Italian Wall Decorations

Venetian style dolphin and clam wall decor set from the 1960's in silver leafed resin with hand painted gold highlights. Together, they make a striking baroque focal point in any roo...

Italian metal and glass shelf 1970

This horizontal ceramic wall panel by Marcello Fantoni captures a visual narrative rooted in ancient procession and mid-century modern abstraction. Spanning over 1.5 metres, this wor...

Original vintage drink advertising poster for the Italian bitter aperitif alcohol drink Campari featuring a great design by the Italian artist Carlo Fisanotti (Fisa; 1912-1998) showi...

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing "V° Feuilles de Fleurs" a collection "Dessines par Carl et Gre es par Roubillac". This botanical style print is available in 2 differen...

A beautiful hand painted blue, cream, and green faience pottery wall plate featuring a coat of arms crest with a swan. By Veschini Deruta Italy, Late-20th Century Measures: 10"W x...

Extraordinary Mid-Century wall shelf in curved rattan, bamboo and wicker. This marvellous object was made in Italy in the 1960s and is attributed to the mastery of Franco Albini. Th...

Gennaro Villani (1885-1948) Amalfi Coast, oil on canvas in painted and gilt frame, signed lower left. Italy, circa 1920. Dimensions: 27" W x 23" H x 1.25" D; sight 24.5" W x 21" H.

An eclectic personality, from his early days he was active in the fields of architecture, painting, graphics and set design. He graduated in architecture from the Milan Polytechnic i...

Composition performed with: Oval ceramic serving dish. Manufacture: anonymous Oval ceramic serving platter with floral decorations. Manufacture: Bavaria Toys made of plastic material...

A striking pair of Italian 19th century Venetian oil on canvas paintings. Each painting is set within their original giltwood frame. The charming scenes d...

delightful Avallone Vietri round plate with 1950s central decoration

Original vintage movie poster for an Italian mondo style sexploitation documentary film on English customs and nightlife (X rated due to scenes ...

Background: Textured Soft Beige Subjects: Black Line Designer: Marika Tardio Designed by hand in Digital Art Made in: Italy Printing support: Fine Art ( front 50% cellulose, back no...

Pair of Italian gilt carved panels. Pair Neoclassical carved gilt wood open work panels with alternating square and round paterae with acanthus and further egg and dart borders in or...

Antique portrait titled 'Carolus III Hispania'. Original antique print of Charles III of Spain. The print shows the king illustrated with the symbols of royal power and war, as well as with several archaeological pieces...

Vintage Poster Italian 2-Foglio (39 × 55 in.), PEA/United Artists. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. Italian title: I racconti di Canterbury. Bold, colorful, cubist-style illustrati...

Original vintage movie poster for the Italian release of the futuristic sci-fi space thriller film 2001: A Space Odyssey / 2001: Odissea Nello Spazio directed by Stanley Kubrick (Osc...

The dramatic large, almost 4 foot tall etching is framed with a green ground and gold double border with cream French matting. Copper-plate engraving by Italian artist Giovanni Piran...

This 19th-century oil painting captures a vibrant Venetian landscape, depicting the iconic Venice Canal with boats drifting along the waterway. The bright colors and dynamic brushst...

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Rare poster designed by Enzo Mari "Ontwerp en Produktie. Voorwerpen van Angelo Mangiarotti, Enzo Mari, Bruno Munari. Produktie B. Danese" exhibition held in 1966/67 at Stedelijk muse...

Charming Decoartive Watercolor Village Scene pastoral scene of layered panels. Possibly an Italian or Swiss village scene set below mountain ...

A beautiful, large painting on canvas made with vegetable dyes. The painting depicts the banquet between Antony and Cleopatra; as Plutarch notes, Cleopatra organized a sumptuous banq...

Allo Chalet delle Rose artwork by Concetto Pozzati for Jabik. Numbered from the limited edition of 2100 on aluminium sheet and wood frame. Signed and da...

A fine Italian Mid-20th century oil on panel "Battipanni" (The Carpet Beaters) by Nino Caffè (1908-1975) depicting a group of Cardinals playing around with ...

Late 19th century Italian hand carved 22-karat gold coat hanger.

Print from the Collection Botanique Vegetables representing a big Lemon Citrus enriched with green and yellow colors and nuances of watercolor. This print is paired with Lemon Citrus...

Italian hand colored engraving print of flowers with Latin names within inlaid frame (late 18/19th Century).  

From our Hand-Painted Furniture Collection, we are pleased to introduce you to our Moro Screen. Nature has always been a source of inspiration for our hand-decorated furnishings. We...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

The Poetry of Light: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art of Washington: Tiepolo, Canaletto, Sargent, Whistler, by Andrew Robison. Publ...

A set of three small bamboo, rattan and smoked glass wall shelves designed and produced in Italy, c. 1960s. Dimensions: 6” H x 6” W x 6” D

This painting is after Raphael which was one of the greatest artists of the Italian Renaissance. He was a meteoric success painting altar pieces and Por...

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing "Magnolia". This botanical style print is available in 6 different natural representations to create a bright and joyful composition. I...

This is an engraving,black color. Representing Soldiers. It has been made in France in the 19th Century. With the collection stamp.

Large Roman marble vase printed on a hand press on 100% cotton engraving paper. Completely handpainted with a cream wash, pompeian red and blue highlights and details. Light brown ma...

Antique Religious Oil Painting, Antique Religious Icon, Antique Gothic Revival Religious Painting, Antique Gothic Revival Cabinet, Reli...

Italian painting dated 1929. Oil on canvas framework depicting Madonna of excellent pictorial quality. First canvas painting, signed and dated lower right (see photo), signature in t...

Light Prism by Alberto Biasi, a kinetic sculpture with moving prisms that decompose and reflect light, produced in a limited edition of 50 pieces by Centro Duchamp in San Lazzaro di ...

Print from the Collection "Le Parroquet" representing Meunier parrot, with a beautiful wooden frame enriched with a jute passpartout, which brings out colors and sumatute of watercol...

Contemporary Italian tempera on paper signed Max Marra 2004(multimedia experimenter), tempera on a gold background. Max Marra was born in Paola, Calabria, in 1950. He moved to Lisson...

Italian 2-Foglio (100 × 140 cm), Universal. Directed by Hubert Cornfield, starring Marlon Brando, Richard Boone, and Rita Moreno. Artwork signed by Averardo Ciriello, featuring Brand...

A monumentally scaled and most decorative Italian late 17th century Baroque Period Venetian st. patinated Wood and Giltwood wall decor. This most impressive wall decor/plaque is unde...

Oil on canvas, splendid View of Venice, unknown artist, with more recent gilded wooden frame,. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS, INFORMATION OF THE LOT AND SHIPPING INFORMATION CAN BE REQUEST BY SENDING AN EMAIL. Indicative shipping costs in Italy: 170€ and Europe: 340€. Tags: Olio su tela, Veduta di Venezia. Óleo sobre lienzo, Vista de Venecia. Huile sur toile, Vue de Venise...

Print from the Collection Botanique Vegetables representinga group of three different types of artichokes enriched with green colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different veg...

Antique Italian painting from the 18th century. Artwork oil on canvas (glued on a board) depicting a pleasant caprice, view with architectures and characters of good pictorial qualit...

A fantastic large Grand Tour Florentine antique pietra dura plaque depicting a group of drunken cavaliers carousing in a cellar. The image in this piece is all made of pietra dura:...

Print from the Collection Botanique Vegetables representinga group of three different types of artichokes enriched with green colors and nuances of watercolor. Another different veg...

Large Roman style bronze figural architectural element, depicting a goddess holding on her head an acanthus column with a bronze urn cascading with ...

A gorgeous pair of vintage Italian Neoclassical style gilt wood wall brackets or corbels with a lovely patina, circa 1950. These stylish brackets have a lovely aged white and gilt fl...

A beautifully painted oil on canvas of a lady, circa 1825, merged with a period gilt-wood frame.

Important Portrait of the Princess of Ruspoli, began 18th Century, Italian School Began 18th-century oil on canvas depicting the Princess of Ruspoli, a member of one of the most in...

Giovanni Ottaviani (Italy, 1735-1808) Title: Scene from Cloister Vaults in the Raphael Loggias, Vatican Large, exquisitely hand-coloured etching from the series Loggie di Rafaele ne...

Elegant hand-watercoloured print representing "Amaryllis Formosissima". This botanical style print is available in 6 different natural representations to create a bright and joyful ...

A brass and black-lacquered metal coat rack designed and produced in Italy, c. 1950s. Oxidation present to brass and metal Loss of black paint present to metal Wear consistent wit...

A superbly carved, early 17th century decorative Renaissance walnut wall panel mounted within a carved oak frame, sourced from a private UK collectio...

Chic wrought iron wall mount console bracket, attributed to Pier Luigi Colli, circa 1940's, marked made in Italy. Well crafted, in excellent, original, clean condition. Offered is t...

Rare and remarkable Italian pietra dura bayscape with birds, boats and a lighthouse handcrafted in inlaid stone and marble and presented in a marble frame.

Lusitanorum Regum Icones – Complete Kings of Portugal Table, Rome c.1700 This complete multi-sheet engraved series titled “Lusitanorum Regum Icones, Ordine Temporum Expositae” presents a learned dynastic overview of the Kings of Portugal, conceived as a single monumental historical table rather than as individual portrait prints. Engraved in Rome around 1700, the sheets were designed to be assembled into a large rectangular composition, following a consistent architectural framework of laurel-wreathed medallions, crowned rulers, and extensive Latin historical texts. The series traces the Portuguese monarchy from its early medieval origins through successive dynasties to the reigning rulers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Each portrait is accompanied by a concise Latin account of the ruler’s reign, situating the individual within a continuous historical narrative. As with other contemporary dynastic tables, several medallions are intentionally left blank, an original feature indicating that the work was conceived as an open-ended genealogy, allowing space for future sovereigns to be added. These blank medallions are integral to the original design and confirm the set’s completeness as issued. The engravings are executed in refined Roman burin technique, with dense concentric background lines, carefully modeled facial features, and rich ornamental foliage framing each portrait. The overall composition belongs to the European scholarly tradition of comparative royal genealogies, produced for an educated international audience interested in history, legitimacy, and the continuity of royal power. Closely related in conception and execution to contemporary tables of emperors and foreign dynasties, this Portuguese series reflects the same intellectual ambition and visual authority. When assembled as intended, the sheets form a visually commanding rectangular wall table, particularly suited to a library, study, or institutional interior. Complete surviving sets are uncommon; most examples encountered today are fragmentary or dispersed. Offered here is a full, intact set as issued, making it an important and decorative historical object for collectors of Iberian history, early modern genealogy, or large-scale engraved wall works. Condition report: Complete multi-sheet set. Overall good condition with light age toning and occasional staining, primarily in the margins. Plates well printed with clear impressions. No losses to engraved image areas. Blank medallions original to the design. Framing tips: Can be framed as a single reconstructed rectangular composition for strong visual impact, or as aligned sheets in a grid. Particularly effective with wide light mounts and a dark or gilt wood frame in a classical library or study setting. Technique: Copper engraving Maker: Nicolas Dorigny, Rome, circa 1700–1705 Keywords: Portugal history, Kings of Portugal, Lusitanian monarchy, Portuguese royalty, dynastic table, genealogical chart, royal portraits, early modern history, Roman engraving...