Milan - Paintings

Ancient Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This genre scene painting is divided into eighteen squares bordered by a black frame and divided into three lines. The scene depicts the story of a couple with three children through the stories of their domestic life and their rural activity; each box has a caption written in the Amharic language. In the first line: they grind; they drink; …illegible… while they spin; they bring water. In the second line: comb, cut your hair; treats your teeth; grind; they bring the wood; they bring water. In the third section: they prepare beer; they prepare bread; they cook bread; they prepare lunch; while they eat; while they drink. This canvas is painted in shades of ocher and is mounteed on a ebonized frame. Dates back to the late 1930s. The canvas show minimal tears and signs of wear but we can customize a restoration. The human figures are characterized by unrealistic proportions of the head and body and depicted in static positions. This sense of fixity and the narration in successive chapters in domestic environments make the paintings easily intelligible and suggestive. A particularly fascinating aspect of Ethiopian art...

The pocket watch case is made of 800/100 silver. The entire back of the case is decorated with the niello technique, a refined inlay of a black metal alloy in the grooves or spaces l...

Italian modern urban landscape airbrush painting by Alvise Besutti, 1980s Painting with rectangular frame made with airbrush. The painting represents an urban landscape with skyscrap...

Italian modern erotic Japanese manga painting by Gianni S99, 1990s Acrylic painting on board with an erotic theme, representing iconic characters from J...

Italian school ,early 20th century Hand-painted oil on canvas depicting gentleman with oval wooden frame worked with gold leaf.

Charming and lively interior scene featuring two puppies playing with a rag, set in a rustic environment with clay pots and scattered straw. The subject reflects Frank Paton's typica...

African Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This tribal folk art painting depicts a battle scene and the canvas is mounted on a parallelogram-shaped frame. It is a large battle painting...

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...

In this work from her abstract period, Isa Di Battista Gorini. Isa Di Battista Gorini is a Milanese painter who studied painting and decoration at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Af...

In this work from her geometric period, Isa Di Battista Gorini employs gauze as both a structural and poetic element, layering it over the painted surface like a delicate veil that b...

In this work from her geometric period, Isa Di Battista Gorini employs gauze as both a structural and poetic element, layering it over the painted surface like a delicate veil that b...

In this work from her geometric period, Isa Di Battista Gorini employs gauze as both a structural and poetic element, layering it over the painted surface like a delicate veil that b...

Italian modern erotic Japanese manga painting by Gianni S99, 1990s Acrylic painting on board with an erotic theme, representing iconic characters from J...

In this work from her geometric period, Isa Di Battista Gorini employs gauze as both a structural and poetic element, layering it over the painted surface like a delicate veil that b...

In this work from her geometric period, Isa Di Battista Gorini employs gauze as both a structural and poetic element, layering it over the painted surface like a delicate veil that b...

In this work from her geometric period, Isa Di Battista Gorini employs gauze as both a structural and poetic element, layering it over the painted surface like a delicate veil that b...