Painting depicting "Apollo Dancing with the Nine Muses"

Ancient and very rare Japanese painting made in the early 1900s, fine Japanese manufacture. The painting has a rectangular brass frame, with rounded corners. Internally we see a further frame in yuta, classic sand colour, very nice. Yet another very small brass frame that frames the picture. The painting is a print painted on black cardboard, with whimsical and strong colors, typical of Japanese art. This represents a scene with a man and a woman, intent on dancing, arm in arm and spinning in a typical traditional Japanese dance...

Splendid 17th-century Italian painting by unknown artist, but certainly a follower of Caravaggio, relying on style and drawing. The painting has a very beautiful gilded wooden frame, with a subtle greek with spheres and an overlying rectangular frame with sinuous flowers on each corner, very elegant and beautiful. The painting depicts one of the most depicted religious scenes ever, the scourging of Christ, and is entirely done in oil on copper. The scourging of Jesus is an episode narrated in the Gospels (Mk15:15-16; Mt27:26-27; Lk23:16-26; Jn19:1-17[1]). Scourging is a flogging, particularly bloody, by means of sticks, rods or cat-o-nine-tails, the latter instrument consisting, in the Roman typology, of a short stick to which were secured several strings ending in metal claws, leads and bone splinters that caused tremendous lacerations and fractures to the tortured person. Chains are used in this scene, both to immobilize Jesus Christ and to flog him, as we can see in the upper right hand of the scourger. According to some personal research, it turned out that the actual scourging of Christ was mostly depicted at the column, while this Christ is on the ground, so presumably Christ here is scourged during the Way of the Cross at one of those stages where he fell. The painting has a very dark coloring, which is why this painting is believed to faithfully follow Caravaggio's style of dry, authoritarian brushstrokes. The painting shows a figure agonizing on the ground that continues to receive beatings and floggings of all kinds, representing Christ; his face is crucified in a loquacious expression of pain, he turns his eyes to heaven as if to invoke God, but at the same time those same eyes admonish the wickedness and arrogance inherent in humanity. Christ has one hand resting on the ground in the act of holding himself, while the other takes a completely unnatural stance against the barren ground. His body appears hardened to wanting to parry the blows, his legs are curled up on his knees as he takes kicks from the soldier above him. Christ is depicted pinned down from the neck with a very large and strong black iron bolt held by the other soldier. The soldier on the right in the foreground wears a one-shoulder tunic with an orange tunic and blue pants. On his feet he wears gray shoes, at his waist he has a belt with an iron helmet...

Painting on copper. Italian school of the late 17th century. The scene, which recounts a moment in the Passion of Christ, is filled with the charac...

Antique and very rare Japanese painting made in the early 1900s by a fine Japanese manufacturer. The painting has a rectangular brass frame with rounded corners. Internally we see a...

Decorative oil on canvas depicting a Bacchanal scene from Classical Greece, finely executed in the 19th century. The composition captures the vitality and movement characteristic of ...

A great painting of a classic mythology scene. Diana the goddess and the nymphs Uraniaand Calliope with a hunting dog. Very exactly drawn figures in the foreground, soft brush strok...

This oil on canvas is a meticulous reproduction of Giovanni Francesco Penni’s “Marriage of Cupid and Psyche” fresco (1517-18) from Villa Farnesina, Rome. Framed in an intricately car...

A good antique Dutch/Flemish oil on panel painting, after Cornelis van Poelenburgh, circa 1850. The painting portrays a number of nude and par...