Ottavio Leoni – Conversation piece
Ottavio Leoni (Rome 1578-1630) Conversation Piece 1598 ca. Oil on copper, 29,7 x 38,9 cm Provenance: Forlì, private collection
Ottavio Leoni (Rome 1578-1630) Conversation Piece 1598 ca. Oil on copper, 29,7 x 38,9 cm Provenance: Forlì, private collection
Roberto Melli (Ferrara 1885 – 1958) Portrait of the Poet Sebastiano Carta 1940 Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm Signed, lower right: “Melli” Provenance: Rome, L’attico galleria d’arte; Rome, Pier Demetrio Ferrero collection; Rome, private collection Bibliography: Mostra commemorativa di Roberto Melli, exh. cat., Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, ed. by N. Ponente,…
Marco Palmezzano (Forlì 1459 – 1539) Christ Carrying the Cross 1520-25 ca. Tempera, oil on panel; 68 x 54.5 cm Signed lower left: “Marcus Palmezanus Pictor forlivensis faciebat” Provenance: Family of the counts Alighieri di Serego, in Venetian and Umbrian properties until the 1980s; Forlì, private collection Bibliography: V. Sgarbi (ed. by), Le meraviglie della…
Francesco Hayez (Venice 1791 – Milan 1882) Model of the Triumphant Athlete for the Concorso Canova, also called of the Anonymous, of 1813; 1813; oil on canvassed paper, 61,5 x 49,5 cm; provenance: private collection
Salvator Rosa (Arenella, Naples 1615-Rome 1673) St. Paul the Hermit Oil on canvas, 199 x 188.5 cm Provenance: Germany, provate collection Bibliography: G. Porzio, “Centuries to Escape into Theban Desert”. A new St Paul the Hermit by Salvator Rosa, ex. cat. Tefaf New York Fall, Galleria Carlo Virgilio & C., Rome 2016.
Umberto Pinzauti (Florence 1886–Ravenna 1960) Vase: “Welcome Spring…” Circa 1915 Bronze with wooden base, h 27.3 cm Inscription in centre of vase: Ben venga maggio e l gonfalon selvaggio, ben venga primavera che vuol l’uom s’innamori (Welcome May and the flowering boughs, welcome Spring so that man falls in love). On side of base: Paying tribute to the President, united youth offers this with affection. Signed on base: Pinzauti Provenance: Rome, private collection  Attentive to the impact of Viennese Liberty, in 1909 he carries out the pictorial decorations of the newly–built small villa–cum-studio of Galileo Chini, in Florence. These…
Faustino Joli (Brescia, 1814 – 1876) Episode from the Ten Days of Brescia. The San Barnaba Barricade, March 31,1849 oil on canvas, 33 x 46 cm right: “CONTRADA DELLO SGUAZZO / BRESCIA IL GIORNO 31 MARZO / 1849” Provenance: Brescia, Count Filippo Salvadego collection (1934); Brescia, private collection Exposition: Brescia, 1934, cat. 141 Bibliography: Mostra…
Luigi Galli (Milan 1820-Rome 1900) Evil Clinging to Humanity Circa 1885 Oil on canvas, 60 × 39 cm  Provenance: Rome, private collection   Initiated to the plastic neoclassicism of Luigi Sabatelli and aware of the developments of European painting, in particular in France – above all Millet and Courbet – and England – where George Frederic Watts is his main point of reference -, he develops his own particular variation of the romantic symbolist atmosphere, enveloping it in elements that…
Giovanni Battista Bissoni, called The Veneziano (Genoa 1600 – 1657) Crucifix (Alive Christ) 1630 ca. Ivory, the cross in ebonised pear wood, with silver terminals, the base in Sicilian jasper, h cm 64, total height cm 158 Provenance: Elena of Montenegro, Queen Consort of Italy (1873-1952); marquise Guglielmina Campello della Spina (born Boncompagni Ludovisi, 1881-1973),…
Domenico Rambelli (Faenza 1886-Rome 1972) Head of the dying infantryman for the Viareggio War Memorial 1927 Bronze, h 35 cm Dedicated and signed on the base: “ALL’ON. CARLO SCORZA DRITTA SPADA DIFENDITRICE DELL’OPERA PIÙ MONUMENTALE DI PENSIERO E FORMA ALZATA AI CADUTI PER LA PATRIA D. RAMBELLI” Provenance: Rome, private collection
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