Dimensions: 40 x 44 x 26 cm.
Description: throats hammered by what nerve smooth start scrolls of acanthus leaves. In the bottom center there is a shell with putto, while on the vertical sides were asked the figure of Juno and Minerva, surmounted by the figure of Mercury that gives the apple to Paris. Gouache gilding with gold in preparation for bolus.
18/12/2010 FRAME No.9:
Silhouette Cassette beat groove and cord.
Location: Tuscany
Period: first half of the sixteenth century.
Current location: Milan, Pinacoteca del Castello Sforzesco.
Dimensions: 35 x 45 x 8 cm.
Description: The band is decorated in a pellet with a wave pattern flanked by stylized leaves engraved on the bottom. The profile ends with a smooth groove found another cord. Frame half and half. This type of box frame is among the most popular during the sixteenth century, when the statement was made throughout the north-central area of \u200b\u200bthe peninsula with little variation in general more related to the particular shape that the work of relief pill. It is rather low and softly furrowed by a single branch, with sinuous, running along all four sides.
05/12/2010 FRAME No.8:
This week we propose a model for "kiosk". Origin: Veneto
Period: first quarter of the sixteenth century.
Current location: Rome, Galleria Borghese
Dimensions: 77 x 55 x 22 cm.
Description: setting up kiosk. Beat smooth groove, followed by the plateau region decorated with gold leaf designs on the bottom in red folders central tempera, tempera blue on the sides of these, the corners are marked by red decorated in gold medallions.
The band continued with a pattern of beads and a flat and engraved with floral motifs carved rosettes in the corners on a dark background. The bottom of the base has a smooth shape followed by a flat band carved motif of flowers, palms, birds and leaves, flanked by two plinths decorated with a palm tree. An applicant follows bobbin. Two columns, in the round and gold, are on a flat bottom tempera red and blue and are flanked by pilasters decorated with foliage plants. The frieze, preceded by a series of smooth grooves and carved with the same reason the base, is crossed by two projecting moldings that bear the sake of masks, The cornice has a reason to stamp and ends with a smooth shape protruding.
27/11/2010
FRAME N.7:
weekly appointment with a specimen of Tuscan origin.
Location: Tuscany
Period: Year 1772
Current location: Florence, Museum of the Pietre Dure
Dimensions: 54 x 72 x 7.50 cm.
Description: Stop in leafs inward. The centers of the band, engraved on gold matte, there is a shell from which branch of the desired light ending with flowers. At the corners, feminine heads crowned with open shells from which radiate light leaves spiral. The profile shows a slight baccellatura. Gouache gilding with gold in preparation for bolus. The findings of the bar and the band because of wisps of leaves alternating heads are feminine pad.
21/11/2010 FRAME No.6:
This week we look at a beautiful backdrop of Piedmontese origin of the eighteenth century.
Location: Piedmont Period: late eighteenth century.
Current location: Turin, Museo Civico d'Arte Antica
Size: 19 x 28 x 5 cm.
Description: The frame was created by Giuseppe Maria Bonzanigo with the bas-relief depicting "The Graces, or the allegory of friendship" towards the end of the eighteenth century or at the latest during the first decade of the nineteenth century. Stop spindle with three disks, flat strip of wood mahogany decorated with a tangle of vines and branches of pink light wood. Centers, roses bloom circular corners by square surrounded by balls, there are flower-shaped square, Profile, slightly protruding smooth groove. 45 ° frame.
13/11/2010 FRAME No.5
usual appointment weekly with the best of Italian antique frames.
Origin: Emilia.
Period: last quarter of the sixteenth century.
Current location: Trapani, Regional Museum Pepoli.
Dimensions: 140 x 98 x 16 cm.
Description: shape Cassette beaten gold leaf and recurrent nodes centers stylized. The flat band is decorated with motifs of stylized foliage rather, a mecca red on a gold background, the thickness, shopping at the corners are carved with leaves extended open folders. The profile and projecting a golden egg is stylized, radiating out centers to meet in the corners. Frame dovetail. Gouache gilding with gold in preparation for the bolus to red band decorated with red mecca.
07/11/2010 FRAME No.4
Fourth meeting with review of the finest Italian photo frames. This week, we treat a frame of Venetian origin of the second half of the sixteenth century.
storage location , Padua, Museo Civico.
Dimensions, 118 x 79 x 18 cm.
Description: frame to "Sansovino". Stop with arches followed by a band of scrolls. Two garlands of flowers and fruit painted brown tempera branch at the center of the bottom where you put a coat of arms. On the sides, two shelves support large bear masks and scrolls, on which are placed two caryatids carved and painted. From the curl of the desired below, in which recess is placed a head of a cherub, departs from the other two festoons with fruit and flowers. Two carved cornices baccellature enclosing flowers trefoil are supported by caryatids same. The cornice is made up of two scrolls and two garlands. In the hollow of the scrolls are carved two masceroni profile facing up. It 'obvious lack of an ornament in the top center. 90 ° frame. Gouache gilding with gold in preparation for and share Bolus yellow polychrome.
01/11/2010 FRAME No.3
This week we propose a framework of Tuscan origin of the second half of the sixteenth century.
Chapel conservation : Parma, Galleria Nazionale. Size: 50 x 65 x 12 cm.
Description: stop bobbin with two pearls, countered the pods and jutting corners meet with an ear open. the smooth shape continues to the outside and ends in a profile leaves the applicants name at the corners with a smooth belt. At the four centers is applied to a frieze spirals that surrounds a carved mask. 90 ° frame. Gouache gilding in gold with white bolus preparation.
21/10/2010 FRAME No.2
second meeting on the theme of Italian antique frames, it is a copy dated in the first half the sixteenth century (1520-40) and originally from Tuscany (Siena).
Dimensions: 54 x 73 cm x 27.50 cm. Current location: Archdiocesan Seminary (Siena) Description: frame Cassette hammered ovals and countered with balls. Broad band with floral motifs, carved animals and fantasy. The bottom has racemes parting of two dolphins flanking a winged crest in the center. The vertical sides have the bottom two winged chimeras, whose tail is transformed into two other foliage plants. The upper side has at its center the head of a putto leaning on two dolphins whose tails turn into foliage. To mark the corners, four busts are projecting very manly places by round medallions. Counter-wave profile and a leaf pointing outwards. Frame 90 ° + 45 °. Gilding with gold in preparation for bolus red band decorated with carving, painting in tempera has a blue background.
14/10/2010 FRAME No.1
Now and then weekly, as fond of antique frames, I will propose the most beautiful frames dating from the Italian Renaissance and the Neoclassical period include details and a brief description.
Location: Central Italy
storage location : Bologna, Pinacoteca Nazionale.
Age: beginning of the sixteenth century
Dimensions: 44.3 x 58 x 19 cm.
Description: gouache gilding in gold with yellow bole preparation. Flat band painted in distemper in black tablet with golden decoration. The floral decoration in relief in thin pad is divided symmetrically on the flat band with a fairly smooth development. Among the foliage of the two vertical lines, closing the candelabra plant and how to limit their development, however, are placed some decorative elements are difficult to decipher, probably coming from the fantastic world of the grotesque. The plant motif is, In this exemplary design still substantially tardoquattrocentesca, somewhat stylized than others later, where it will become more recognizable in the form of a branch of a racemic or spirals.
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