Double-Leaf Painted Door Decorated on Both Fronts: Cabinetmaking and Decoration in Venice during the Second Half of the 18th Century
2. Descriptive Catalogue Entry (Academic English)
Classification
A double-leaf interior passageway door, painted en suite on both obverse and reverse faces.
Chronology and Cultural Milieu
Circa 1770–1780. Venetian School /...
Furniture '700
Eighteenth-century Lombard barocchetto burl walnut commode – Brescia art
Lombard Barocchetto commode, 18th-century burl walnut chest of drawers, Brescian Rococo furniture, Italian showpiece commode, antique book-matched walnut veneer, historical fir wood joinery.
Art-Historical Commentary
An...
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Majestic Renaissance Panel: Holy Family with St. John the Baptist – Workshop of Andrea del Sarto (16th C.) – 149x113 cm – XRF Analysis Certified
Introduction
We present this exceptional private Florentine devotional work, created in the first half of the 16th century in the prestigious workshop of Andrea del Sarto (1486–1530), one of the...
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Fiat Lingotto portable engine scale model: wood and iron industrial heritage
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The scale model...
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A scholarly catalogue entry on Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout’s maternal portrait (1850)
Technical summary & catalogue raisonné entry:
Object Title: Portrait of a Noblewoman with Child (Bourgeois Motherhood)
Artist: Jacobus Josephus Eeckhout (Antwerp, 1793 – Paris, 1861)
Date: 1850 (signed and dated...
The murano glass 20 th century
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Pair of eighteenth-century Lombard neoclassical walnut burl nightstands
Technical Catalogue File of the Work
Typology: Pair of nightstands / bedside cabinets (night-time storage furniture).
Period / Style: Full Neoclassicism, second half of the eighteenth century (circa 1775–1790)....
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The seventeenth-century Tuscan walnut center writing desk: a masterpiece of Florentine Baroque
Academic catalogue raisonné (synthetic description)
Typology: center writing desk (patrician library table)
Period: 17th century (Baroque era)
Origin: Italy, Tuscany (Florentine area, grand ducal workshop influence)
Material: solid walnut wood...