Salvator Rosa Naples 1615-Rome 1673 Screaming Skull 1640 – 1645 ca. Oil on canvas, 24 x 19.3 cm This small canvas portrays a skull in the act of screaming (or snearing), with its mouth open wide and tufts of grey hair attached to the head. Rendered with rapid strokes of thick…
Francesco Hayez Venice 1791 – Milan 1882 Young nun. Life Study, 1879 Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 50.7 cm Inscribed, signed and dated on the back of the left hand chair: “Studio dal vero //Franc.° Hayez / fece nell’ età di 89 anni / 1879” “Life Study //Franc.° Hayez / aged 89 years /…
Agostino Cornacchini (Pescia 1686 – Rome 1754) Apollo in the Guise of a Swan Awakening Eros from Sleep; 1714-27 ca.; terracotta with slipware (ingobbiatura), cm 32 x 68 x 51 The terracotta model discussed here was interpreted by Stella Rudolph in 2007 (written communication of 20 October 2007) as a Sleeping Eros and attributed…
Anonymous Portrait of Tadeus Kościuszko 1796 circa Pen and black ink, brown watercolour ink, 90 x 70 mm Inscribed on the back, on old support paper: “Kosciusko / patriots”; inscribed on the back of the frame support: “N. 85 (provenienza Walpole) Taddeo Kosciuszko 1746-1817 Insigne patriota Polacco – emigrò in America e fu Aiutante di…
Carlo Albacini (Fabriano 1734? – Rome 1813) Bust of Virgili 1790 ca. marble h. 58 cm
Medardo Rosso (Turin 1858 – Milan 1928) Birichino or Gavroche; 1887-88; bronze, Bronze, height 29.7 cm, with a small screwed plate, fused with the sculpture, on a base formed by a reworked fragment of an antique base in breccia marble, height 13.8 cm. Under the base are glued two old labels, a rectangular one on…
Giuseppe Errante Trapani 1760-Rome 1821 Self-portrait 1790 ca. Oil on canvas, 93 x 69 cm On the typewritten cartouche glued on the back of the canvas: “AUTORITRATTO ERRANTE GIUSEPPE / da Trapani, nato nel 1760, morto nel 1821 a Roma / amico del Bossi a Milano ove dimorò. / Dipinse a fresco a Civitavecchia…
Giacomo Raffaelli (Rome 1753-1836) Dog End of 18th Century micromosaic, 26 x 24,3 cm
ANDREA APPIANI Milan 1754-1817 The Companions of Europa Garland the Bull ca. 1784-1786 Tempera on canvas, 190 × 135 cm Provenance: Milan, Palazzo Castelbarco, Carlo Ercole Castelbarco, marquis of Cislago; Milan, Palazzo Silva, count Ercole Silva, from 1808 ca.; Cinisello, Villa Silva, count Girolamo Ghirlanda Silva, from 1840; Maria Celeste Camilla Biandrà Trecchi Ghirlanda Silva…
ANDREA APPIANI Milan 1754-1817 Europa Sits on the Back of the Bull ca. 1784-1786 Tempera on canvas, 190 × 135 cm Provenance: Milan, Palazzo Castelbarco, Carlo Ercole Castelbarco, marquis of Cislago; Milan, Palazzo Silva, count Ercole Silva, from 1808 ca.; Cinisello, Villa Silva, count Girolamo Ghirlanda Silva, from 1840; Maria Celeste Camilla Biandrà Trecchi Ghirlanda…
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