Neo-Baroque Wooden Sculpture Italy 19th Century

Style: Neo-Baroque (1860-1890)

Anticipated in England in the first half of the 19th century on reminiscences of the Elizabethan style, it returns in vogue around 1870, but interpreted in a very free way.
At the beginning it represents a response to the frivolity of the neo-rococo, but soon expires in a pompous and eclectic style that combines severe sixteenth-century elements with early seventeenth-century sculptural decorations.
The furniture is solid, richly carved and carved, in wood with a dark patina.
Masks, cornices, columns carved with herms that make up typical architectural structures of Renaissance palaces, are the elements that characterize the neo-Renaissance style.
It was an era in which we saw the revival and the revival of ancient forms with a typically Renaissance taste, large carvings were used for an all-round, deeper and three-dimensional vision, the use of feral legs in the caissons and in the wardrobes, squares and moldings, frames, ashlar and nails, Romanesque ornamental motifs but also acanthus leaves, cartouches and lion heads.
Often in this period the furniture is built using ancient materials and parts of Renaissance furniture.
Walnut was often used but also less hard essences such as poplar or others since they were often darkened and presented in black.
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The Neobarocco in a large table of '800

Age: 19th Century / 1801 - 1900

19th Century / 1801 - 1900

Main essence: Swiss Pine

The word Cirmolo originates in the Lombard dialects and indicates the wood produced by the pine, a conifer that grows in the Alps above 1600 meters. It is a reddish wood with peculiar knots. It is a soft wood, used for carvings or rustic furniture or for the lacquered furniture of Venetian furniture makers.