Antique Baroque Columns Baroque Linden Coat of Arms XVIII Century - Italy, Early XVIII Century

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Italy, Early XVIII Century

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Italy, Early XVIII Century

Style:  Baroque (1630-1730)

Age:  18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Origin:  Firenze, Italy

Main essence:  Linden

Description

Pair of baroque columns, on the front they are decorated with a large carved coat of arms, partially gilded and lacquered. The coat of arms is inserted between baroque scrolls composed of curls and festoons and refers to the Soldani-Benzi family, originally from Montevarchi but also based in Florence in Santa Croce. The columns, from the Baroque period, correspond to the life period of the famous Massimiliano Soldani Benzi (1656-1740), Florentine painter, sculptor and medallist. Lacquered and gilded with a mission, they bear the family coat of arms as described in the Florentine state archives, Quartered: in the 1st of silver, with two raised bands of azure; in the 2nd party, a/ of azure, with a darting dolphin in a pale of gold, b/ banded ruffled of azure and gold; in the 3rd of azure, with three bands of gold each charged with three roses of red; in the 4th of silver, with a reversed chevron of red. Resumptions in the lacquering and gilding

Product Condition:
Product that due to age and wear requires restoration and polishing. We try to present the real condition of the furniture as completely as possible with the photos. If some details are not clear from the photos, what is reported in the description is valid.

Dimensions (cm):
Height: 113,5
Width: 59
Depth: 38

Maximum size (cm):
Height: 115
Depth: 39,5

Additional Information

Style: Baroque (1630-1730)

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The term derives from the Spanish barrueco phoneme or Portuguese barroco and literally means "shapeless pearl".

Already around the middle of the eighteenth century in France it was synonymous with uneven, irregular, bizarre, while in Italy the term was of Medieval memory and indicated a figure of the syllogism, an abstraction of thought.

This historical period was identified with the derogatory term 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, seventeenth-century and seventeenth-century were synonymous with bad taste.

As regards furniture, freedom of ideation, need for pomp and virtuosity gave rise to a synergy destined to produce unsurpassed masterpieces.

The materials used 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 in shape and imagination virtually gave life to the Arabian Nights of many of our powerful people.

Typical of the period were load-bearing or accessory parts resolved with twisted column motifs, clearly inspired by Bernini's canopy of St. Peter's, parts with rich sculptural carving in high relief and even in the round within a vortex of volutes, scrolls and spirals, curved and broken profiles, cymatiums agitated by gables of articulated shape, aprons adorned with ornaments, corbels, buttresses and so on. necessary to enliven shapes and structures.

The Baroque is also the century of illusionism: lacquers and thin temperas crowd furniture and furnishings to imitate with the marbling effects of marble veining or games of veining of precious briar roots.

Find out more about the Baroque with our insights:

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Age: 18th Century / 1701 - 1800

18th Century / 1701 - 1800

Main essence: Linden

It is a soft, whitish and light wood, used in the past for inlay and carving works.

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Antique Baroque Columns Baroque Linden Coat of Arms XVIII Century

Italy, Early XVIII Century

Code: ANMOAL0240094

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