Wooden sculptures
Pair of 17th Century Venetian Baroque Gilded Wooden Caryatid Vase Bearers
Technical and Descriptive Object Metadata
Object: Pair of Sculptural Vase-Bearers / Torchères (Caryatids / Canephorae)
Period: 17th Century (High Baroque)
Geographical Attribution: Venetian School / Venice (Italy)
Medium: Carved softwoods...
Wooden sculptures
Candelabra angels with removable wings: a scholarly catalog and structural analysis of a pair of seventeenth-century wooden sculptures
Artifact description
Typology: Pair of specular, liturgical d'apparat candelabra sculptures (ceroferari angels).
Dating: First three decades of the 17th century (circa 1600-1630).
Cultural sphere: Northern Italian workshop, regional Lombard-Venetian borderland...
Wooden sculptures
Sculptural group by Brescian woodcarvers 15th Century
Sculptural Group by Brescian Woodcarvers (15th Century)
This historical-artistic datasheet explores one of the most significant masterpieces of fifteenth-century Lombard wooden sculpture. This structural group represents an exceptional benchmark of...
Paintings '700
LORENZO DE CARO 1719- 1777)
Oil on canvas, in a beautiful antique frame, depicting 'The Triumph of Mordecai', of noble provenance, dating from the middle part of the 18th century. The work is signed Lorenzo...
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 '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...