Chest Of Drawers Baroque
Features
Style: Baroque (1630-1730)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Year: Primo quarto del XVIII sec.
Origin: Brescia, Lombardia, Italy
Main essence: Walnut
Description
Chest of drawers with four drawers, slightly moved to the front. The mobile, built with a top of solid walnut in a single axis, has the sides constructed with a frame of walnut, containing a relief panel veneered in olive wood, briar root poplar and inlaid with spirals in maple. The same decorative motif is repeated on the drawers and on the strips angled in the mobile. The interior is spruce, the bracket feet are enriched on the front by means of bulbs, turned parts, hardware in original brass locks in wrought iron with a mechanism to view the original as the key.
Product Condition:
Product in good condition, has small signs of wear and tear.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 102,5
Width: 142
Depth: 68
Certificate issued by: Enrico Sala
Additional Information
Style: Baroque (1630-1730)
The term derives from the Spanish phoneme barrueco or portuguese barroco and literally means "shapeless pearl".Already around the middle of the eighteenth century in France it was synonymous with unequal, irregular, bizarre, while in Italy the diction was of medieval memory and indicated a figure of the syllogism, an abstraction of thought.
This historical period was identified with the derogatory term of baroque, recognizing in it extravagance and contrast with the criteria of harmony and expressive rigor to which it was intended to return under the influence of Greco-Roman art and the Italian Renaissance.
Baroque, secentista and secentismo were synonymous with bad taste.
As far as furniture is concerned, ideational freedom, the need for pomp and virtuosity originated a synergy destined to produce unsurpassed masterpieces.
The materials deployed were worthy of competing with the most astonishing tales of Marco Polo: lapis lazuli, malachite, amber, ivory, tortoiseshell, gold, silver, steel, precious wood essences and more, dressed the furnishings that by shape and imagination virtually gave life to the a thousand and one nights of many powerful Italians.
Typical of the period were load-bearing or accessory parts resolved with spiral column motifs, clearly inspired by the Berninian canopy of St. Peter, parts with rich sculptural high-relief carving and even in the round within a whirlwind of volutes, cartocci and spirals, curved and broken profiles , copings shaken by gables of articulated shaping, aprons adorned with ornaments, corbels, buttresses and anything else needed to move shapes and structures.
The Baroque is, moreover, the century of illusionism: lacquers and thin tempera flock to furniture and furnishings to imitate with the marbling effects of marble veins or games of precious briars.
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