Baroque Console Wood - Italy XVIII Century
Features
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800
Origin: Genova, Italy
Main essence: Wood
Material: Wood
Description
Genoa baroque console, supported by wavy legs carved by rocaille motifs, are connected by crossbar with a central shell element; the apron, both on the front and on the sides, is carved and perforated with scrolls and leaf motifs. Entirely gilded in Mecca, probably in the 19th century, the shaped top is marbled.
Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and resumption of polishing.
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 87
Width: 138
Depth: 65
Certificate issued by: Enrico Sala
Additional Information
Style: Barocchetto (1720-1770)
With this term we designate, for what specifically relates to furniture, a part of the production carried out in Italy in the period of time between the Rococo era and the first phase of neoclassicism.It is characterized by the formal and decorative structure still rigidly adhering to the dictates dear to the Baroque period (hence the term baroque) and to the Louis XIV fashions and yet the new times are captured in the adoption of smaller volumes, more decorative modules. elegant, often directly inspired by French fashion, but always executed with rigorous principles of ornamental symmetry.
The tendency to assimilate formal and volumetric novelties but not to incorporate their ornamental elaboration finds natural explanation in Italy in the fact that in this century the great aristocracy experienced an unstoppable political and economic decline.
If in the previous century there was a great profusion of furnishings destined to adorn newly built homes, to proudly show the power of the client family, in the eighteenth century they rather take care to update the building with only the furniture strictly necessary for the new needs imposed by fashion or functional needs.
The old scenographic apparatus is maintained and the new must not contrast too much.
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