Pair of Mirrors Baroque Gilded Wood Italy XVIII Century

Tuscany, Early XVIII Century

Code :  ANCOSP0180172

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Pair of Mirrors Baroque Gilded Wood Italy XVIII Century

Tuscany, Early XVIII Century

Code :  ANCOSP0180172

not available

Pair of Mirrors Baroque Gilded Wood Italy XVIII Century - Tuscany, Early XVIII Century

Features

Tuscany, Early XVIII Century

Style:  Baroque (1630-1730)

Age:  18th Century / 1701 - 1800 , 17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Origin:  Toscana, Italy

Material:  Wrought Iron , Shear plate , Gilded Wood , Carved Wood , Mercury Mirror

Description

Pair of Baroque mirrors in carved and gilded wood, Tuscany, early 18th century. Architectural cymatium with shell placed at the apex, festoons of leaves and fruit fall sideways, each following its own design, resting on top of the volutes. Mask placed in the center of the lower section with the function of housing the supporting arm in wrought iron and sheet metal. Equipped with a double order of mercury mirrors, sandwiched by a molded frame surmounted by curls and foliaceous elements.

Product Condition:
Object that requires restoration work due to age and wear. We try to present the real state of the item as fully as possible with photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description will prevail.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 91
Width: 50
Depth: 14

Additional Information

Style: Baroque (1630-1730)

The term derives from the Spanish phoneme barrueco or portuguese barroco and literally means "shapeless pearl".
Already around the middle of the eighteenth century in France it was synonymous with unequal, irregular, bizarre, while in Italy the diction was of medieval memory and indicated a figure of the syllogism, an abstraction of thought.
This historical period was identified with the derogatory term of baroque, recognizing in it extravagance and contrast with the criteria of harmony and expressive rigor to which it was intended to return under the influence of Greco-Roman art and the Italian Renaissance.
Baroque, secentista and secentismo were synonymous with bad taste.
As far as furniture is concerned, ideational freedom, the need for pomp and virtuosity originated a synergy destined to produce unsurpassed masterpieces.
The materials deployed were worthy of competing with the most astonishing tales of Marco Polo: lapis lazuli, malachite, amber, ivory, tortoiseshell, gold, silver, steel, precious wood essences and more, dressed the furnishings that by shape and imagination virtually gave life to the a thousand and one nights of many powerful Italians.
Typical of the period were load-bearing or accessory parts resolved with spiral column motifs, clearly inspired by the Berninian canopy of St. Peter, parts with rich sculptural high-relief carving and even in the round within a whirlwind of volutes, cartocci and spirals, curved and broken profiles , copings shaken by gables of articulated shaping, aprons adorned with ornaments, corbels, buttresses and anything else needed to move shapes and structures.
The Baroque is, moreover, the century of illusionism: lacquers and thin tempera flock to furniture and furnishings to imitate with the marbling effects of marble veins or games of precious briars.
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Age:

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

17th Century / 1601 - 1700

17th Century / 1601 - 1700

Material:

Wrought Iron

Shear plate

Gilded Wood

Carved Wood

Mercury Mirror

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