Academic study of the nude: handsome man with a beard. Nineteenth century. Mixed technique on paper: watercolor and charcoal on slightly gray colored pape...

A large-scale oil painting by Contemporary Italian painter, Daniela Astone. A master multi-figurative painting of nude women in a circle, welcom...

The painting comes with the richly carved gilded wood frame (watercolors tempera on paper, 17.7 x 24.4 inch; with frame 28.7 x 33 inch). Reclined in a relaxed position aimed to emphasize the muscular tension, the figure stands out from a warm ochre and brownish nuances landscape, blending with the colour of the environment. The attributes (a club and the Nemean lion’s skin, of which the man touches the tail) and the physical size let him being identified in the demi-god Hercules from Thebes, depicted in a moment of rest during the Twelve Labours. The only details distracting from the apparent tranquillity is the head-alert and with a gloomy look-and the club-well sustained and ready to be used. The body of the hero takes inspiration from the canons of the tradition of the Farnese Hercules, based on a strong rendering of the physical anatomy, in which also the feet-wide feet, well curved, with big toes and evident metatarsus-are giving the idea of strength and stability. The pose itself has ancient echoes recalling the relief of the Athens Archaeological Museum passing through the customs of the river allegories and by the Michelangelesque's intensity in the Medici Chapels. A direct confrontation is with the small marble of the 18th century Hercules resting, bequest of the Viscount Robert Fitzwilliam and now held in the homonym museum in Cambridge1, of wich the painting must be a study from live. The dissimilarity between our work and the sculpture is in the background, painter’s idea, that outdistance the Neoclassicism of the figure and look at the Romanticism lesson, filtered by John Constable and, most of all, by the “painter of light...

A luxuriant forest is the romantic and lyrical landscape where the dance of the nude nymphs takes place in this joyful 19th Century antique oil on canvas painting featuring a mythological scene. Dance of the Nymphs and Naiads is a myth inspired by the tales of ancient Greece and ancient Rome, a subject already much loved in the Renaissance period as an allegory of rebirth - as in one of the most famous paintings in the world the Spring by Sandro Botticelli- then reproduced throughout the neoclassicism by academic painters -due to the renewed interest in classical artworks following the discovery of archaeological sites- and taken up later, with ecological purposes and meanings, also by the Barbizon school and Impressionist artists. The present artwork – signed Vagner low left and datable to the second half of the 19th century - is closely inspired by an important work by the great Camille Corot, which is now housed at the Musée d'Orsay (Paris). This historical oil on canvas painting, featuring a joyful scene with the three graces and other dancing nymphs...