Figure of a saint

Oil painting on canvas. The saint, identifiable as a Benedictine monk with a black habit and tonsure, indicates with one hand the consecrated and illuminated host. The painting is on the first canvas.

Battle Scene Oil on Canvas Neapolitan School Italy 17th Century

Oil on canvas. Neapolitan school. The scene focuses on a particular moment of the battle, represented on the left background as a cloud of dust that cover men fighting in a barren mountain landscape; the right side is occupied by the drama of some soldiers running away while targeted: close up, under some bushes, we can see the dead body of the dummer with his horse and his drum next to him. The painting is characterized by dark and soft colors and figures with blurry profiles. Alredy restored and presented with a stylish frame.

Crucified Christ between S. Carlo Borromeo and S. Francesco

Oil painting on canvas. The Cross stands central and stretches upwards, illuminated by the light that comes from the gash of the heavens, where angels witness the Passion and Death of Jesus; at the foot of the Cross, in contemplation, the two great saints; a barren landscape can be glimpsed in the dark background. The canvas has various damages and signs of wear, and is in need of restoration. It is presented in a contemporary frame.

The Eucharist

Oil painting on canvas. Depicted in the foreground, a priest gives the Eucharist to a devotee, who receives the host in a collected attitude. Relined and restored, with very small drops of color. The painting is presented in a carved and gilded frame from the end of the 19th century.

Neoclassical Decorative Element Painting 18th Century

Tempera on canvas. Decorative element from a Lombard mansion house depicting a fake marble relief composed of a rhomboid frame enclosing a basket of fruit leaning on a lion's head. Garlands of leaves outside. The Neoclassical taste favored the sculptural plasticity over the pictorial expressiveness and the predominance of shape over color. The canvas is presented in frame. Light losses of color and stains of moisture. Last quarter of the 18th century.

Vincenzo Maria Coronelli

Group of four Engravings

Etchings on copper, etching and burin. The prints show the views of four Venetian palaces, citing their name, the neighborhood where they were located and the architect who created them, namely: Palazzo Contarini, Palazzo Zenobio, Palazzi Mocenighi and Palazzo Grimani. The four prints are part of the collection "Singularity of Venice. Palaces of Venice", a monumental work created at the beginning of the 18th century which constitutes the largest and most memorable graphic document on Venice dedicated to her by Coronelli, who was a geographer, cartographer, cosmographer and Italian encyclopedist. The works are presented in gilded frames from the early 1900s.

Painted Wooden Panel

Oil on wood. The panel, made with clear decorative intent, is cut and painted in the manner of a marble architectural decoration, with leaf decorations and red bow ribbon; in the tondo in the center there is a landscape with architectural whim. The panel has widespread small drops in color.

Pair of Still Lives With Flowers and Fruit Italian School 19th Century

Oil on cardboard applied on canvas. Italian School. The two compositions show different elements: on has different fruit in the foreground with colorful flowers; the other one shows a plate from which are fallinf flowers and fruit. They had been restored and need to be cleaned. They come with frames.

Figure with Dog 18th Century

Painting Under Glass

Painting under glass Countryside landscape with a men holding an oil lamp and a lance taht is going off the path followed by a dog maybe to go hunting. Nordic style landscape and building. Displayed in frame.

Portrait of a Child

Oil painting on canvas. Not signed. On the back generic attribution to Gerolamo Induno. Realistic depiction of a poor ragged boy who, sitting on the outside step of a house, eats his soup; the expressive rendering of the sadness and resignation of the child is intense, also underlined by the dull colors. Presented in a coeval golden frame, mounted inside another frame.

The drawings of Giovanni Antonio Sasso

Episodes from the Life of John the Baptist

Five drawings mixed technique on paper, depicting scenes from the life of St. John the Baptist, as recounted in the Gospels (The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth, the birth, the Baptism of Jesus, beheading, Salome presents the severed head to Herod). The back label specifies that the designs are copied from the cycle of the Chapel of St. John the Baptist in the famous Basilica of San Lorenzo in Genoa. In the frame.

Portrait of a Young Woman 1858

Pencil, charcoal and white lead on paper. Signed (Amalia Bianchi?) And dated lower right. The use of different pictorial pigments is very effective, creating a play of light and dark and well underlining the elements of the figure. The portrait is presented in a nineteenth-century wooden frame, embellished with leather inserts in the shape of leaves and flowers, with some small falls and shortcomings.