Sketch Giuseppe Puricelli 19th Century

Friar Paolo Sarpi Visited By the Council of Ten

Oil on canvas. Signed on the lower left corner. It is a preparatory sketch of the painting that today is preserved inside the Pinacoteca of Castello Sforzesco in Milan. The scene represented concerns an episode of the life of friar Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623), venetian religious of the the Order of Servants of Mary that was theologian, historian and scientist. He was a firm opponent of the monarchical centrality of the Cathholic Church and stood as defevder of the political prerogatives of the Republic of Venice, reason why he was attaked. The represented episode concerns the invastigation carried out by the Council of Ten, judical and police organ of the Venetian Republic, to shed light on the attack to Sarpi. Giuseppe Puricelli Guerra was born in Gallarate but he was artistically formed in Milan, studying at Brera's Academy whe he was sudent of Francesco hayez. He dedicated himself to gender framework, to historical subject and to watercolor. Teh painting comes alonge with coeval frame.

Landscape, attributed to Giovanni Cappelli

Oil on canvas. AT the back there is written "under the master John Cappelli authenticated by Paola Silvestani Hats". THE Hats, he was born in Cesena and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, in his early works proposed figures and environments of a poor, working-class life, bracciantile or marinara, through a realistic style. Since 1959, s i moved to Milan and in contact with the underground city Hats abandons rural stakeholders to focus on the overwhelming reality of the suburbs of milan, telling the condition of humanity degraded and marginalized set in the poor interior or in the dismal and oppressive suburbs of milan. Only starting from the Seventies, these tensions dissolve in precious recoveries of color and in a way that has been called “from the darkness to the light”. The work is presented in a contemporary frame.

Diana and Nymphs Bathing, Oil on Canvas 19th Century

oil on canvas. Italian school. Group of young and beautiful girls half-dressed and overdressed with exotic necklace that are going to bath in a small lake in the woods, while on the left side a man is spying them hidden between the fronds. The scene recall the myth of Diana and Actaeon in a modern key with a representation of a female nude that call to mind an hare, brothel, seen by the artistic revolution of the 19th century as the main key of pleasure of men at the time: recurring is the representation through mythological and historical scene of group of women with board visions of their half-dressed bodies. Added to that there is the myth of the East, of the exotic: Diana and her nymphs are portrayed with oriental clothings and the symbol of the greek goddness, the halfmoon, thet doesn't clearly appear but is recalled by arabesque scenery. Ataeon, instead of being represented as a young and handsome hunter, is aso is presented as a middle-aged bourgeois with intentions of voyeur: it seems that he's choosing on girl. ON the back there are repeated stamps of on old art resale "Pietro Biasutti in Real Posta, Venice". The painting is presented in a style frame.

Portrait male

Pietro Ubertini De Rossi,1776

Oil on canvas.The piedmontese school. In the lower right is an inscription that identifies the character: Pietro Ubertini De Rossi, age 60" and the date of the work of 1776. This character was the father of the more famous Giovanni Bernardo De Rossi, professor of oriental languages at the university of Parma and a great expert in the jewish literature of the medieval. The work, the first canvas, is presented in full frame style.

Pio Joris, sketch

Study for a procession

Oil on cardboard. Signed in the lower right. At the back of this label with the description. A painter, engraver and watercolourist roman, belonging to the circle of followers, the romans, Mariano Fortuny, is known for a style characterized by the mixture of realism and genuine pleasantness of touch, flickers and spirited. His pictorial production has ranged from paintings genre scene, also touching on the portrait. The proposed work is a small study for a procession, a theme he tackled in several works. THE painting is inserted in a passe-partout, without frame.

The landscape of Angel Fiessi

Glimpse of the country covered with snow

Oil on cardboard. Signed Fiessi in the lower right. TO back this further signature to be authentic, with the words "old" and the date 1920. Angel Fiessi, a native of Brescia, he was always very attached to his hometown and to the towns of lake Iseo and the surrounding mountains, which he attended for a long time; landscape painter, he dedicated a great part of its production to evoke the places he loved, and the emotions that stirred up, permeating his paintings of poetry and sweetness. In the frame.

Oscar Di Prata

Abstract composition

Oil on pressed cardboard. Signed in the lower right. Brescian painter, but he got his artistic training at the Academy of Fine arts of Venice, and after the second world war he devoted himself initially to the landscape, especially in the aftermath of his trips to Paris and in the Netherlands. From the fifties onwards, his painting turned towards abstraction. Also known for its frescoes and mosaics. In the composition proposal, stands among a group of geometric figures a little glimpse of the mosaic, almost a rest old emerging from a pile of rubble. In the frame.

Arturo Tosi, attributed to

Flowers

Oil on cardboard. To the rear there is a written agreement with Tosi, with the title of the work. Moreover, although it is of good quality, the style of painting does not seem suited to the production of the artist, it is thought rather a good imitation.

Pair of landscapes in frames of the late '700

Oil on panel. The two landscapes of the NINETEENTH century, from the colors blurred, and in the pink tones of the romantic imprint, are inserted in frames of the late '700. Wooden lacquered to mecca, with the remains of the silver are well-shaped and carved to draw two feet of the animal to the base, and drape the tent is surmounted by a flower, in the upper part; in the four corners, the four flowers.

Sant'antonio Abate

Oil on canvas. The Holy one, considered one of the founders of monasticism, is pictured here with his iconographic attributes (the stick from the pilgrim surmounted by a bell), while meditating in front of a sacred text, and to the Crucified one. The characters of the writing of the book, careful to yield detailed and realistic, suggest a flemish influence. Restored and ritelato.

Francesco Pogliaghi Mixed Technique on Metal Slab 20th-21st Century

Abstract Composition

mixed technique on a metal slab. A big central writing "Nature", applied as collage, is forerun by the letter S that transform the word into "Snature" and is framed by words paited and carved in the color. He was burn in Madrid and moved with his family all over Europe; thanks to the nomadism this youg painter and treet artist could get in touch with the first european expressions of public art. The meeting with graffit dates back to 1996 an it was love at the first sight: the young Pogliaghi attended severals convention getting in touch with the most prestigious italian and foreing experts. His graffiti evolve from year to year, they develop graphically and contaminate the creative produtions of the artist. Pogliaghi tries different expressive techniques achieving a wide and specifc knowladge of the processing of materials: in his prodution we can find illustrations, sculptures, material works, studies of metaphysical structures, chromatic experiments. Central theme of his art works is alway the urban sign that becomes drawing: the calligraphic sign, the "tag", becomes illustration, figure, drawing, concept.

Work of Paolo Masi Contemporary Art

No Title, 1990s

Enamels on wood. Signature and date on the back. Paolo Masi, born in Florance, since the begining of 1950s took part at the experimental elaboration of new artistic techniques that in his city was represented by strong and coherent dropping out of formalism's rules and of every form of academicism, breaking with the past. Masi moved from intial experiences in informal painting and complete abstration to an activity more complex, articulated and diversified on the technical-linguistic level. His strong activiry is knonw in Italy as well as abroad.

The landscape of Antonio Pedretti

Mixed technique on paper. Signed in the lower right. Not allocated to any title, but recall the series of paintings titled "Swampy" for the subject. In the frame.

The work of Jonathan Guaitamacchi

"Centrally", 2015

Mixed on canvas. Signature,date and title on the back. Accompanied by authentic of the artist on the photo.

Assumption of Mary Oil on Canvas Bergamo Italy Mid 1800

Oil on canvas. Probably a preparatory sketch of a larger work commissioned by a church. Strong pathos and fast lines, the work seems to be made by an artist from Bergamo, basing on Giovanni Carnovali's work. The unconventional structure of the painting focuses on the Apostles, while the Virgin Mary is not even depicted. The strong humanity of the Apostles is well represented by their different emotional reactions, which represent the hearts of the believers, according to the artist. The canvas comes from a prestigious private collection. It is presented in an antique gilded frame.

Set of Natural Compositions Attributable to Carlo Antonio Raineri

The group of three compositions, natural

Tempera on paper applied to canvas. The compositions depict different birds and butterflies flying above flowers. Good condition, small spots of moisture. Presented in coeval frames. 18th century.

Architectural Landscape Gilded Frame Tempera 19th Century

Tempera on board. A series of temples adorned with classical statues in a hilly setting. The canvas has a small rip in the middle and color losses. Gilded revival frame. 19th century.

Glimpse of Milan by Natale Addamiano

Castello Sforzesco, 1987-'88

Oil painting on canvas. Signed bottom right. On the back further signature with the date, 1987-'88. Addamiano, born in Bari, trained artistically in Milan, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, where he tought Painting for several years. He has participated in several exhibitions, shows and awards, both Italian and international, in particular in Japan for his collaboration with an important Tokyo gallery. In 2018 in the exhibition entitled "Addamiano, a painting that tells the light", he was the protagonist of his first personal exhibition in Rome. He lives and works in Milan, to which he has dedicated several works, such as this small but intense glimpse of the Castello Sforzesco.

Oil on Canvas "The Matterhorn Seen from Zermatt" by Ezio Parrini

The Matterhorn seen from Zermatt

Oil on canvas, "The Matterhorn seen from Zermatt", landscape by Ezio Parrini. Signed bottom left. Presented in decorated frame.