Ancient Painting Penitent Magdalene '700 Painting Oil on Canvas

XVII- XVIII century

Oil on canvas applied to the table. It is part of the standing figure of Mary, with her hands joined in prayer and her head surrounded by a crown of stars. These attributes refer to the iconography of Mary the Immaculate Conception, which, drawing from the Apocalypse, depicts her standing on a crescent, crushing a snake underfoot, surrounded by stars and in an attitude of prayer. The painting was probably part of a larger canvas. The painting has small drops of color. It is proposed in a stylish frame.

Embroideries on canvas, cut out and applied on a wooden panel. Probably belonging to a larger composition, then reworked to create decorative series, the chalice-shaped corolla of a flower with a long stem, filled with fruit and other flowers, with variegated colors. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Embroideries on canvas, cut out and applied on a wooden panel. Probably belonging to a larger composition, then reworked to create decorative series, the chalice-shaped corolla of a flower with a long stem, filled with fruit and other flowers, with variegated colors. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Embroideries on canvas, cut out and applied on a wooden panel. Probably belonging to a larger composition, then reworked to create decorative series, the chalice-shaped corolla of a flower with a long stem, filled with fruit and other flowers, with variegated colors. It is presented in a stylish frame.

Oil on canvas. The painting, made in the first half of the 1900s, takes up the landscape works in the subject and in the pictorial mode: in a landscape rich in vegetation and with peaks in the background, a young commoner asks for charity from some travelers who rest on the roadside , near a stone arch. The canvas has undergone aging and is presented in a late 19th century frame.

An Officer's Portrait 1897

Oil on canvas. Signed, dated and with location Rome in the bottom right-hand corner. There is little biographical information on the painter Mario Spinetti, but various genre scenes and some portraits are known of his production. Presented here is a three-quarter-length portrait of an officer of the Royal Italian Army. The painting is presented in a gilded antique frame, which is in need of restoration due to multiple missing parts.

Pencil on paper. Good use of the hatching and chiaroscuro are shown in this portrait of a young woman. The portrait comes with a 19th century wooden frame that had beeen embellished with leafy and floral leather inserts; the frame has some color drops and some missing parts.

Landscape with River and Figures

Watercolor on paper. Signed lower right. Giuseppe Gabani, who was a Cavalry officer and participated in many uprisings of the Risorgimento, stood out in particular for his equestrian subjects, battle scenes, orientalism, made with vivacity of color and pictorial emphasis. Here instead we have a delicate watercolor of his, which offers a landscape with a river flowing in the countryside and walking figurines: in Gabani's production there are actually many of these landscapes, calm in colors and rather pervaded by peace and tranquility. In coeval frame.

Wooden sculptures. It is a composition of two wooden heads, a male one and a female one, placed on a board and framed by a gilded frame of 19th century. The heads might had been the handles of a canteran of 17th century.

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.

Burin engravings on copper. Designed by Vincenzo Gazzotto and engraved by Antonio Bernati (1792-1873) in 1833, these are four engravings taken from the figurative repertoire "The costume of all nations and of all times, described and illustrated with an atlas" published by Lodovico Menin between 1833 and 1843. Each panel is numbered in the upper right corner, and bears in the upper center the indication of the geographical region and historical period of the costume scenes depicted. There are costumes: Lombardi sec. IX - X; Lombardi sec. XIV -XV; Tuscans sec. XIII-XIV; Marca Trevigiana sec. XIV. The engravings are presented in wooden frames from the mid-1900s, in an antique style.

Oil painting on canvas. Unidentified signature lower right (Solini?). The man is portrayed with a headdress and home clothes, while holding in his hands an object that could be a snuffbox, to underline the dimension of domestic rest. The painting is presented in a frame from the early 1900s.