SAINTS VINCENT FERRER, PETER MARTYR AND RAYMOND OF PEÑAFORT 1670s or 1680s
Louis Cretey is a highly individual exponent of one of the most anticlassical, non-conformist and eccentric expressions of Baroque painting.
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LOT WITH HIS DAUGHTERS 1833
With its spirited execution and prescient sense of eccentric Romanticism, this newly discovered canvas is a superb addition to the oeuvre of Johann Heinrich Schönfeld. Praised for his inventive history paintings and singularly refined style, Schönfeld was unquestionably one of the great artists of the German baroque.
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SAINT DOROTHEA OF CAESAREA c.1615
This marble sculpture of Puck, the mischievous sprite from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream, together with his companion figure of Will-o’-the-wisp, was the American artist Harriet Hosmer's most popular composition. Hosmer was one of the most successful female artists of the 19th century and spent most of her life living and working in Rome. There she was a leading figure in an important group of women artists known as the ‘sisterhood of American lady sculptors' who expressed their feminist and anti-slavery views through the neoclassical sculptures they produced.
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DESIGN BY GIAN LORENZO BERNINI 1598 - 1680 CAST BY ERCOLE FERRATA AND WORKSHOP 1610 - 1686
Lorenzo Viani is a true nearly-forgotten genius of the 20th century, celebrated by his contemporaries, yet today almost totally unknown outside of Italy.
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A CAPRICCIO OF THE ROMAN FORUM WITH TUCCIA, THE VESTAL VIRGIN 1731
The sitter of this portrait is Alpinolo Porcella (1874-1962): a writer, journalist, critic, but also an artist. Born in Genoa, he moved to Rome where he became a prominent figure in the Roman artistic and literary milieu of the 1910s and 20s, in close contact with intellectuals and artists of the time, like Giorgio de Chirico, Filippo de Pisis, Giovanni Comisso and, of course, Viani.
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SAINTS VINCENT FERRER, PETER MARTYR AND RAYMOND OF PEÑAFORT 1670s or 1680s
DESIGN BY GIAN LORENZO BERNINI 1598 - 1680 CAST BY ERCOLE FERRATA AND WORKSHOP 1610 - 1686
A CAPRICCIO OF THE ROMAN FORUM WITH TUCCIA, THE VESTAL VIRGIN 1731
THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW A BOZZETTO FOR THE CALLING OF SAINT MATTHEW IN SAN MARCO EVANGELISTA AL CAMPIDOGLIO, ROME c.1743