Tapestries
The Samson cycle in Antwerp baroque tapestry
Concise descriptive overview
This pair of monumental wool and silk tapestries (376 x 580 cm each), woven in Antwerp circa 1675 within the renowned workshop of Phillip Wauters...
Terracotta bust of Cosimo II dei Medici
The Terracotta Bust of Cosimo II de' Medici by the Manifattura di Signa: A Historico-Artistic and Documental Analysis of Exemplar No. 524
This monumental plastic artifact, measuring 70 x 25...
Paintings '500
The birth of saint John the Baptist by Giovanni Balducci called il Cosci: a masterpiece of Florentine mannerism
Synthetic descriptive sheet
An antique oil painting on an oak wood panel measuring 87 x 101 cm (including the frame), depicting the Birth of saint John the Baptist...
Paintings '700
GASPARE DIZIANI 1689-1767
Between chronicle and capriccio: Gaspare Diziani’s clash between bandits and soldiers in the Orsi collection
Introduction: the genre of the "battle" in eighteenth-century Venice
In the panorama of eighteenth-century Venetian...
Furniture '800
Four Lombard chairs 19th century
Four Lombard chairs in lacquered and gilded wood, dating back to the Napoleonic period in Milan, have a lacquer wax stamp on the bottom of the seat hull. The seat...
Furniture '800
Lombard sofa 19th century
Lombard sofa in lacquered and gilded wood, dating from the Milanese Napoleonic era. It has a lacquer wax stamp on the bottom of the seat hull. The seat and back...
Paintings '600
Oil painting on canvas, representing a pair of bucolic landscapes of Tuscan origin, dating from the second half of the 17th century.
Oil painting on canvas, representing a pair of bucolic landscapes of Tuscan origin, dating from the second half of the 17th century. One landscape shows a luxuriant countryside, cut in...
Wooden sculptures
A Late Seventeenth-Century Venetian Candlestick
Rare late 17th-century monumental Venetian torchère in mecca-gilded wood (325 cm). A museum-quality masterpiece combining Baroque carving and structural joinery.
An extraordinary monumental Venetian candlestick from the late 17th century,...