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HOW TO GET TO MODENAFIERE

Arriving by plane:
By car the exhibition center is only 20 minutes far from Bologna Marconi Airport. It is available also a shuttle service to Modena. For detailed information www.aerbus.it
Flight information: www.bologna-airport.it
In addition, the exhibition center is 45 minutes far from Verona Catullo Airport and one hour and 15 minutes from Milan Linate Airport

Arriving by train:
Travel with ITALO and benefit from special fares in 1st Class (the discount is applied to the Flex fare, Low Cost economy promotional fares are excluded). Discounts cannot be combined with other offers or promotions.
Tickets must concern travel to/from Bologna or Modena.
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From the station you can take bus no. 9 that will take you directly to the exhibition center (Bus Stop: Fiera, it is near the entrance).
Reach Modena by train and take advantage of special discounts.

Arriving by car:
A1motorway: Exit Modena Nord, at the intersection with the Brenner motorway. The exhibition center can also be reached from the north and south ring roads of Modena.

Arriving by pubblic trasport:
The exhibition center can be reached taking the bus no. 9 of the urban transport line (Bus Stop: Fiera, it is near the entrance). For further information: www.setaweb.it

Arriving by taxi:
– 10% discount for the routes:
Modena Train Station – ModenaFiere
ModenaFiere – Modena Train Station
Discounts are reserved for COTAMO Taxis, control the abbreviations placed on the front sides of the taxis.
Radiotaxi tel 0039/059/374242

MODENANTIQUARIA 37th ANTIQUE SHOW

The treasure chest of Beauty reveals its secrets and treasures at ModenaFiere.
A sought-after destination and meeting point for art collectors, designers, Experts in search of masterpieces for large international collections or museums and lovers of art and refinement.

PROJECTS AND LANDSCAPES BETWEEN CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY
30th EDITION

Petra is renewed, in a new format dedicated to the outdoors, which combines the past and the present, the ancient and the modern, the classic and the contemporary, between city and countryside.

Petra becomes the exhibition dedicated to landscape design between classic and contemporary.

ITALIAN MASTERPIECES FROM THE 13TH TO THE 20TH CENTURY, III EDITION

Modenantiquaria presents the second edition of Sculptura new thematic space dedicated to Sculpture which consolidates the ambition to become an annual event for all collectors and enthusiasts. In recent years, sculpture has awakened an exceptional market interest: it is therefore the project that was missing, a suitable place to learn about new trends, authors, proposals, and quotations.

This thirtieth edition of Petra saw the birth of two new thematic areas “DOMUS PETRA” by Giulio Cappellini, the hybridization between indoor and outdoor in the city, and “SLOW GARDEN LIFESTYLE“, by Marta Meda and Luca Fois, an installation that explores, thanks to a selection of high design objects and materials from the most prestigious Italian and international brands, the new aesthetics of the landscape.

We thank the architects and designers who contributed to the creation of this new project:
Antonella Grossi
Marta Meda
Luca Fois
Giulio Cappellini
Leonardo Talarico
Ilaria Marelli

We thank the “Friends of the Landscape” Committee made up of:
Mauro Felicori – Councilor for Culture and Landscape of the Emilia Romagna Region
Gianluca Cristoni – President Biohabitat
Marco Filippucci – President of the Emilia Romagna Architects Federation
Luca Fois – Creative Advisor
Antonella Grossi – ModenaFiere Consultant
Marco Momoli – CEO of ModenaFiere
Ruggero Moncada Di Paternò – Architect
Roberto Pasini – Full Professor of Landscape Architecture – ALMA Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Judith Wade – President of Grandi Giardini Italiani

Thanks to Gianluca Cristoni and to Daniela Campogrande for the setup!

Thanks to all the exhibitors:
DOMUS PETRA:
Artelinea
Cassina
CC Tapis
Ceramica Flaminia
Ethimo
Icone Luce
Lapis Vitae
Olmar
Paolelli Garden
Steeles
Travertino Toscano
Treesse
Vetrine Empoli

PETRA:
Antichità Amore
Antichità Davide
Antihità San Martino
Antichità Storchi Paolo
Antichità Tuci Rita
Antonio Magni Antichità
Arte Arredo Andriollo
Atelier du Bois
Bovo Alberto
Campagnola Restauro – Restauro opere d’arte
Copetti antiquari
Eurekart di Paolo Sessa
Green Code
Historya restauri e decorazioni
Il mercante Antichità
Miele di Giovanna dalla Turca
Orvieto Arte
Pavarani Enrico “Atelier del Design”
Piera Giglio
Salpa di Pisani Paolo
Scalabrini Marco Antichità

Thanks to:
Order of architects, planners, landscape architects and conservators of Modena

We look forward to seeing you next year at Petra ModenaFiere!

Here we are with the second thanks news dedicated to the antique dealers who supported us and who we hope will be with us next year too!

THANK YOU:
Antiques Scarapazzi
E.L.A. Antichità
Antichità G.N. di Luciano Guagenti
Liberty Art Nouveau di Tina Biazzi e figlie
Galleria La Torre
Galleria “Le due Torri”
Santa Barbara Art Gallery
L.M. Gallery
Blu Old Sheffield
Antichità Fabrizio Fallavena
Galleria Mason
Arte-Moda
Merigo Art Books
Bertacchi Orfeo Antichità
Bulgarelli Fausto
Gems and Antiques
Milani Antichità
Big/Ciaccioarte
SA Fine Art
B& Facchini
Galleria Giamblanco
Galleria Roberto Ducci
Art Decoratif
Ossimoro Galleria d’Arte
Galleria d’Arte San Barnaba
Galerie de Cicco
Les Galeries du Luxembourg
Egidi Madeinitaly
Quadreria dell’800
Conti Caponi Galleria
Gallerie Maspes
Art Studio Pedrazzini
Antichità La Bagatelle
Federico Andrisani
Galleria 900
Optima Cecchetto Antiquario
Barbieri Fine Art
Il mercante antichità
I Volpini
Atelier du Bois
Bottega d’Arte
Sine Tempore Studio
Galleria d’Arte Bentivegna
Odisseus Antiques
Paolo Campopiano
Amici delle Gallerie Estensi

Ancient art conquers audiences and sales!

Target achieved: the quality of the galleries present is very high – with the most important nationally and big international names – and of the works proposed, sales are good.

SCULPTURA:
Botticelli Antichità
Alessandra Di Castro
Mearini Fine Art
Cantore Galleria Antiquaria
Secol-Art di Davide Masoero
Carlo Orsi
Walter Padovani
Longari Arte Milano
Altomani & Sons
Giovanni Asioli Martini Antiquariato
Brun Fine Art
Maurizio Nobile Fine Art
Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art
Galleria Gomiero
Galleria del Caminetto
Copetti Antiquari

“Ancient art is going through an excellent moment, in the sense that great masterpieces are holding up the market perfectly, proof of which is that after two three hundred years of collecting ancient art is still the most coveted product in Italy.

I always refer to the Italian market because I consider Italy the true homeland of ancient art, sculpture is an essential, fundamental part of it.

The work I am exhibiting at Sculptura 2024, is realized by a Venetian sculptor from Treviso, Giovanni Comin, between 600 and 700.

The work perfectly represents our times, the times of vanity, years in which we focus too much on the external appearance, on beauty and on what appears, sometimes losing sight of the true meanings of life!” Bruno Botticelli

Thank you Fabrizio for honoring us with your presence!

“Ancient art is a niche market, a market for the sophisticated person, but Modenantiquaria has always been a place where all woodworm lovers always come.

I began my career as a dealer here in 1999 and I remember this audience who was passionate about paintings, sculptures, furniture and tapestries.

This is Modena, a beautiful market where you can find everything and more and it makes us understand again how much love for art and for the art market exists in the Italian province.”

Thanks Fabrizio Moretti

“Total immersion in one of the peculiar dimensions of Italy, the country with the greatest antiquarian intensity in the world, where creative production and the pleasure of being surrounded by it have their privileged residence. It is the Modenantiquaria now in its XXXVII Edition, the most important showcase in Italy, where the best antique dealers in the country, and beyond, meet with buyers from all over the world to give circulation to beauty.

Around it are celebrated the marriage of passions and business, pleasures and investments, furniture, paintings, objects and a special section for sculpture, a large department dedicated to exteriors, the traditional PETRA, classic and modern, ancient and contemporary, every predilection can be found here its satisfaction and also for those who are not directly interested in purchasing it is an extraordinary opportunity to form, forge and increase one’s taste.

Wandering around the stands and pavilions of Modenantiquaria is truly a rewarding experience.”
Tommaso Ricci

Modenantiquaria: the Beauty of History, the Prestige of Tradition until February 18th at ModenaFiere!

LIVE shots live from Modenantiquaria 2024: great Timeless Art!

Lampronti Gallery – Il Correggio 22
Altomani & Sons – The Carracci 11
Mearini Fine Art – Guido Reni 4

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced admission €12
For reductions, consult our website on the INFO Times and Tickets page

Modenantiquaria: the Beauty of History, the Prestige of Tradition until February 18th at ModenaFiere!

LIVE shots live from Modenantiquaria 2024: great Timeless Art!

Longari Arte Milano – Guido Reni 5
Enrico Gallerie d’Arte – Il Guercino 5
Verdini Antiques – Il Guercino 1

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced admission €12
For reductions, consult our website on the INFO Times and Tickets page

The lion is the image of royalty and the embodiment of heroic debut.

In Buddhism, the lion symbolizes courage, dignity, and stability.
It is believed that Buddha, in one of his incarnations, had the appearance of a lion.

In China, the lion was associated with the idea of power.

The characteristics of the lion can be admired in the images of mythical creatures, such as: the sphinx, the griffin, and the chimera.

Images of lionesses as guards are common in Egypt, Assyria and Babylon, India.
In medieval bestiaries, the lion is endowed with the ability to sleep with his eyes open, and for this reason, he is also heard as the embodiment of an alert guard for your home!

In heraldry, the lion represents strength, virtue and prudence.
The lion in Christianity stands out as an ambivalent figure.
The roar of the lion is like the word of God and the devil, “like a roaring lion.”

The lion, as interpreted by Jerome, symbolizes the evangelist Mark, who announces the royal dignity of Christ.
It is also the emblem of the Son of God and endowed with a penchant for contemplation, asceticism and solitude.

Dante describes it as a symbol of pride.

In many esoteric traditions, the lion is a symbol of the sun.

In Freemasonry, the lion represents power and glory; the top of the Royal Arch, where the sun returns during the summer solstice.

In the mysteries of Mithras, those who successfully passed the tests were called “lions”.

Isaiah’s prophecy provides the biblical symbolism of the lion, resting peacefully beside the sheep.

In Christian legend, we find Daniel with the lions in the den together.

For Jung, the lion in nature is a symbol of hidden passions, it can indicate the risk of being absorbed by the unconscious.

In alchemy, the lion is the symbol of raw, untreated material.
In combination with three other animals, it is an element of the earth.

The Earth lion is the enemy of the celestial eagle, master of nature, spokesperson of strength and support of the masculine principle.
It is the actual “red” symbol.
The winged lion is the element of fire: “Philosophical Fire”.
Two lions represent constant struggle, sunlight, morning, royalty, and victory.

In Greece, the lion was the emblem of the calendar.
In spring Dionysus could take on the appearance of a lion.

In heraldic systems, lion means prudence, firmness and strength of mind.

Impressive and proud lions await you in Petra 2024 until February 18!

“WE ARE VERY HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS WE HAVE HAD SO FAR, 120 ANTIQUE GALLERIES for an edition of true excellence.

The event is the LEADER event in our country for high-level antiques and is always accompanied by two other important events: “PETRA”, this year with a truly new style dealing with all that concerns the furnishing of both classical and contemporary art of outdoor spaces and landscapes, and SCULPTURA, a section dedicated to sculptural works from the 13th to the 20th century.”

GREAT EVENTS IN MODENA UNTIL FEBRUARY 18!!!”

Modenantiquaria: the Beauty of History, the Prestige of Tradition until February 18th at ModenaFiere!

LIVE shots from Modenantiquaria 2024: great Timeless Art!

Cantore Galleria Antiquaria – Guido Reni 1
Fondantico di Tiziana Sassoli – I Carracci 1
Phidias Antiques – Guido Reni 2

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced admission €12
For reductions, consult our website.

The “Jerome” squirrel by Red Hook is the realization of an idea that combines imagination with absolute quality.

Technological research inspired by creativity.

An experience, a journey into the exceptional nature of everyday life.

Jerome the squirrel is an elegant guardian of light and color!

Beauty has no dimension and Red Hook has created Jerome XXL which is giant like your dreams and Jerome medium so you can always have it next to you!

Come to Petra until February 18th at ModenaFiere to choose your favorite size!

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Tickets:
Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced access at the price of €12

The Mirco Cattai Gallery presents the Kazak carpets, among the most significant of this area: Kazak with swastikas, karaciof and Bordjialu, a large Star Kazak and three Transilvania carpets, a Lotto ushak, a double niche and a Tintoretto ushak.

The making of a carpet has a very rich meaning.

The carpet’s spine, the warp yarns, evoke the immutable and divine axis of the world, which connects the earth to the sky, while the horizontal weft yarns symbolize the infinite weaving of worlds and destinies. The carpet is an image of the universe, where creatures are knotted and woven by God on the chain of his omniscience.

Depending on its decoration, it is also an abstract figure of the soul, its balance and its complexity.

Each carpet is a world in miniature and reflects the ideals, values and life of a community. It leads to the invisible, to the threshold of the soul.

Mirco Cattai awaits you in Modenantiquaria from 10 to 18 February: pure magic to experience!

Orvieto Arte, the great protagonist of Petra 2024, has real “winter gardens” in store for you, customizable in size, paint, number and type of doors and windows; heavy and solid structures that can be paved with stone, tuff, marble, travertine, wood or brick.

A rest area for you and your family, a study area surrounded by greenery, a winter garden to shelter your plants, your flowers or lemons!

Orvieto Arte awaits you in Petra until February 18th at ModenaFiere!

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Tickets:
Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced admission €12
For reductions, consult the website on the INFO page Timetables and tickets.

Animalier portraiture pays particular attention to the ethological component, paying a real homage to the animal kingdom both in terms of morphology and character, often placed in anthropocentric contexts, the subjects never lose the ancestral nature of the species.

The artists who dedicated their careers to this theme, which for centuries remained a niche genre where the human figure is almost totally excluded or placed in the background, were first and foremost great enthusiasts and connoisseurs.

After an accurate study, they spent endless moments of observation in close contact with the subjects, exposed to any atmospheric condition, creating an infinite number of sketches to capture the best pose to translate onto canvas or transform into material as regards sculpture.

Many works, as in this case, are precious testimonies of the evolutionary phase that concerns the various species. In the dog world as well as in the equestrian world, breeds have undergone significant transformations based on the aptitude developed in activities in close contact with humans.

RV Art Gallery Studio IS WAITING FOR YOU among cats, dogs, horses… man’s best friends… because Modenantiquaria is also this!

This is a rare pair of modeled stucco objects depicting oriental characters, with robes that determine a high rank of belonging, in use as a compendium of furnishings in the Chinese cabinets present in the Savoy Royal Palaces (and not only) from the first half of the 18th century.

To highlight this, two images are explanatory and exhaustive, one taken from the catalog of the 1963 Piedmontese Baroque exhibition curated by Vittorio Viale, it is Room ; the other is the full-page publication in the series Mobili Regionali Italiani – Il Piemonte by Elio Quaglino, Ed. Gorlich, of the female figure.

The exceptionality is the recent discovery of the male figure on the antiques market which makes these objects UNIQUE.
The provenance also certifies the passage from the prestigious Antique Gallery of Armando Colombari in Turin (the paper stamps of the time are present) and subsequently to a prestigious private collection in Turin (which intends to remain anonymous).

The rarity of the objects is further strengthened by the fact that similar works in polychrome painted stucco were often created in Piedmont, of which, however, nineteenth-century replicas also exist.

Secol Art awaits you with the magic of the East at Sculptura 2024 from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

COUPLE OF DIGNITARIES
Modeled and patinated stucco, painted with golden motifs and traces of profiles in the tone of blue
Piedmontese modeller of the mid-18th century.
H. 74 cm. diameter of the base approximately 20 cm.

JOIE is an elegant table football for true connoisseurs!!
Completely made of metal, with attention to the smallest details with cork knobs and ball!

FLIP is a very comfortable and refined seat with two stations and a coordinated table which, when turned, transforms into a chaise longue with footrest, the maximum leisure to enjoy on your terrace or in your garden!!

We are waiting for you at Petra 2024…until February 18th, ModenaFiere Pad. B!

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Tickets:
Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced access at the price of €12

Saturday 10 February, at 6.00 pm, Meeting Area pad. A,
“COLLECTING AND HERITAGE. Passions in comparison” with

Toto Bergamo Rossi, Director Venetian Heritage,
Alessandra Di Castro, Vice President of AAI,
Stefano Aluffi Pentini, Art Historian,
Tommaso Pasquali, Art Historian, Director of Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna

Leonardo Piccinini, moderator.

MODENANTIQUARIA: the Beauty of History, the Prestige of Tradition

UNTIL FEBRUARY 18th at ModenaFiere!

Fade is a family of furnishings that stands out for a vibrant surface and particular finishes that restore the effect of natural materials such as stone and granite.
Dream objects starting from:

Fade Coffee Table Structure, a low table that requires an HPL top, to be chosen separately.
Fade Chair, a comfortable armchair with a redone surface with finishes that appear natural.
Fade Table Lamp, a small waterfall of light that can be positioned anywhere.
The ridged surface of the base creates a singular play of shadows.
Fade Table Lamp Metal the new proposal that illuminates every room with a cascade of light.

Picta presents spectacular
Material bottles
Tower vases
Amphora vases
Conical Vases
Flower pots

all in scratched finish available in 3 colors, carbon black, sand and lava red.

Come to Petra to discover an enchanted world…handmaids and vestals for the protection of your home and family, mischievous elves who come to life, Olympian gods and winged lions await you until February 18th!

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Tickets:
Entrance ticket €15 on sale at ModenaFiere
Reduced access at the price of €12

The Novara sculptor Alessandro Rondoni (1841- post 1898) was one of the most talented students of Vincenzo Vela at the Albertina Academy in Turin, at least until 1867; he later perfected himself and worked in Rome and Naples.

Sira is one of his first compositions to have received widespread approval from the public and critics.

The subject chosen by the artist is taken from the historical novel, well known at the time, set in ancient Rome and entitled Fabiola or the Church of the Catacombs, published in 1854 by the high prelate of Irish origins (but born in Seville) N.P.S. Wiseman (later also Archbishop of Westminster).

It also featured the tragic story of the slave Sira owned by the young and beautiful mistress Fabiola. Sira in the novel has Middle Eastern origins and is of Christian faith.

In the interpretation given by the Italian sculptor, the slave wears a bracelet decorated with a cross and the monogram of Christ. Rondoni’s composition captures the moment following the wounding of Sira’s arm with a stiletto by the mistress, of pagan faith, offended by the words full of Christian brotherhood uttered by her slave.

Compared to the martyry and virginal figure of the slave outlined in the Irish prelate’s novel, the sacral component of the subject is somewhat toned down in Rondoni’s work, which connotes the young and beautiful figure of a human charge, at times sensual, well in line with the ‘realist’ taste of the time, so much so that the painter Costantino Abbatecola, commenting on the marble version today at the Gallery of Modern Art in Palermo, highlighted precisely these aspects with some emphasis, concluding: «one of those ideal slaves who would would drive a master who was lucky enough to own her and to understand the beauties of her face and heart to go mad.”
Sira awaits you in Phidias Antiques in Modenantiquaria 2024 until February 18th!

Alessandro Rondoni
“Sira”, 1873.
Polychrome marbles, burnished bronze and golden mosaic at the base.
Circular base with a rotating movement hinge.
Titled «SIRA» in capital letters and signed in italics «A. Rondoni / Rome» at the base.

Marco Longari returns to Modenantiquaria “with great vigor and enthusiasm – he states – because this is the first truly important event of the year.

It is an exhibition in which you really have a finger on the pulse of the situation in the world of art, an exhibition that has the patronage of the Association of Antique Dealers of Italy which guarantees a quality mark.

I present an object from my exhibition, this incredible “Lion’s Head“, a marble fragment probably from a shelf. It is a Lombard lion head from the late 13th and early 14th centuries.

I chose it because I find it to be a very modern object despite being so medieval. With this incredible decoration in the hair, it is an object that would look good among works of contemporary art.” concludes Longari.

Marco Longari, the great International Protagonist at Modenantiquaria 2024, awaits you until February 18th at the Guido Reni 5 stand.

Thank you Marco Longari for honoring us with your presence!

Architect Antonella Grossi, Petra 2024 Consultant, talks to us about this great, completely renovated Edition:

“Petra in its 30th Edition wanted to transform itself by trying to open the world of antique garden furniture towards the themes of design, outdoor, landscape and contemporary equipment and furniture.

This first edition in which the classic is combined with the contemporary sees the presence of two installations:

the first is Interior design with the inclusion of elements designed by international designers in which the indoor part is closely related to the outdoor part as in the ancient houses in Pompei.

The second installation concerns the SLOW GARDEN LIFESTYLE curated by Marta Meda and Luca Fois, in which contemporary objects inspire everyday external life.”

Daughters of Zeus and Eurymone, the three girls are the personification of female beauty and grace. The Greek poet Hesiod in his Theogony recalls their names: Euphrosyne (the Joy), Aglae, (the Splendor) and Talìa, (the Prosperity).

Divinities placed between heaven and earth, with the single, very important task of implementing harmony in the world through the arts that make the soul of men more noble, the Three Graces are among the most positive figures of the mythology of the ancients.

Among the Greeks they were called Charites (in ancient Greek Χάριτες) and became the Graces (in Latin Gratiae) in Roman mythology.

Probably since the origin of the myth linked to the cult of nature and vegetation, they are also the goddesses of the joy of living and spread the liveliness of Nature in the hearts of gods and mortals.

The Three Graces, joy, splendor and prosperity, await you in Verdini Antiques, stand Guercino 1, at Modenantiquari 2024 until February 18th!

PETRA 2024 LIVE photos!

From Slow Garden Lifestyle, by Marta Meda and Luca Fois, for you the “DiamondFire” barbecue “ELEGANCE” collection by DiamondFire.

DiamondFire transforms the way of cooking, thanks to its unique and unmistakable technical characteristics that combine cooking excellence with a modern design style that is easily adaptable to any living and dining context.

The DIAMONDFIRE Barbecue has a double cooking zone: the first directly on the grill, placed right above the brazier, the second on the lava stone of volcanic origin which collects and separates the fats.

Honest, erudite, with Junoesque beauty and languid charm: the Heroine of Christianity “Saint Ursula” by Simone Pignoni by Maurizio Nobile Fine Art.

Ursula is a figure of Saint celebrated above all in the Middle Ages thanks to her unshakable firmness in her faith, pushed to the point of martyrdom.

His story has spanned the centuries between history and legend, inspiring the compositions of writers, musicians and artists of colour; among the latter, the Flemish Memling (1434 – 1494), Carpaccio (circa 1460 – 1525/1526), Tintoretto (1518 – 1594) and Caravaggio (1571 – 1610).

The story tells of a beautiful princess, Ursula, daughter of the Christian king of Britain.

Honest and wise, she lived by consecrating her life choices to the Lord when she was desired by the powerful and overbearing king of England as his son’s bride.

The messengers sent by the king received the refusal of Orsola’s father who instead did not refuse the marriage request, after having been inspired by God in a dream, who instructed her to ask for 10 virgins alongside to go on a pilgrimage to Rome, alongside others a thousand virgins for himself and for each of the others. Another condition was that the betrothed converted to Christianity.

It took 3 years to prepare the ships for the large group of girls, three years to prepare for the new life and the conversion to the Christian faith of the betrothed, in the hope that he could then come to understand his vocation and had therefore renounced the I intend to marry her.

Once the conditions were accepted, preparations began, while the virgins came to gather from every part of the earth.

Under the leadership of Orsola, the immense procession set off crossing the sea at the English Channel with a fleet of eleven ships. The fleet landed in Gaul, and went up the Rhine to Switzerland; Orsola and her entourage continued the pilgrimage, reaching Rome, gathering crowds of faithful.

On their return, having arrived in Cologne which was at the time besieged by the Huns, the virgins were murdered by the barbarians.

Orsola was first spared by Attila who, struck by her beauty, wanted her as his wife; then, when she refused the tyrant, she was pierced with an arrow.

“Simone Pignoni, an artist of the 1600s, famous for his female representations, paints Orsola dying but at the same time languid and sensual, with a Junoesque beauty very dear to the painter.” Attilio Luigi Ametta.

SIMONE PIGNONI
Saint Ursula
Oil painting on canvas

A hymn to Nature, a fusion between ancient and contemporary for your garden or terrace: Petra 2024 is your dream come true!

We are waiting for you until February 18th at ModenaFiere, pavilion B!

Timetables:
from Monday to Wednesday from 3.00 pm to 7.00 pm
from Thursday to Sunday from 10.30 am to 7.00 pm

Carlo Beretta was remembered in local literature, just over a decade after his death, as “the most famous sculptor that the city of Milan had at the time”.

Active in the first half of the eighteenth century, during his long career he had sculpted many statues for the cathedral of his city, but perhaps he had given his best on other construction sites, from the church of San Gaudenzio in Novara to the Castle of Belgioioso, where he was able demonstrate his particular skills as a modeler in wax and terracotta.

The four imaginary portraits confirm how Beretta’s most interesting results are linked to the use of plastic materials.

These four busts must be understood as genre figures, each intended to illustrate a human type which probably also had an allegorical meaning underlying it, a typology of works in some ways comparable to the so-called “character heads” which had been produced since the second half of the seventeenth century. in large quantities by the sculptors of the Serenissima, but which in the Lombard area was presented without the more loaded and grotesque expressive accents dear to their Venetian counterparts.

Walter Padovani awaits you at SCULPTURA 2024 until February 18th at ModenaFiere!

Carlo Beretta
(Milan 1687-1764)
Four allegorical portraits
Terracotta, h. 60cm

Petra 2024 is pure emotion!

Masterpieces of ancient and contemporary art for your green space: Petra is the place to make your wishes come true, we are waiting for you!

You can find the right solution for you here…at ModenaFiere until February 18th!

Petra is a world waiting to be discovered, a fusion between ancient and contemporary, a hymn to gardens and greenery!

Who was Mariano Fortuny?
Mariano Fortuny perfectly embodied the Wagnerian concept of a total work of art, a canon that animated all his inventions, inimitable mixes of styles and influences, which drew on the past or on remote cultures and places, created, however, with the most innovative technologies.
His haute couture garments and fabrics are unique and unparalleled, Fortuny was also a painter, engraver, photographer, set designer, creator of electric lamps and furnishing elements and a revolutionary in theatrical lighting.

Mariano Fortuny and Henriette established their atelier in Venice, a laboratory located on the top floor of Palazzo Pesaro degli Orfei – later transformed into a museum – where some of the most extraordinary creations of the twentieth century in the fields of fashion and design came to light.
Pleated silk dresses, velvet coats and shawls with intricate ethnic motifs are an expression of timeless style, so much so that they can be worn today as items of clothing of unparalleled contemporary refinement. The lamps he designed are also current and modern, and are still chosen by international architects and designers as precious furnishing elements.

Vincenzo Gemito, a timeless great, dedicated a masterpiece from the Arabian Nights to him!
Certainly, the instinctive temperament, the equally disinherited youth and the realist training contributed to the sensual and sentimental warmth in narrating the experience of reality.
Of a restless and overbearing nature, he spent a poor and turbulent adolescence, bonding with his peer Antonio Mancini, known as Totonno, even in his early artistic experiences. He attended the studios of two sculptors: he was a boy in the workshop of Emanuele Caggiano and, at twelve years old, of Stanislao Lista, promoter of the study of life in sculpture.

On April 23rd. In 1864 he was admitted to follow courses at the Royal Institute of Fine Arts, but rather sought inspiration in the alleys of the ancient center and in the Guillaume circus located at the Bellini theatre. His debut at the exhibition of the Society promoting fine arts of Naples where he exhibited the Player dates back to 1868. In this work – purchased by Vittorio Emanuele II for the Capodimonte collections – he adopted pictorial and vibrant modeling to suggest the concreteness of the visual experience and the spontaneity of the Neapolitan vernacular reality.

Gemito confirmed these formal innovations in the Portrait of the painter Petrocelli (Naples, Minozzi collection) created around 1869, as proof of the intolerance towards the academic codification of sculptural art, which was then moving between the uncertainties of romanticism and the latest results of the current canovian. Furthermore, together with other artists rebelling against official art – including, in addition to Mancini, Giovanni Battista Amendola, Vincenzo Buonocore, Achille D’Orsi, Luigi Fabron, Ettore Ximenes – Gemito rented a studio in the former convent of S Andrea delle Dame. Here the delicate heads dated 1870-72 and preserved in Naples took shape, admirable for the liveliness of their looks and naturalness of attitudes, such as Moretto, Scugnizzo and Fiociniere, Fanciulla velata and Malatiello; these sculptures were made in terracotta, a plastic medium congenial to the realistic interpretation of the subject, due to the free variations of planes and the mobile luminous vibrations.

Vincenzo GEMITO (Naples 1852 – 1929)
Portrait of Mariano Fortuny, c. 1880

16 prestigious galleries for an unforgettable exhibition to say the least!

Botticelli Antichità
Alessandra Di Castro
Brun Fine Art
Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art
Altomani & Sons
Maurizio Nobile Fine Art,
Carlo Orsi
Cantore Galleria Antiquaria
Longari Arte Milano
Asioli Martini
Galleria del Caminetto
Walter Padovani
Galleria Gomiero
Secol Art di Davide Masoero
Mearini Fine Art
Copetti Antiquari

31 Works from One Thousand and One Nights until February 18th at ModenaFiere, Pavilion A!

The Domus Petra by Giulio Cappellini is unmissable, a true hybridization between indoor and outdoor in the city.

The Domus Petra is an exploration of the desire for green of those who live in cities where design and architecture dialogue with landscaping and history.

LIVE shots of the prestigious Galleria Fondantico by Tiziana Sassoli, AliceFineArt and 800/900 Artstudio.

Modenantiquaria awaits you until February 18th at ModenaFiere, Pavilion A.

Prestigious galleries, Timeless masterpieces:
the Beauty of History and the Prestige of Tradition await you at ModenaFiere until February 18th!

In Modenantiquaria you can also find Diabolik and his legendary car in Secol-Art Antichità by Davide Masoero!

Timeless masterpieces of unparalleled beauty await you at Modenantiquaria until February 18th, stand Guido Reni 19!

Petra is a world to discover, a fusion between ancient and contemporary that will amaze you!

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To be continued… stay connected for other photos of Domus Petra, Slow Garden Lifestyle and …

This sculptural masterpiece in bronze by Aldo Andreani by MAURIZIO NOBILE FINE ART is suggestive and disturbing.

SUBLIME DANCER Perhaps not everyone knows the story we tell below.

The Russian naturalized Italian Jia Ruskaja, stage name of Eugenia Borisenko (Kerch, Crimea, 1902 – Rome, 1970), after classical and musical studies, moved to Italy, dedicating herself to dance. Belonging to the so-called free dance movement, he chose a style that was linked to the postulates of the Greek-Mediterranean trend already adopted at the beginning of the century by Isadora Duncan.

Nicknamed by her contemporaries the “Aristocrat of dance”, Jia Ruskaja moved to Rome in 1923 making her debut at the Teatro degli Indipendenti directed by Anton Giulio Bragaglia.

After opening a dance school in Milan, he gave his choreographic contribution to the shows of the Greek Theater of Syracuse and in other places of equal structure and environment.

From 1932 to 1934 she was co-director of the Teatro alla Scala Dance School and in 1936 she presented her school at the Berlin Olympics.

In 1940 she moved to Rome where she founded the Royal Dance School which in 1948 transformed into the National Dance Academy, of which she held the position of director until her death.

Aldo Andreani portrays the dancer during her Milanese period, the moment of her greatest Italian fame. Suggestive and moving, the bronze is set on the diagonal, ensuring that the synthetic portrait of Ruskaja, composed and with hollow eyelids reminiscent of Wildtia, is found in the center of the large cloak that encircles her bare shoulders.

The nervous jerk of the head turning to the right then highlights the presence of the young woman’s long braids, a brilliant compositional complement that is anything but secondary to the work.

Andreani exhibited this bronze at the XIX Venice Biennale in 1934 and presented it again in 1938 at the XXXV Anni exhibition of the Pesaro Gallery in Milan.

Maurizio Nobile Fine Art awaits you at Modenantiquaria 2024 from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Aldo Andreani Mantua, 1887 – Milan, 1971 Jia Ruskaja, (Portrait of Jia Ruskaja),

(Portrait), (1934).
Bronze h. 57cm.
Signed: Aldo Andreani
Exhibitions: Venice, 1934; Milan, 1938.

MAURIZIO NOBILE FINE ART awaits you from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Greek legend tells of Venus as She who incited love in the hearts of men and gods and lorded over all creation with this great power.

Venus is the Goddess of those who risk for love: “You must dare: Venus herself helps those who have courage.
If a young man tries a threshold first, she indulges him and if a girl with the teeth of a key opens the door ajar, it is Venus who teaches her to creep furtively from the soft bed, to place her foot without making a noise, to exchange in front of his man eloquent gestures. and to hide messages of love in agreed gestures.
But he does not teach it to everyone: only to those who are not held back by indolence or to those who are not prevented by fear from getting out of bed on a dark night.”” TIBULLUS.

Zeus (for some sources her father) made her marry Hephaestus or Vulcan who she immediately betrayed with Ares (or in Latin Mars).
Helios the Sun revealed the betrayal to Hephaestus so the God Vulcan made a golden net and imprisoned them in his embrace, taking the cheaters to the other gods and asking for revenge.

The Goddesses left out of pity or modesty but the Gods greatly appreciated the forms of Venus: Hermes (Mercury in Latin) expressed himself very transparently saying he would not have minded staying in Mars’ place.

And so…Venus made him her next lover: from this great love was born Cupid, the chubby and spiteful god of Love.

Even the GREAT GREEK HERO, Aeneas, is the son of the Goddess and Anchises!

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“Granddaughter of the Sun God and wife of Dionysus: Ariadne’s crown moves among the stars and runs together with the sun, companion of Aurora, daughter of the morning”!

Princess Ariadne, daughter of Minos, king of Crete and of Pasiphae, fell in love with the Athenian hero Theseus and, with a thread or glittering jewels, helped him escape from the labyrinth of Knossos after he had killed the Minotaur, a half beast bull and half man that Minos kept in the labyrinth.

The poets and artists of ancient Greece loved to portray Ariadne sleeping on the banks of Naxos while Dionysus, the god of wine and revelry, looked at her with love and admiration.

Ariadne’s story was then taken up by European artists, writers and composers including Richard Strauss in his work “ARIADNE AUF Naxos”.

The labyrinth of Knossos had been built by Daedalus with a collection of corridors, doors and entrances where anyone who entered would immediately get lost.

When Androgenus, son of Minos, was killed in Athens, his father took revenge on the Athenians and forced them to deliver 7 young women and 7 young men every year to be locked up in the labyrinth as a gift to the Minotaur.

Theseus, son of the king of Athens, decided to put an end to this incredible custom and faced the Minotaur, killing him.

To save the Hero from certain death, Ariadne gave Theseus a ball of wool that would help him find his way out. Theseus thus managed to get out after killing the monster and leave for Athens with Ariadne.

However, when he stopped in Naxos, he dreamed of Dionysus ordering him to leave Ariadne… and so frightened by that dream, he left and abandoned the Princess.

Ariadne was thus consoled by Dionysus or Bacchus in Latin, who drove a chariot pulled by panthers, who took her as his wife and immortalized his love for the Princess by transforming her CROWN INTO A CONSTELLATION!
“The crown of Ariadne that moves among the stars and runs together with the sun, companion of Aurora, daughter of the morning!” (the Dionysians).

Who was Dionysus?
The God of wine and revelry, son of Zeus, who grew up in Naxos, and of Semeli, daughter of the king of Thebes.
Lorenzo de’ Medici describes the marriage between the two thus:
“This is Bacchus and Ariadne,
beautiful and ardent for each other:
because time flees and deceives,
they are always happy together.
These Nymphs and other people
they are cheerful however.
Whoever wants to be happy is:
THERE IS NO CERTAINTY OF TOMORROW!”

And Theseus? HE WAS NOT VERY LUCKY... he forgot to change the black sails with which he had left for Crete and the Aegean king, his father, believing he had been killed by the Minotaur, due to the pain of the loss of his son, he threw himself into the sea, giving rise to the AEGEAN SEA.

Brun Fine Art awaits you at Sculptura 2024 to enchant you with the refinement and magic of the masterpieces on display!

1. Abandoned Ariadne bronze sculpture, late 19th century 42.5 x 38.5 x 17.5 cm
2. Angelo Montegani Milan 1891 – 1959
“Female bust” Signed and dated lower right marble sculpture 42×47 cm
Felice Bialetti 1869-1906
3. Unsigned dominant thought Bronze h 41 x 44.5 x 31 cm including base

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“The work of Alik Cavaliere, in all its complexity, appears as one of the vastest meditations on nature and things in post-war sculpture.

In his research Alik considered man with existential philosophy; observe nature in its vital impulse, in its vulnerability, in its metamorphoses; reflects on the relationship between art and memory, cosmos and chaos, truth and artifice.

He defined himself as a pictor-philosophus, Alik embodied the rarest figure of the sculptor-philosophus, among the most profound and at the same time light and ironic of his generation. Few artists, like him, have broadened their gaze on many themes. And the fact is even more singular if we think that his work never translates into a literary contentism, into a conceptualism disinterested in the execution of the work, but cultivates a stubborn attention to the concreteness of the sculpture and the suggestion of the various materials” Elena Pontiggia

Alik Cavaliere was born to Alberto Cavaliere, Calabrian, chemist and poet, and Fanny Kaufmann, Russian sculptor of Jewish religion, who emigrated to Italy after the Russian Revolution. Raised between Rome and Paris, he settled in Milan in 1938. After high school he enrolled at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts. Here he met Giacomo Manzù, Achille Funi, Dario Fo and Marino Marini of whom he became first the assistant and then the successor to the chair of Sculpture. The first exhibition dates back to 1945 during a collective exhibition of young artists. The first solo exhibition was held in 1951 at the Galleria Colonna in Milan.
He participated in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1972. He carried out his teaching activity for over 30 years at the Brera Academy of which he also became Director. He is buried at the Monumental Cemetery of Milan.

Copetti Antiquari awaits you at Sculptura 2024 to enchant you with the enchantment of its sculptures of timeless beauty!

From 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

ALIK KNIGHT
Peasants, 1952
Refractory earth

ALIK CAVALIERE
Contadini, 1952
Terra refrattaria

“ALL KIND OF HUMAN WISDOM IS VAIN!” he loved repeating the FAUN to those who questioned him!

God of nature, first son and then consort of Fauna, the Goddess of nature, is often represented with a flute and cornucopia, dressed in goat skins, and armed with a shepherd’s cap.

Faun spoke prophetically through the rustling of the wind in the branches, or the whisper of the leaves in the woods and for this reason he was nicknamed FATUUS.

But he was also an inspiring and invading deity, who unloaded his obsessive and possessive action on his prey, the Nymphs of springs and springs. who, consequently, became similar to the Sibyls in their prophesying.

But he was also an inspiring and invading deity, who unloaded his obsessive and possessive action on his prey, the Nymphs of springs and springs. who, consequently, became similar to the Sibyls in their prophesying.

Sometimes Faun makes his voice resonate even today in the woods and forests and sends prophetic dreams to those possessed by ecstasy.

He is the inventor of the very ancient Saturnian verses on which Latin poetry is based.

He is therefore the GOD OF PROPHETIC AND POETIC INSPIRATION, like PAN and like the NYMPHS TO WHICH HE IS CONNECTED.

It is also associated with panic fear, with frightening apparitions and supernatural voices.
However, his voice does not always inspire terror, on the contrary, sometimes it reassures and encourages.

He is a GOOD DEITY, protector of domestic animals, flocks and crops.

With goat’s feet and horns on his forehead, he often expressed this saying to those who questioned him:
“ALL KIND OF HUMAN WISDOM IS VAIN!”

The Faun, in fact, was the bearer and supporter of the INSTINCT which is based directly on himself and on the world, without mental ruminations!

THE FAUN IS WAITING FOR YOU AT SCULPTURA 2024… what prophetic dream could inspire you?
We are waiting for you from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

A little ARTIST HISTORY FOR YOU:

Giuseppe Pisani was born in Carrara in 1757 and trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence, before moving to Rome where he was taken under the wing of Giuseppe Albani.
Traveling with Albani to Vienna, he was introduced into the circle of Archduchess Maria Beatrice Vittoria d’Este who appointed him drawing tutor for her children, a position which earned him numerous commissions. When the Duchy of Modena recovered after the fall of Napoleon, Francis IV appointed Pisani as court sculptor and teacher at the city’s Academy of Fine Arts, of which he would become director in 1821.

The popularity of Albani’s Satyr is confirmed by an inventory of the works of Luigi Valadier’s workshop drawn up by his son Giuseppe in 1810, which mentions versions of the sculpture in both stucco and wood. A bronze version by Luigi Valadier, dating from around 1780, is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, while another version was held at Trinity Fine Art in London in 2004.

Giuseppe Pisani
Bust of a faun
Carrara marble

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The “Bucintoro” model returns to Petra, further embellished with numerous gold leaf friezes compared to the previous 2023 edition.
This work conceived and created by the master Ivan Ceschin and a team of experts in his studio, is the result of years of research and work.

The model reproduces in 1:25 scale the famous Venetian BUCINTORO from the 1700s, a masterpiece from the complex wooden components of the structure to the smallest and most meticulous detail, from the hundreds of sculptures entirely modeled by hand.

Each figure of the decorative apparatus was designed by faithfully listening to the descriptions and images according to the iconography and artistic style of the time, adding further studies by revisiting the existing models and the reconstructions of some important scholars.

The materials chosen are of the best workmanship, the inlays with precious and ancient woods embellished with mother-of-pearl inserts; the sculptures are hand-gilded in 24 carat pure gold leaf, the crimson velvet chosen from the best fabrics made with antique looms.

All this to recall the splendor of the most famous and identifying vessel of the wealth of Venice.
Model dimensions cm.183 x 100 x 100 h.

The work was requested by the Civic Museums of Venice for the “Births and Rebirths” exhibition held in 2022 at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice to celebrate 1600 years of history and presented with a particular scenography with the characters dressed in the precious clothes coming from Palazzo Fortuny Museum and the choreography of the paintings of the greatest artists of the time.

The Bucintoro, the favorite parade ship of the Republic of Venice, was a spectacular galley of enormous dimensions, entirely covered in carvings, decorations and golden statues symbolizing the glory of the Republic.

The first was commissioned in 1311 and since then, although modified and rebuilt several times over the centuries, it is recognized for being the most sumptuous and majestic ship that has ever sailed the waters of the Venice lagoon.

Representative vessel of the Doge during the Feast of Sense (the Ascension) and was at the center of the rite of the Marriage of the Sea, a rite in which the Doge, symbolizing the State of Venice, threw a gold ring into the sea from a hole placed on the Bucintoro to celebrate the union between Venice and the Adriatic Sea.

The last Bucintoro that sailed the waters of the lagoon was begun in 1719 and completed in 1729. Although it was similar in structure and iconography to the previous one, it stood out because it was the most sumptuous of all in terms of decorations, carvings, statues and gilding.

The last Marriage of the Sea took place in Venice in 1796 and saw the last staged with great pomp of the Bucintoro.
In fact, the galley was destroyed in 1798 when Napoleon’s French troops abandoned Venice following the Treaty of Campo Formio with the order to put the Venetian ships out of action.
The paintings and engravings depicting the Bucintoro and created by the major Venetian painters of the time, primarily Canaletto, are still famous today, unique evidence of the splendor and wealth of Venice and the Bucintoro.

Ivan Ceschin and the most sumptuous ship that has ever searched the waters of Venice await you at Petra 2024 from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

The beautiful female bust by Giuseppe Piamontini from around 1686, of a solemn classicism detectable in the sober tone, in the serene gaze, in the powerful neck, in the beautiful hair wavy with mastery – once probably completed, at the top of the forehead, by a moon that does not we know when it was removed – it is an unpublished work, we believe a youthful one, by Giuseppe Piamontini, one of the protagonists of Florentine plastic art of the late Medici age.
It is supposed to be the fourth “FEMALE BUST” commissioned by Ferdinando de Medici from the artist; three busts are currently on display at Palazzo Pitti.
The sculpture must date back to the artist’s beginnings: this can be deduced from the distinctly “Roman” tone of the figure, indicative of a still alive experience, made in the City in direct contact with the great examples of ancient statuary and with the “modern” ones masters of chisel, who in the case of Piamontini – sent by Cosimo III to the Medici Academy founded in Rome to renew the Tuscan figurative “language” in a markedly late-Baroque direction – was followed between November 1681 and October 1686.

During the five years he spent in the Eternal City, Piamontini, a pupil of Ercole Ferrara and Ciro Ferri – the latter, who continued the work of Pietro da Cortona at Palazzo Pini – was specially chosen by the Grand Duke “to study the Ancient” , completed a complex educational journey, nourishing himself on archaeological culture also studied through the filter of Cortona, Algardi and Duquesnoy (mediated by the controlled chisel of the master Ferrata), also showing attention to the solemnity of Domenico Guidi and the composed beauty of Antonio Raggi.

Returning to Florence, Piamontini, who distinguished himself in Rome for his great commitment and professional seriousness, had an easy time entering the circle of the most notable commissions.
The beautiful dead Christ in alabaster today in Palazzo Pitti is dated to 1687; the following year an important public work, the Saint John the Baptist destined for the Florentine baptistery; from 1688 the relationship with the great prince Ferdinando de Medici was then certified, who until 1695 rewarded him with commissions of great importance such as the series of four female busts, three of which are today preserved in the grand staircase of Palazzo Pitti.

It is precisely with this series, dating back to 1689, and with other works of that period, that our presumed Diana finds many points of tangency.

MEARINI FINE ART awaits you at Sculptura 2024 from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

GIUSEPPE PIAMONTINI
(Florence, 1663-1744)
Female bust (Diana?), circa 1686
White marble, height 80 cm
Private collection

In 1949 Francesco Sapori, publishing his memorable text on modern Italian sculpture, included among the photos of the four sculptures chosen to illustrate Renato Brozzi’s work, the elegant Damsel stretching, dedicating two shots to it, exactly as for the creation most famous and celebrated by the Traversetolese artist: the “wonderful Cheli”, a gigantic gilded bronze turtle inserted into the dorsal armor of the original animal, completed on commission by Gabriele D’Annunzio in 1925 and initially placed to guard the Chamber of Leper before being solemnly placed in the then cenacle of the angel (which will take the name of the Cheli Room from her) in the new house of the poet, who came to settle in Gardone, following the disappointment of the “Bloody Christmas” of 1920. In short, a sort of implicit homage to this fascinating work and a certain consecration of it at a high level: a finger pointed at the quality of its creator’s craft and the type of culture he represented.
Of such a craft, the work showcased that decorative attitude refined and refined in detail, against any suggestion of sketching, and that refined and aristocratic virtuosity that found its roots in noble historical models, especially of Renaissance inspiration, while at the same time nourishing itself on The artist’s incredible technical knowledge, profound knowledge of the processes of fusion, embossing and cold finishing of metals and of all the sculpture techniques experimented during his early apprenticeship.

In fact, at just fifteen years old, Brozzi had been placed at an artistic foundry in the town, “Giuseppe Baldi”, which produced candelabra, lamps and watch cases, decorated with the decorations in vogue at the time. In the foundry, the very young artist had been assigned to the finishing work carried out with the chisel, an activity more congenial to his fragile constitution, which had allowed him to reach heights of virtuosity in metalworking in just a few years comparable to those of the greatest artists of the Renaissance , thanks to that unparalleled softness of modeling that characterizes his cultured and very particular manner, especially in the treatment of the subjects of his extensive zoomorphic iconography.

Haloed in his shining precocity by the epithet of “modern Pisanello” or “Cellini of the century”, Brozzi will gradually lose the physiognomy of a re-enactor of Renaissance models, inventing his own free courtliness which poses as ancient but is outside of every imitation, as in the work exhibited, where the sharp, elegant, almost abstract in its purity, exhibits in the quivering unfolding of the wings a mastery that becomes lyrical interpretation.

Even the exceptional mastery of goldsmith techniques, such as the use of fire or mercury gilding (a complicated and highly refined process aimed at enhancing the nervous modeling of the plumage by supporting suggestive luministic solutions) will merge over time the chromatic sensitivity of the author with the taste for polychromy, following a precise direction of the most sumptuous déco which has in the precious creations of Mario Buccellati, D’Annunzio’s “excellent goldsmith”, and above all in the imaginative bestiary of Alfredo Ravasco, the peaks of excellence of a specific orientation.

Under the smoothing of the light, which accentuates the precious and intense harmony of a gently sculpted chiaroscuro tonalism, the artist transforms the luminous tones of the metals into alchemical elegance with the mottling of onyx and agate, the veins of the green malachite or lapis lazuli with an intense ultramarine blue colour, always used in works of important commissions, as this important sculpture certainly had to be.

RENATO BROZZI (Traversetolo, 1885-1963)
The stretchin damsel, 1941
gilded silver on lapis lazuli base, h 28 x w 48 x d 25 cm
signed and dated on the base «R. BROZZI 1941»
Bibliography: F. Sapori, Modern Italian Sculpture, Rome, Libreria dello Stato, 1949, p. 258

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Marchesi was the most important sculptor in Milan during the Restoration; one of the greatest interpreters of the artistic politics of THE HAZBURG

With extreme refinement, the marble, whose execution is still influenced by the methods of Napoleonic portraiture and the so-called Imero taste, depicts in court clothes an Austrian dignitary linked to the Kingdom of Lombardy-Veneto, the vassal state of the Habsburg Empire with its capital in Milan established in 1815 at the behest of Chancellor Klemens von Metternich during the Congress of Vienna.

This high-ranking character, in fact, is decorated with two Habsburg honours: the one with the cross can be traced back to the prestigious Royal Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary instituted by Empress Maria Theresa in 1764; while the other with the Habsburg double-headed eagle is the medal of the Order of the Austrian Iron Crown founded by the Emperor of Austria Francis I in 1816, taking up the Order of the same name established by Napoleon in Milan in 1805 at the birth of the Kingdom of Italy .

The man depicted in the bust, dressed in a general’s uniform decorated on the chest with laurel branches and wrapped in an old-fashioned cloak that alludes to a command role, is therefore a character linked to the Lombard-Veneto government and to the city of Milan, center of power of the new Austrian viceroyalty.

The dating of the bust can be limited with great precision: after January 1st 1816, the date of establishment of the new Order of the Iron Crown, but not far from this date considering the extreme proximity of the bust, due to the style and setting of the ‘court dress, to the portraits of the Napoleonids made between 1810 and 1815 in both painting and sculpture (just think of those painted in Milan by Andrea Appiani for the viceregal court of Eugène de Beauharnais).

The physiognomic features of the portrait, although very idealized here, correspond in fact to those of Count Heinrich Joseph Johannes Bellegarde (Dresden, 1756 – Vienna, 1845), the first Austrian governor of Milan in the aftermath of Napoleon’s defeat (fig. 1). Close advisor to Emperor Francis I, president of the Royal War Council, field marshal commander-in-chief of the Austrian army in northern Italy during all the war campaigns against the Napoleonic armies.

For the formal execution, for the typical rendering of the hair, for the smoothness with which the marble is worked and for a nascent principle of naturalism that can be seen in the rendering of the facial features, the bust is certainly the work of Pompeo Marchesi, an artist protagonist of Lombard sculpture of the first half of the nineteenth century. Son of a marble worker, Marchesi moved to Milan at a very young age with his father, a sculptor on the cathedral construction site, and studied at the Brera Academy. From 1804 to 1810 he lived in Rome, where he was able to get close to Antonio Canova. Returning to Milan, in the years of the Napoleonic reign he worked for the cathedral and for the decoration of the Sempione arch under the direction of Luigi Cagnola. With the Restoration Marchesi became the most important sculptor in Milan and one of the major interpreters of the artistic policy OF THE HAZBURG” BY FRANCESCO LEONE.

ALESSANDRA DI CASTRO WAITS FOR YOU IN MODENANTIQUARIA FROM 10 TO 18 FEBRUARY TO GIVE YOU ART EMOTIONS FROM “THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS”!

The kneeling cherub offers us his tears, which must be read as the most primordial of responses to the discovery of the inevitability of common human destiny, that is, its material transience.

A painful feeling that has its primary cause in the presence of the skull – on which our child places his right hand and which he holds close to himself through the cloak that partly dresses him. The skull, without the mandible and with the incisors and canines of the upper dental arch absent, is placed on a closed volume.
The putto’s face is characterized by hyper-expressive facial expressions with a strong chiaroscuro emphasis. In short, we are faced with the lively reaction of one on the silent and perennial impassibility of the other.

Carved from a single block of Carrara marble, “The Putto with the skull and book” recalls, as already mentioned, the theme of Vanity, that is, one of the concepts dearest to seventeenth-century European culture.

It was in that century that this particular subject had one of its moments of greatest ‘fortune’ and, so to speak, ‘success’, coming to experience a real iconographic development not comparable to that of previous periods, including the sixteenth century. With it, with its representation, an attempt was made to “overcome the trauma of mortality” by becoming aware of oneself and one’s finitude.

If on the one hand it was necessary to “meditate on death, defeat the call to worldly goods, earthly things being “pictures of clouds appearing to have disappeared, flours mixed with privations, colorful lies of verisimilars, spirits volatile in being, not fixed in last, shadows””, on the other hand, however, vanitas – with the implicit reference to the biblical: “Vanitas vanitatum et omnia vanitas” – led man to exaggerate to excess the essence of the meaning of the Horatian carpe diem, of that «How beautiful is youth, that is always slipping away! Whoever wants to be happy, let him be so: of tomorrow there’s no knowing ” sung by Lorenzo the Magnificent in his The Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne of 1490. Seize the moment, therefore. Giving space to the senses, in search of pleasure and enjoyment; to the immediate satisfaction, therefore, of desire, whether carnal or intellectual.

BOTTICELLI ANTICHITA’ WAITS FOR YOU AT MODENANTIQUARIA 2024, to give space to the senses, to fully experience the BEAUTY of Art that satisfies the soul and intellect!

BRUNO BOTTICELLI IS RECONFIRMED THIS YEAR AS PRESIDENT OF THE ANTIQUES DEALS ASSOCIATION OF ITALY!

GIOVANNI COMIN
Putto with skull and book (Allegory of Vanity)
Last quarter of the 17th century (before 1695)
Carrara marble

PETRA “Projects and landscapes between classic and contemporary” from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere and SLOW GARDEN LIFESTYLE by Marta Meda and Luca Fois present:

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An area entirely dedicated to Italian sculpture: 31 works from 16 important antique galleries – created with different techniques and materials – retrace seven centuries of history.

This third edition of “Sculptura. Italian masterpieces from the 13th to the 20th century” offers 31 masterpieces from 16 important galleries: Botticelli Antichità, Alessandra di Castro, Longari Arte Milano, Altomani & Sons, Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art, Giovanni Asioli Martini Antiquario, Cantore Galleria Antiquaria, Brun Fine Art, Carlo Orsi, Copetti Antiquari, Galleria Gomiero, Galleria d’Arte del Caminetto, Maurizio Nobile Fine Art, Mearini Fine Art, Secol-Art di Davide Masoero, Walter Padovani.

The works were selected by a scientific committee made up of some of the most important scholars in Italian art: Andrea Bacchi, Aldo Galli, Fernando Mazzocca.
From the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century, from wood to marble, from terracotta to bronze: Sculpture, Italian masterpieces from the 13th to the 20th century at Modenantiquaria 2024 from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Who is the God of arts and prophecies still worshiped today?

The God Apollo also God of music and poetry, lord of the Muses and protector of the Oracle of Delphi.

HORATIO: “The more man denies himself, the more he will receive from the gods”! Apollo was the son of Zeus, king of Olympus, and Leto, a Titanide.
Era, the consort of the king of the gods, discovered the escapade and started a ferocious persecution against Leto who suffered enormous pain for 9 days.

The Gods, however, had compassion and, since Leto was expecting twins, they allowed the little girl, ARTEMIS, to be born and quickly become an adult to help her mother give birth to her brother Apollo.

Artemis was so shaken by her mother’s suffering that she decided to remain a virgin forever.

Leto’s ordeal did not end at the birth of Apollo. Hera, still very furious, sent the PYTHON to exterminate the family.

The gods intervened again and made Apollo grow in just 4 days so that he could kill the monster.

Apollo killed the Python, but since it was a sacred animal, he had to do penance for having taken its life.
Where the monster fell, the ORACLE OF DELPHI was raised, a place of which Apollo became the protector by whispering in the ears of the Pythiae and fortune tellers.

Who wouldn’t like to receive a prophecy, an immediate solution to every obstacle in life?

Come to Modenantiquaria 2024, STAND Carracci 12 at Altomani & Sons: THE GOD APOLLO AWAITS YOU! From 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Vicenzo Dandini (Florence, 1609- 1675)
Apollo Oil on canvas 131×103 cm 1660-1670 ca.
Attribution and study: Prof. Francesca Baldassarri

An elegant Apollo, cut in three quarters, accompanied by the double bass which he embraces by squeezing the bow between the fingers of his left hand and not by the more usual lyre, dominates the canvas. The other arm is laid loosely on the side where a bouquet peeks out under the vermilion cloak. A laurel plant lays out the composition on the left and ideally crowns the musician who is not looking at us, his expression absorbed in who knows what thoughts.

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THE FIGURE OF A WOMAN by Luigi Bracchi stands out for the elegance and imperiousness of the figure perfectly blended into the surrounding space.
Bracchi was married to Regina Cassolo, a two-dimensional futurist sculptor who was his companion throughout his life, with whom he shared experiences and studies, while remaining substantially distanced from her on an aesthetic and formal level.

In this work, exhibited at the Palazzo della Permanente in Milan in 1953, it reaches an outcome of great impact, thanks above all to the flattening of the objective volumes, revived using a decomposed chromatic geometrization.

The assimilation of cubism and futurism merged with Bracchi’s formal classicism are successful for an original and elegant rendering of the figure and the space that hosts it. This type of expressive mode will be a constant in Bracchi’s art since the 1930s, but it will not be his only way of expressing himself in painting.

Studiolo Fine Art presents other unparalleled masterpieces in Modena, starting with “The joys of my mother” by Cesare Monti, an intensely engaging work, full of those daily emotions that characterize us all!

In 1930 Monti achieved great fame, thanks also to the awarding of the Omero Soppelsa prize for the best landscape achieved at the Venice Biennale of that year; his fame as a portraitist, however, had already been established in the Milanese high society, as demonstrated by the portrait of Mrs Marieda Boschi in the first room of the Boschi-DI Stefano house museum in Milan, painted in January 1929, where twentieth-century accents are still present . In this work, which portrays the Brandovani family, Hoepli booksellers, Monti explodes in all his strength and delicacy, rich in impressions marked by delicate lines.

Another sublime masterpiece “The gymnast” by Vindizio Nodari Pesenti from 1939, a plaster famous for its exhibitions at the Venice International Art Biennale and for the charisma and strength it communicates! Not to mention Franco Asco’s masterpiece “La scugnizza”, more unique than rare! Studiolo awaits you at Modenantiquaria 2024 from 10 to 18 February!

CESARE MONTI
(Brevia, 1891 – Bellano, 1959)
The joys of mother 1930
Oil on canvas, 127×91 cm
signed and dated lower right “C. MOUNTAINS/1930”
Private collection
Provenance: Brandovani Collection, Milan
Exhibitions: Cesare Monti, Pitocchetto Gallery, Brescia 1973
Bibliography: Cesare Monti 1973, tab. 23; The itinerant art of the Italian twentieth century, edited by N.Colombo and G.Cribiori, Allemandi Turin 2011
G.C.

Vindizio Nodari Pesenti
(Medole, 1879 – Mantua, 1961)
The gymnast, 1939.
Patinated plaster, height 170 cm, base 54.4×77.2 cm
Signed at the base “Vindizio NP”
Exhibitions: XXIII International Art Exhibition of Venice – Biennale, Venice, 1940
Civic Museum Gallery of Modern Art of Mantua, Palazzo Te, 1980
Bibliography:
XXIII International Art Exhibition of Venice – Biennale, Venice, 1940 exhibition cat
Exhibition catalog Civic Museum Gallery of Modern Art of Mantua, Palazzo Te, 1980
Provenance: Licia Nodari Pesenti.

LUIGI BRACCHI
(Tirano, 1892 – Milan, 1978)
Figure of a woman, 1953
Oil on canvas, 106×90 cm
Signed lower right «Bracchi»
Exhibitions: National Exhibition, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, 1953
Bibliography: Corriere Lombardo, 24 December 1953; Between the lines. Twenty-four artists of the Italian twentieth century through images and words, edited by G. Cribiori, 9cento Milano Edizioni, 2023, p 104 table 46.

FRANCO ASCO
(Trieste, 1903 – Milan, 1970)
Scugnizza, 1965
Height 133.5 cm
Signed and dated “Asco 1965”
Bibliography: Between the lines. Twenty-four artists of the Italian twentieth century through images and words, edited by G. Cribiori, 9cento Milano Edizioni, 2023, table 5, p 57.

Asco returns to the figurative at a moment in his career in which he seemed to have definitively distanced himself from it, but it is certainly not the unpredictability that he lacks.
This work with witty connotations offers a curious rereading of the sculptural primitivism of the twenties/thirties, supported by an accentuated synthesis of features.
The details of the hands, in their perfect plastic rendering and the sinuosity of the body, alluring, irreverent and “simpering”, bring to light Asco’s technical virtuosity, as always excellent.
G.C.

For PETRA 2024 and the installation “SLOW GARDEN LIFESTYLE”, by MARTA MEDA and LUCA FOIS, composed of real MOODBOARD ISLANDS to tell, with a selection of objects and materials, the scenarios of outdoor life and the new aesthetics of landscape, today we present the MATERICA COLLECTION by PICTA.

For the “ISLAND POTS & POTS”, (the real burrows of the plants) arrive the “MATERIALS”, with essential shapes and a material mixture of three colours.

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3) CARBON BLACK FOR STRONG SENSATIONS.

BOTTLES, TOWER VASES, AMPHORA VASES, CONICAL VASES, CUT FLOWER VASES: all in a scratched finish with wonderful shades.

We are waiting for you in Petra, PROJECTS, AND LANDSCAPES BETWEEN CLASSIC AND CONTEMPORARY, for a true immersion in the green and in the true WELL-BEING of body and soul!

Picta. is an artisan ceramic and wood workshop in the Veneto hinterland. It was born from the passion that has led us to work with two materials as simple as they are noble for over ten years: earth and wood.
Each artifact is handcrafted according to tradition, as a work in itself it is a unique and unrepeatable piece. The production process of our products requires time and patience, a relatively long time that distances us from the logic of “fast” and “repetitive”; a feeling that we hope translates into the finished pieces.
We love the natural sensation of Wood and Earth which we try to preserve as much as possible, reducing the use of enamels and paints to a minimum, to celebrate their organic textures.

The Mirco Cattai Gallery presents a series of Kazak carpets, among the most significant of this area: Kazak with swastikas, Karaciof and Bordjialu. Other very precious carpets come from the Ottoman Empire, a large Star Kazak and three Transylvania carpets, a Lotto ushak, a double niche and a Tintoretto ushak.

Among non-sedentary, nomadic and transhumant populations, the carpet has always been an indispensable object of use, as well as the highest and most complex expression of the culture and art of that people.

Since ancient times, nomads have used knotted products to build their tents and to make almost all the objects necessary for daily life: bags in which to store food and utensils, mats, etc.

In this sense, the carpet became the repository of complex values that contained the everyday life and culture of the population that nestled them.

On its fleece the nomads represented the symbols of the clans they belonged to, the significant moments of their history, and also gave expression to their creativity, aimed at celebrating the moments of daily life linked to nature, animals and the natural landscapes in which they were immersed.

The spread of the Islamic religion decisively influenced the creation and decoration of the oldest Persian carpets; it gave the Persian carpet that mystical value which soon became one of its essential attributes, both in its decorations and in its practical functions.

BEIJING
China
Late 19th century

BORDJIALU’
Caucasus
Mid 19th century

NINGXIA
China
Mid 19th century

STAR USHAK
Anatolia
16th century

Mirco Cattai awaits you at Modenantiquaria from 10 to 18 February with carpets from one thousand and one nights: pure magic to experience!

“Singular painter”, Giorgio Vasari defined him!

Antonio Allegri, better known as Correggio (Correggio, circa 1489 – 1534) from the town where he was born in 1489, is one of the most singular painters in the history of art.

The artist began his career by carefully observing Andrea Mantegna from whom he took his harsh sign (which would later become soft and very delicate thanks to the meeting with Leonardo da Vinci and Raphael) as well as the perspective illusionism.

He was able to rework the different sources from which he drew suggestions to obtain a very original and innovative style, which made Correggio one of the painting geniuses of all time!

Its spectacular frescoes were a source of inspiration for Baroque artists.

His religious-themed paintings are among the most intimate and elegant ever, and those with a mythological theme have elected him a master of eroticism, with subjects always approached with great refinement.

ANTONIO ALLEGRI known as CORREGGIO
Young man escaping Christ’s capture
Oil painting on canvas

The great and brilliant Correggio awaits you in the Lampronti Gallery at Modenantiquaria 2024 from 10 to 18 February!

“NATURAL” is a thought about the outdoors and urban design.

A sculptural bench with a strong visual and material impact, an important volume and a slender shape intersect with each other.

Tuscan travertine which, from the quarry, passes to the processing of skilled craftsmen, until it returns to the nature that generated it: this time as a product, with form and function.

Venus, from the Greek Afros, that is, foam, is the second planet of the solar system. It is the brightest planet in the night sky after the Moon and for this reason it has been known since ancient times. Venus is visible only shortly after sunset and shortly before dawn, but the ancients, who did not have sophisticated instruments, thought they were faced with two distinct objects, an evening star and a morning star, at least until Pythagoras did not understand that it was the same planet.

VENUS is also a GODDESS, with unparalleled beauty. the GODDESS OF LOVE, of fertility, of spring.

Many artists including BOTTICELLI have dedicated ABSOLUTE MASTERPIECES TO THIS QUEEN OF THE SKY.

In this masterpiece it is Guercino who immortalizes in the canvas the mother of Cupid, fascinating, sensual, immensely beautiful… but very jealous, capricious, and combative to the point of conquering the love of the god of war Mars or Ares in Greek (from which Cupid was born, the chubby and mischievous god who shot infallible arrows of love).

Having been born from the sea she was venerated as the protector of sailors. As soon as she rose from the waters, the Hours dressed her and adorned her with roses, myrtle and jewels, accompanying her to Cythera, placing her on a shell and where a sanctuary was promptly built for her. From there she was carried by the Olympian Gods on a chariot pulled by white doves.

As the Goddess of nature, roses and plants are sacred to her, but also animals, such as the dolphin, the quail and the hare. sparrows, doves and swans, as well as the ram and the serpent. She owned a belt that made anyone who wore it irresistible, which she then gave to Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons.

Her handmaids are the Graces. Its attributes are the doves or swans, the shell, the dolphins, the magical belt that makes the wearer seductive, the torch that arouses love, the flaming heart, the rose, the evergreen myrtle like love.

Another conventional attribute could be the mirror. The myth tells of her birth from the foam created by Uranus’ genitals cut and thrown into the sea by Cronus. As soon as she came out of the water, she was transported by the Zephyrs to the coast of Cyprus, but according to other sources she landed first in Cythera or Paphos. On the shore she was welcomed by the Hours (the Seasons) who dressed her, decked her out and took her to the immortals.

Another version of the myth instead wants her to be the daughter of Zeus and Dione. Plato imagined the existence of two Venuses, one born from Uranus, the sky, and therefore called Venus urania, goddess of pure love; the other born from Dione called pandemic Venus, that is, popular, goddess of vulgar love.

GIOVANNI FRANCESCO BARBIERI known as IL GUERCINO

1656-1657
Oil on canvas

GUERCINO’S VENUS AND OTHER MASTERPIECES OF TIMELESS BEAUTY ARE WAITING FOR YOU IN TIZIANA SASSOLI’S FONDANTICO, AT MODENANTIQUARIA 2024, FROM 10 TO 18 FEBRUARY!

ANTONIO BALESTRA. Venus and Hippomenes, ATTILIO CECCHETTO ANTIQUARIAN, PAINTING OF EXCEPTIONAL BEAUTY depicting VENUS, CUPID AND HIPPOMENES.

Hippomenes is a Boeotian hero, son of Megareus (or Ares the god of war) and Merope. The beautiful Atalante, Boeotian of Scheno, had made it a condition for those aspiring to marry her that they must first win her in the race, in which she was very fast.

The defeated were to be put to death. The large number of suitors who ended tragically were not able to distract the lover from the test, but before presenting himself for the test he invoked the help of Aphrodite, who gave him three golden apples picked in the garden of the Hesperides or in that of Aphrodite herself in Cyprus.

During the race, when he would have been in danger of being overtaken by Atalante, he had to throw one of the three magic apples; the girl, irresistibly attracted, would have hesitated for a moment to pick it up, and Hippomenes would have been able to distance her.

And so it happened, with great satisfaction, moreover, also for Atalante, who had also fallen in love with the beautiful young man.

But in his happiness, he forgot to offer thanksgiving sacrifices to Aphrodite, who, enraged. When the young spouses on their journey to Onchesto found themselves crossing a grove sacred to Cybele, induced them to violate its sanctity with their transports of love so that indignant Cybele changed them into lions which she yoked to her chariot.

The most conspicuous literary source of the legend is represented by Ovid, Metamorphoses, X, vv. 560-704. In Italian literature, Boiardo’s tasty imitation of the legend in the Folderico episode (Orlando Innamorato, part 1, cantos XXI and XXII) is known.

STORIES OF GODS, HEROES AND IMPOSSIBLE LOVES: ATTILIO CECCHETTO ANTIQUARIO awaits you from 10 to 18 February at Modenantiquaria, stand Il Correggio 1.

Drift is the rug from the Memento collection that creates a tapestry of stories with each rug, transcribing Yabu Pushelberg’s fondest memories and moments with Himalayan wool.

The artisans at CC-TAPIS combine dyed and undyed materials, in extremely delicate gradients, finished by hand to evoke the soft and undefined nostalgic moments that are stored to form the collection.

THE DOMUS PETRA BY GIULIO CAPPELLINI awaits you from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Simone Cantarini known as il Pesarese (Pesaro, 1612 – Verona 1648), Lot and his daughters, oil on canvas.

The painting depicts a biblical episode narrated in the book of Genesis, which sees Lot, fleeing from the city of Sodom destroyed by divine punishment, retreat into a cave and here, stunned by the wine, lie together with two of his daughters to ensure his descendants.

The story of Lot and his daughters

The story comes from the Bible, from the Book of Genesis where it is said that in the cities of the valley (where now there is the Dead Sea), the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah with their sins had exceeded every limit and God had decided to destroy them with fire.

Lot hosted the two Angels who looked like beautiful young men, but the corrupt sodomites asked to let the two foreigners out to abuse them.

In order not to break the sacred hospitality and protect the angels, Lot offered his two daughters in exchange, but the angry sodomites were about to break down the door when the angels intervened, blinding them.

After trying to warn the inhabitants of Sodom of the danger, without being believed, at dawn the angels woke up Lot to flee with his family, advising them not to turn to look at the city as they fled.
Once Lot and his family left, God caused sulphur and fire to fall on Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them.

Lot’s wife, although warned not to look back, did so anyway and thus became a pillar of salt, while only Lot and his two daughters who reached the city of Zoar were saved. But Lot left Zoar because he did not feel at ease and went to live on the mountain, settling in a cave with his two daughters.

The area where they had taken refuge was uninhabited and the two girls began to worry about not being able to have children.
That night they made their father drink some wine and the eldest went to sleep with him; but he did not notice it, neither when she lay down nor when she got up.”

The older sister urged the younger sister to do the same.

And so two children were born: “The eldest gave birth to a son and called him Moab. This is the father of the Moabites who exist to this day. The youngest also gave birth to a son and called him the Son of my people. This is the father of the Ammonites that exist to this day.“

Simone Cantarini known as il Pesarese or Simone da Pesaro (Pesaro, April 1612 – Verona, 1648) was an Italian painter, of Baroque style and belonging to the Bolognese school.

Cantore Galleria Antiquaria awaits you in Modena to enchant you with the charm of TIMELESS WORKS OF UNMATCHED BEAUTY!

From 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

The sibyl is a female figure who actually existed and then became a legend – documented since the classical age – who is recognized as having divinatory abilities. Becoming a symbol of mediation between the human and the divine, they were often consulted to obtain prophecies on the outcome of future events. In the Christian religion they are mostly cited for having prophesied the birth of Jesus Christ to the pagans. The representation of a sibyl, always solemn and elegant, therefore reifies prophetic capacity and wisdom tout court. Among the numerous representations of Sibyls in art, from the Middle Ages to today, the most iconic are those painted by Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel and in the seventeenth century the well-known ones of the Bolognese pictorial school.

Giovanni Andrea Sirani embodies a leading figure in Bolognese Baroque painting, having inherited Guido Reni’s workshop and consolidating himself as one of his main students and collaborators. After the master’s death in 1642, Sirani took it upon himself to complete the works left incomplete by Reni, thus establishing himself as the guardian and continuer of his style and art. The canvas “Sibyl with pearl earrings” represents the pinnacle of his mastery: Sirani here demonstrates an artistic maturity which, although deeply rooted in Reni’s influence, reveals an autonomous and distinctive pictorial identity. The Sibyl, with her pearl earrings and robe adorned with gold buckles and precious stones, is a symbol of nobility and spiritual connection.

The delicacy with which she holds the scroll, inscribed with the maxim “SALE QVI POTEST LAUDABILA DICERE”, evokes her role as a messenger of truth and wisdom. This representation reflects Sirani’s bond with Reni, but also her evolution towards a personal and distinct style. The dating of the work, around 1650, places it in a period following Reni’s death, when Sirani had already taken over the leadership of the workshop and was defining his path as a full-fledged master. In this phase of his career, Sirani explored themes and techniques that reflected both his master’s legacy and a growing artistic independence, producing works of such a quality that they clearly stood out in the artistic panorama of the time.

Altomani & Sons awaits you in Modenantiquaria from 10 to 18 February!!!!

Giovanni Andrea Sirani (Bologna, 1610 – 1670) Sibyl with pearl earrings Bologna, ca. 1650. Oil on canvas 82 x 61 cm with frame 95.5 x 82.5 cm Attribution: Prof. Massimo Pulini

Alone or in company, the Shadow mini-pool, designed by Marc Sadler, offers a small wellness corner in which you can experience a maximum wellbeing. With its simple and minimal design, Shadow fits perfectly to any internal or external environment, furnishing it with elegance and modernity.
With dimensions of 200x160xH82 cm, it can be installed as a built-in or freestanding unit. The various finishes allow it to fit into different style environments; you can choose between white, black, or dark wood finish paneling, and the thermal cover is also available in anthracite.

PETRA XXX EDITION awaits you from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Saturday 10 February, at 6.00 pm:

Bruno Botticelli, President of the Italian Antique Dealers Association
Sonia Farsetti, President of the Apollo Group Association
Arturo Galansino, Director of the Palazzo Strozzi Foundation in Florence
Francesco Gilioli, Head of Cabinet Ministry of Culture
Fabrizio Moretti, General Secretary of the International Antiques Biennial of Florence
Alessandra Necci, Director of the Estensi Galleries
Giulio Volpe, Lawyer expert in Art and Cultural Heritage Law,
will discuss the topic “ART AND MARKET 2024. Budgets and expectations”!

Leonardo Piccinini, moderator.

UNMISSABLE!

The second meeting will be held on Saturday 17 February, at 6.00 pm
“COLLECTING AND HERITAGE. Passions in comparison” with

Toto Bergamo Rossi, Director Venetian Heritage,
Stefano Aluffi Pentini, Founder of “A Private View of Italy”,
Alessandra Di Castro, Vice President of AAI,
Tommaso Pasquali, Art Historian, Director of Palazzo Bentivoglio, Bologna

Leonardo Piccinini, moderator.

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU AT MODENAFIERE!!!

PLINIO NOMELLINI 1866 -1943
LOST IN MEDITATION, signed “Nomellini” on the bottom right, is the first masterpiece we present from the Paolo Antonacci Gallery in Rome!

107 years after its first exhibition, this panel by Plinio Nomellini (Livorno 1866 – Florence 1943) returns to public viewing: Lost in meditation.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, special furnishings were requested by the new bourgeoisie. Carlo Spicciani, artist – furniture maker from Lucca (Pescia 1879 – Lucca 1943) was an award-winning creator. The art nouveau or deco design was enriched by painted panels, ceramics, glass inserts, specially created by important artists, such as the ceramic decorations of Galileo Chini.

The panel now presented was designed by Plinio Nomellini, together with others with a marine subject, Marina with seagulls, Sails at sunset, and with a romantic atmosphere, The dawn, The night, for a special installation by Carlo Spicciani, the Dining room , created for the International Exhibition of Industry and Labor in Turin in 1911 (only in 1970 did the aforementioned panels reappear in Florence in the sale of the furnishings of Villa Giramonte, organized by San Marco s.a.s., with the titles respectively: Giovinetto con garland of flowers on a landscape background and bust of a young boy in a field of poppies).

In 1911, the 50th anniversary of the unification of Italy was celebrated with large international exhibitions, and since this was the practice, numerous pavilions, temporary and no temporary, with the most original and different architecture were set up all over the world. In Valle Giulia, in Piazza d’Armi, also involving many other areas of the city, Rome was shocked, in Turin the Valentino Park was chosen.

In Florence without any particular arrangements, the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary was held at Palazzo Vecchio with the exhibition of the Italian portrait.

In 1911, Plinio Nomellini, in addition to exhibiting his works in Valle Giulia and the decorations for Spicciani in Turin, also executed numerous panels on historical and Garibaldi subjects for Rome to be included in the Livorno Pavilion of the Regional and Ethnographic Exhibition.

The boy refers to the physiognomy of his son Victor, already his model in the Bacchino, preserved in Florence in the Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti, and in numerous other works.
In photos other unparalleled masterpieces:

Paolo Antonacci awaits you from 10 to 18 February at Modenantiquaria 2024 to enchant you with the sumptuousness and true style of his masterpieces!

BEAUTIFUL LAMPS FOR DOMUS PETRA that change shape, extremely contemporary!

Icone lighting is designed for a changing world.

Lamps that change shape and finishes to adapt to hybrid contexts, as required by the contemporary lifestyle.

The Lama lamp collection designed by Giulio Cappellini and Leonardo Talarico responds to this need.

A collection of table, floor and ceiling lamps produced in different finishes and characterized by a pure and geometric design.

We look forward to seeing you at the thirtieth edition of Petra at ModenaFiere from 10 to 18 February!!

Giovanni Francesco Barbieri known as Guercino is considered one of the most representative artists of the mature phase of the Baroque.

His technical skill and originality of touch had a notable influence on the evolution of decoration in the 17th century. Guercino’s production, completely free from the heaviness and opacity that hindered some contemporary artists, is characterized by strong contrasts of light and airy shading which, although not becoming a means to obtain constructive values as in Caravaggio, create a characteristic freshness and transparency.

“Mystical ecstasy of Saint Francis”: the Saint of Assisi appears to be greatly troubled by the celestial beauty of the music, played by the angel, sent to him by the divine to shake him from a profound period of prostration, of depression we would say today, following the reception of the stigmata.

The Franciscan sources report the date of the apparition, 1224, as well as identifying the precise place where it occurred as the Verna hermitage.

The sentimental rendering of the painting of this work, enhanced by a powerful and dense chromatic material, must have achieved a decisive success, judging also by the requests that reached Guercino and which led him to replicate, more than once, the effective iconographic intuition.

Roberto Ducci and his great masterpieces, of majestic and imposing beauty, awaits you in Modenantiquaria from 10 to 18 February!

TODAY THE THIRD SPLENDID OBJECT OF THE DOMUS PETRA BY GIULIO CAPPELLINI TODAY!
OVAL, bathtub made of Pietraluce by CERAMICA FLAMINIA, DESIGN GIULIO CAPPELLINI, a thin, highly resistant material that does not alter in time and is characterized by a juxtaposition of square shapes and curved lines.

Oval can be free standing or fixed to the wall and owing to its elegance, it can be matched to any line of the Flaminia collection.

We are waiting for you at Petra, we will show you how dreams can come true: a habitable green space in symbiosis with your interior spaces!

The DOMUS PETRA by Giulio Cappellini awaits you!

Among the most famous painters of the Belle Époque, Pompeo Mariani is deeply linked to the investigation of the urban horizons of city life and the light of nature in continuous movement!

Pompeo Mariani is profound joy and freshness, imbued with a poetic realism, which has nothing to envy of the most celebrated brushes of Impressionism and the Belle Époque.

The theatres, the cafés and the horse races; the places responsible for social life, pulsating with human faces and filled with that dynamism and confidence in progress that characterized the roaring years of the Belle Époque are the protagonists in the canvases of the great Artist!

Roaring and vital years of the Belle Époque…become the protagonist of one of the liveliest and most exciting periods in history…we are waiting for you at Modenantiquaria by Quadreria dell’800 to experience strong emotions…from 10th to 18th February in ModenaFiere!

POMPEO MARIANI
At the casino, Montecarlo
Oil on cardboard

The Madonna and Child by Lorenzo Ghiberti, in polychrome and gilded stucco, highlighted with gold in the hair, expresses eternal beauty and sublime sweetness!

On the base two shields with the coats of arms of the families united in marriage!

One of the most beautiful Madonnas of all time, very sweet, strong and expressive face; the Child with an attentive look, wavy and well-cut hair rests his body and his little foot on the Mother’s hands.
The drapery is already free from international Gothic.
The two splendid Angels carrying wreaths at the base recall the façade of the reliquary of Saints Proto Giacinto and Nemesio (Bargello Museum, Florence).

Work dating back to 1420 – 30, it is now attributed to the Florentine master Lorenzo Ghiberti, sculptor and goldsmith, famous for the doors of the Baptistery of San Giovanni in Florence.

Longari Arte Milano awaits you at Modenantiquaria 2024… to enchant and seduce you with “Eternal Beauty”!

For Domus Petra, furnished with antique and contemporary objects, today we present the “BRIDGE” bench!

The design of the “Bridge”, bench by STEELES (design Ilaria Marelli), is reminiscent of construction beams, and is recreated with two perforated sheet metal elements that can be fixed offset, making the seat extendable.
Each metal element can be used as an object holder – wood holder: in this case the drilling, in addition to being an aesthetic element, also becomes a functional element for airing the stored wood.

WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU AT THE XXX EDITION OF PETRA, from 10 to 18 February, TO GIVE YOU UNFORGETTABLE MOMENTS!

“Avvenimento d’arte e di cultura”, by Giulio Aristide Sartorio, a masterpiece of great historical-artistic importance!

Two panels, coming from the same frieze, were recently acquired by the prestigious Musée d’Orsay in Paris.

After the recent sale at the prestigious Musée d’Orsay of two paintings by the Italian artist Giulio Aristide SARTORIO, another painting from the same frieze will be the protagonist at Modenantiquaria in Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine ART: “Avvenimento d’arte e di cultura”.

The majestic panel painted “en grisaille” in oil on canvas constitutes an important discovery from the Antonacci Lapiccirella Gallery of some parts of the decorative frieze created by the artist for the Esposizione Internazionale del Sempione in 1906.

As evidenced by the signature and date along the edge at the top right, the panel was enriched by the artist with strokes of color in 1923, for the cruise of the Royal Yacht “Italia”, a showy propaganda cruise which had the intent to enhance and raise awareness of Italian culture and art.

Giulio Aristide SARTORIO
Avvenimento d’arte e di cultura, 1906 – 1923
Oil on canvas, 98 x 392 cm
Signed and dated on the upper right-hand edge: G.A.SARTORIO, ROMA, MCMXXIII
Provenance: Marga Sartorio Collection, Rome; Private collection, Rome

The Domus Petra by Giulio Cappellini is arriving, a true reinterpretation of the Pompeian Domus, in which external space and internal space merge into one, becoming a unique environment to be experienced!

Objects, ancient and contemporary furnishings: a deep dialogue between Design and Architecture, landscape design and history.

The open-air Fitness Room where you can train and relax your mind “Out Fit” is an Ethimo project that creates an unprecedented way of living outdoors and connecting to the landscape: a complete true search for balance between physical fitness and well-being.

Ethimo is constant attention to details, noble and innovative materials that mix together by creating unexpected combinations: new shades of color and new finishes.

Ethimo’s style is based on simplicity, harmony and well-being.
A universal and unmistakable language that has its roots in the land and in the hearts of each of us.

At the origin of Ethimo’s entrepreneurial experience lies the strong passion for Nature!

“Out Fit”, Design Studio Adolini, founded in 1984, operates in various fields taking part to several new residential and industrial building projects, restorations and conservative recoveries of monuments, interior architecture and exhibition and museum installations.
Partners of the Studio, Romano and Niccolò Adolini.

«”Emancipation of Women, a gathering of women who deal with the great question! But a little mouse suddenly emerging from the wall terrifies them”: the agendas, the notes, the inkwells, the question everything is turned upside down. The women run away, jump on chairs, scream. An immense and well-drawn painting”.

This is how the large vertical canvas “Emancipation of Women” was described in a magazine of the time, presented by Pietro Saporetti at the National Exhibition of Fine Arts in Rome in 1883 and then re-proposed the following year in Turin and in 1885 in Faenza.

Pietro Saporetti, cosmopolitan and international in his relationships, was born in Ravenna on 25 December 1907.
He portrayed proud, sanguine, cloaked characters from that restless and generous Romagna.

He then left Ravenna and moved with his father to Paris to save himself from the persecution of the fascists. He regularly met Leonor Fini, Breton and Tzara who led him to the surrealist experience.
Saporetti is a painter of great irony, a detached spectator and scrutineer of reality.

Following to this engaging masterpiece follows INCIPIT VITA NOVA by Cesare Saccaggi, Dante’s great love for Beatrice, a love that begins at the age of 9: the sight of the “VERY YOUNG ANGEL” causes the future poet to immediately fall in love, a real upheaval inner.

CANVASES WITH A STRONG ATTRACTIVE POWER, TIMELESS MASTERPIECES THAT WILL ENCHANT YOU!

PHIDIAS ANTIQUES awaits you in Modenantiquaria from 10 to 18 February to give you strong emotions!

Girolamo Marchesi (Cotignola, 1471 – Rome, 1550) is an Italian painter of the Renaissance, with a relevant personality in the Bolognese panorama within the third and fourth decades of the sixteenth century, characterized by his progressive adherence to Raphaelesque innovations.

Born in Cotignola, hence his nickname of Girolamo da Cotignola, the town of origin of the Sforza family, Marchesi was an apprentice in the workshop of the Zaganelli family, of Bernardino, from whom references to Bolognese, Ferrara and Venetian painting emerge and clear repetitions of those elegant Perugino’s patterns, so dear to his master, are highlighted.

Instead, it is from Francesco that he acquires the Nordic tone that characterizes his anti-classical streak, and then decides to walk alone, maturing a surprising stylistic turning point in the wake of the great Raphael.

His painting moved from the late fifteenth-century style, practiced up to 1520, to the sixteenth-century style, characterized by the imitation of Raphael and his followers.

He went to Naples where he had the help of the Florentine merchant Cambi Tommaso. According to Giorgio Vasari, he married a woman of ill repute in that city.

Girolamo Marchesi’s masterpiece tells of a timeless story, that of Ulysses and his beloved Penelope.

Ulysses or Odysseus, King of Ithaca, son of Laertes, is one of the Achaean heroes described by Homer in the Iliad and the Odyssey.
A man of great cunning and intelligence, he is frequently at odds with the gods (like Poseidon whose anger was the cause of many of his adventures).
Odysseus, after 10 years spent at war in Troy, would return to his wife and son in Ithaca but Poseidon’s hatred prevents him. 10 years of adventures and then managing to return home with the help of the goddess Athena. From the Sirens to the Cyclops Polyphemus to Circe who transformed men into pigs, Ulysses really went through a lot before he could return home.

When he finally arrives in Ithaca with the help of Athena, he is hosted by Eumaeus, as a beggar. After revealing himself to his son Telemachus, he went to the Palace and managed to be welcomed. Here, mocked by the suitors, Penelope’s suitors, Odysseus took part in the bow competition organized by his wife, who had promised to give herself in marriage to the one who would have been able to shoot an arrow from her husband’s bow, making it pass through the slots of twelve axes aligned. None of the suitors managed to string the bow. Only Ulysses succeeded and eliminated the suitors one by one and then hugged the much-loved Penelope again!

CARLO ORSI awaits you at Modenantiquaria, stand Guercino 2, with Maurizio Nobile Fine Art from 10 to 18 February: we are waiting for you!

Maurizio Nobile Fine Art presents Berenice by Michele Desubleo, the Flemish in Italy!

The great value of the Desubleo was that of having been able to harmonize and balance in a language of absorbed elegance (which foreshadows the imminent Arcadia) the influences of Caravaggio style combined with the fundamental Guido Reni experience and the relationships with Venetian painting (Liberi, Ricchi, Mazzoni but also Cagnacci).

Have you ever admired the immensity of the sky and its boundless splendor while lying on a blanket contemplating the stars or walking under a starry sky?
Each constellation that illuminates the firmament tells a story, a myth, a legend.
One of these tells a beautiful love story!

The myth tells of Berenice Evergete, a Cyrenaic queen of extraordinary beauty, with delicate features and very long, shiny hair, a source of admiration and envy for all women.

After the wedding, her husband Ptolemy left for a military campaign in Syria and Berenice, worried about his fate, made a solemn vow to the goddess Aphrodite Zephyrite, offering her hair if she would return her husband unharmed.

Ptolemy returned triumphant and Berenice kept her promise: she cut her long hair and took it to the temple dedicated to Aphrodite.

The next day no trace of hair.

Her husband had everything searched until Conon of Sarno, a great mathematician, astrologer and court astronomer, friend of Archimedes, raised his fingers to the sky and pointed to three stars showing that the gods had appreciated the offering and had stared at Berenice’s splendid hair in the firmament.

Vittorio Matteo Corcos (Livorno, 1859 – Florence, 1933) was born in Livorno, an elegant, free and stimulating city.

The young artist left for Paris, where he remained for six years, encountering the circles of De Nittis and the skilled merchant Goupil.

Very sweet, almost “candy” portraits of white-skinned, seductive and affected ladies from high society: the details of the clothes and fabrics, the preciousness of the embroidery are a characteristic of Vittorio Corcos.

Master of the “worldly portrait”, his works fascinate with a never overt eroticism and therefore even more intriguing.
Countesses, princesses, and empresses whose mission is immortal beauty, divine in their poses and bearing like Lina Cavalieri, testimony of “Venus on earth” for D’Annunzio!

Picture: Vittorio Matteo Corcos, “Portrait of a woman with flowers in her hand”

Galleria Arte Cesaro awaits you at Modenantiquaria 2024…pure enchantment, from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Seductive and deeply provocative “The pouting bride” by Vincenzo Irolli will reign supreme in Galleria Goldoni from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Thanks to his unmistakable brushstroke, lively and full of light and colour, over the years he earned the nicknames of “Painter of the sun, Prodigious Irolli, Star of the first magnitude…”.

He painted landscapes, many episodes of daily life – Going to school, maternal sweetness, peasant girl, the pouting bride – and also portraits of important personalities of the Neapolitan city – the poet Salvatore di Giacomo, the double bass player Carmine Franchi… – which he never abandoned and where died in 1949.

His traditionalist imprint did not make him be loved by the critics of the time who were more interested in the avant-garde, but Irolli never did anything to adapt his painting to the times. Indeed, he kept in his studio a painting depicting a painter intent on finishing a bad cubist painting, very fashionable at the time, demonstrating gentle irony towards new trends.

While Le Figaro of 1908 used words such as “extrêmement habile” and “séduisant” for Irolli, Italian (and especially Neapolitan) intellectuals considered him an artist sold to the patronage of the uncultured bourgeoisie. While in Paris, in the years 1910-1915, he was defined as the painter of the sun and considered excellent by Léon Talboum at the Alderéte Gallery, in Italy, in the same period, he was subjected to harsh criticism by Ardengo Soffici. Regardless of criticism, Irolli continued his work throughout his life and produced valuable works, creating admirable portraits of commoners, charming girls and above all beautiful children; with a masterful technique he painted scenes of everyday life, giving them an unmistakable narrative quality, simple, immediate, of great effect and pervaded with light.

Galleria d’Arte Goldoni awaits you from 10 to 18 February at Modenantiquaria 2024!

John the Baptist is the most depicted saint in art of all centuries; It cannot be said that there is no altarpiece or painting of a group of saints, alone or around the throne of the Virgin Mary, without this saint present, usually dressed in an animal skin and holding a stick ending in the shape of a cross.

Not to mention the many pictorial works of the greatest artists such as Raffaello, Leonardo, etc. which depict him as a child, playing with little Jesus, always covered in sheepskin.

This testifies to the great interest that this austere prophet has aroused in all ages, so high in the same consideration as Christ, that he defined him as “The greatest among those born of women”.

The Baptist lived in the desert and fed on locusts and wild honey, untouched by impure hands.
Saint John baptized with water, Jesus with fire and the Holy Spirit!

Salome, the beautiful daughter of Herodias who opposed the Baptist with all her being, asked for the Saint’s head after a dance performed in front of King Herod… and unfortunately he had to keep the promise made before everyone’s eyes, that he would have given her what she had requested …

“The greatest among those born of women” is how Jesus defined the Baptist!

We await you at Modenantiquaria with other intriguing and mysterious stories… ARS ANTIQUA awaits you from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere!

Maestro Degli Armenti
Saint John the Baptist in the desert
Oil on canvas

=> Ars Antiqua opened in 2000 following the initiative of Federico and Francesco Bulgarini. The gallery stands out for its desire to give primary importance to the study of ancient works of art – sculptures, furniture and paintings. Making a selection based on artistic specificity and historical contextualization. A further section dedicated to modern and contemporary art completes the view on the world of art.

Giovanni Boldini was an ultra-chic artist, especially when he portrayed long-sighted ladies of international high society who appear painted as if under a translucent glass.

An expert in that world and in the French literature that represented it, he was the greatest interpreter of feminine elegance in an era in which it was too much covered by the artifices of tailors and milliners, figuratively tied in ambiguous poses that are between living room and theatre.

Those portraits have a strong power of enchantment: they reveal spontaneous and confident talents as a painter…”, this is how the art critic Bernard Berenson wrote about Giovanni Boldini in 1958.

Among the most virtuous and fruitful painters of his time, Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931) was able to capture the essence of a dazzling environment, of which he was one of the most important and acclaimed protagonists.

Who they were, what they did, how they spent their long days and where those femmes fatales of the Belle Époque lived that Giovanni Boldini (1842-1931), “le peintre italien de Paris“, had the honor and merit of representing in his canvases?

But, above all, how modern and elegant were they in their clothes that perfectly suited their slender and sinuous bodies, how unscrupulous and obsessed with the vertigo of the senses, how vain and at the same time firm in their moral virtues?

Giovanni Boldini and the seductive charm of the “Femme fatales” by Gallerie Maspes awaits you at Modenantiquaria 2024!

Giovanni Boldini
“The Countess of Gunzbourg”
Oil on canvas, 91 x 71.5 cm
Signed lower right: “Boldini”

The TEMPTATIONS of Saint Anthony the Abbot in Camillo Procaccini’s Masterpiece by LE DUE TORRI!

The temptations… which are part of the life of all of us have characterized even SAINTS AND GODS since ancient times as you can imagine by looking at this priceless masterpiece by Procaccini by Galleria LE DUE TORRI!

The saint is collapsed on the ground and attacked by demons who hold him and beat him with chains and sticks!

The hermit admires an apparently beautiful Woman, blonde and richly adorned, who is in truth a demon with horns and claws!

The work comes from the collection of the Marquises Soranzo Picenardi; in 2007 Morandotti linked the painting with the drawing preserved in the British Museum in London and exhibited in the “Camillo Procaccini (1561 – 1629) exhibition.
Compared to the drawing in the British Museum, the canvas has a more elongated format and the other monstrous-looking demons are not present in the upper part. It is also possible that the British Museum drawing characterized by a high level of elaboration and finishing is not to be considered preparatory to the painting in question, but a derivation. A counterpart engraving was taken from the drawing by the Flemish artist Abraham Blooteling (ca. 1675).

If God is who he is, the devil is the one who changes!

Nothing is more true if we analyze the evolution of the image of the Devil over the centuries.
No single representation can fully express the multifaceted and complex nature of the devil, which shows itself precisely through the diversity and variety of his metamorphoses!

There is a real “bestiary of the evil” with many depictions of the same.
From the Latin DIABOLUM to the Greek DIABALLEIN up to Beelzebub and Satan!

THIS CREATURE HAS EXISTED SINCE THE NIGHT OF TIME, from the Egyptians with the God SETH, with the features of a goat or a jackal, to the Maya, whose divinity PUCH was always accompanied by dogs or owls to presage bad luck, the horned god of the north Western Europe, the Cernunno of ancient Celtic mythology, the satyr of classical mythology, and BES divinity of ancient Egypt, whose nakedness and enormous open mouth were described by some artists. hair dishevelled or flaming and tongue protruding.

The Devil is changeable, deceptive, feral but at the same time disturbing and fascinating! The devil hides behind false disguises, a winking smile and powerful charm as in this work in which the Saint is flattered by the beautiful blonde adorned with sparkling and precious jewels…behind these seductive appearances lies a real devil with horns and claws!

Come and be tempted at Modenantiquaria 2024! We promise you STRONG EMOTIONS!
LE DUE TORRI awaits you!

The “Friends of the Landscape” Committee is preparing, for Petra 2024, a program of meetings and stories on the “Landscape and its changes”, the “Gardens”, the “Nature between Art and Architecture”.
Three different meeting and storytelling formats during the nine days of the fair:

– Trend Trial – edited by The Playful Living.
Opinions on planning trends, design, and landscaping seen from different points of view and judged by designers, exhibiting companies, committee members, invited experts.
The idea of simulating a trial was born to give a civil, informed, calm and playful form to the debate: there will be a “judge”, a “prosecution”, a “defence”, a “popular jury”. These figures will interact with each other regarding a trend considered as “imputed”.
The format creates a schedule of informative content on new panoramas and will aim to show not only the emerging and established trends, but also the positive and negative sides that these bring with them.

– Talks by and on “Projects and Landscapes”, organized by the Friends of the Landscape Committee:
landscape architects, architects, designers, institutions and associations will create moments of dialogue and discussion also through the presentation of projects for gardens, natural areas and green infrastructures. An hour of dialogue with experts to understand how the landscape is changing and how projects are changing both in the city and outside. How architecture, artistic installations, objects, furnishings, equipment and systems that enrich urban and non-urban spaces are transformed, between outdoors and indoors.

– Gardens and urban landscapes: exhibitions and projections – organized by the Friends of the Landscape Committee.
In Petra, a space that hosts the wooden models and drawings of the urban landscapes designed by the architect Giuseppe Maria Soli for Modena between 700 and 800, a space that also transforms into a living room to host the projections of the Great Italian Gardens.

MAGICAL AND ENCHANTED LOVE, longing, and desires: this too is Modenantiquaria 2024!

In one of the most elegant streets of Turin there is Gianluca Arcuti’s Gallery, Roman by birth but Savoyard by adoption.
The gallery specializes in paintings and furnishings from the 16th century to the early 20th century.

The refined elegance of the Piedmont capital has won over Arcuti, whose inclination for beauty and the ancient dates back to a distant past. Born in Rome in 1967, he has been dealing with antiques since 1988, first within the family business and then in his own studio. Since 2011 he has participated in important sector exhibitions, such as Modenantiquaria, the Rome Biennale, Amart in Milan and Flashback in Turin.
Masterpieces of “ABSOLUTE BEAUTY AND VALUE” by Gianluca Arcuti and with a truly intriguing story!
Circe, the enchantress who transformed men into pigs, seduced by her immense beauty and her sweet, fairy voice!
Cupid as a hunter, of “new loves” and prey!
Have you ever dreamed about love and turned your thoughts to Cupid who could solve all your love problems with a bewitched arrow?

The god of love was always ready to shoot his arrows to make the luckiest “victims” fall in love and make them fall into the arms of their soul mate.

Son of the goddess Venus, Aphrodite in Greek, and Ares, Mars in Latin, who can say, not to know Cupid.

Where does the little winged angel who makes people fall in love by shooting his enchanted arrows come from? The name Cupid – which means desire, greed – was given by the Romans to the Greek god of love, actually called Eros.
The task of the winged boy, who had been given a bow and arrows, was to strike divinities and men equally, making them fall hopelessly in love, causing an inevitable love at first sight.
AND THAT’S WHERE THE FAMOUS SAYING COME FROM “I was love at first sight” just by seeing him/her.

Throughout history, the figure of Cupid is interpreted and therefore depicted as a winged boy, armed with a bow and arrows, a hunter of prey as in the painting by Gianluca Arcuti, sometimes accompanied by flowers or a lyre.

Again, he was represented blindfolded, indicating blind love. Finally, during the Hellenistic era his figure became increasingly sweet and childish, until he became a real winged cherub.

Gianluca Arcuti and his “ENCHANTED MASTERPIECES” AWAITS YOU AT MODENANTIQUARIA 2024!

An object from other times evokes the wisdom of master craftsmen, their passion and the refinement of cabinet makers, carvers, goldsmiths, and painters, who lived again traditions in their workshops and handed down the secrets of the trade.

A passion, that for precious objects, which has always characterized “Mattarte”, founded as an art workshop in 1896 by Giovanni Matta, continued by Giuseppe Matta, and developed in the 1950s by Giovanni Matta, who enlarged the company, making it sensitive to market changes and the ever-increasing needs of customers.

Antiques have always represented a fashionable choice, but over time they have also proven to be a good investment. And this is especially true now adays when financial investments reserve often unpleasant surprises.

Mattarte awaits you from 10 to 18 February at Modenantiquaria 2024!
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Giamblanco Gallery was born from the partnership and passion of the Giamblanco spouses, together since 1993, Doctor Deborah Lentini and Prof. Salvatore Giamblanco, both graduates from the Academy of Fine Arts (Turin, for Deborah and Venice, for Salvatore); Professor Salvatore Giamblanco currently teaches Painting at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.

The in-depth study of the paintings and the probable attribution of the work are the strength that has always linked the two spouses; whether it comes from a private collection or from the antiques market.

In collaboration with art historians, they have always been committed to offering certified and guaranteed works. Since 2013 they have been creating catalogs to confirm the scientific quality of their work.
Many works from the Giamblanco Gallery have been acquired by important museums and art venues.

To give an example: the Allegory of Painting by Bernardo Strozzi, a work of pictorial excellence, resides in the National Gallery of Palazzo Spinola.

The «Allegory of Painting», preserved for several years in the Zerbone collection of Genoa, re-emerged from the antiques market only in 1973, but from that moment it became an integral part of the catalog of Bernardo Strozzi, one of the leading artists of the early seventeenth century Italian. Strozzi completed his initial training in the workshop of the Sienese painter Pietro Sorri at the end of the sixteenth century and began his activity in Genoa. After being welcomed into the Order of Capuchin Friars Minor in 1598, between 1609 and 1610 he asked his superiors for permission to fully practice his profession, to contribute to the support of his mother and sister.

In his first works Bernardo looks at the models of late mannerism proposed by his Tuscan master, but also by Lombard artists such as Cerano, Procaccini and Morazzone. In Genoa he can also deepen his study of masterpieces by Caravaggio and his followers, and of the authors of the Flemish school present in the best collections of the Superba, significantly enriching his figurative lexicon. During the 1920s he found in Pieter Paul Rubens that richness of chromatic mixtures, which would become a hallmark of his art.

Bernardo Strozzi (Genoa, 1581 – Venice, 1644), Allegory of painting
Author: BERNARDO STROZZI (Genoa, 1581 – Venice, 1644)
Title: Allegory of painting
Technique: Oil on canvas
Period: 1600

STAY TUNED… soon we will reveal the great masterpieces of Galleria Giamblanco that awaits you from 10 to 18 February at Modenantiquaria 2024!

Secol-Art antiques gallery was founded in Turin in 1984 from the desire of the spouses Bruno and Maria Masoero to transform their love for beauty, experienced through being collectors, into a real profession.

Since 1985 it has been part of the Italian Federation of Art Dealers, participating in the most important Italian exhibitions in the sector.

Since ever specialized in dealing with works from the 17th and 18th centuries, over the years, thanks to the experience gained by her sons Davide and Alberto, the Gallery has successfully broadened the temporal range by also offering works from the high period up to a historicized contemporary period, some of which accompanied by studies by the most respected art historians.

The intent is to address the world of refined collecting by offering refined and international objects, educating a taste for beauty that does not allow itself to be influenced by current fashions, with the awareness that anyone who owns a work of art is nothing other than the temporary custodian of the work itself.

Since 2016 Davide Masoero, owner of the Gallery, has been part of the prestigious Italian Antique Dealers Associations.

The Gallery’s objective is to participate in international exhibitions, also thanks to some experiences of temporary loans to museums and sector events.

What will Secol-Art have in store for us at Modenantiquaria 2024!?
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Inside the elegant Falcone and Borsellino Gallery we find the Caminetto Art Gallery, which has been promoting ancient and modern art for over fifty years.

In 1962 the Professors Romana and Paolo Zauli founded an art studio inside Palazzo Salina Brazzetti in via Barberia 13.

In 1966 they created the Caminetto Art Gallery, motivated by an act of solidarity towards the Florentine antique dealers who suffered a violent flood that year.

They inaugurate the exhibition activity with the “Ancient Drawings” exhibition, in the hall on the first floor of Palazzo Salina Brazzetti, mostly including artists from Bologna.

The name of the company is due to this location, in this noble hall, in fact, there was a beautiful ancient fireplace which inspired the definitive name of the Gallery.

In 1971 the shop moved to the basement of via Marescalchi, formerly the old “Buca Genasi”, the ancient Osteria Toledo, and in this regard we remember the original definition of “art bunker”, given by the journalist Franco Basile on Resto del Carlino in 1977.

The article tells the story of the Zauli couple and their particular exhibition space in the heart of the city, where drawings, majolica, ancient objects and engravings are kept. The shop later moved to the first floor of the same building, and then reached its current location in Falcone and Borsellino Gallery.

This last venue was inaugurated in April 1994 by Dr. Maria, daughter of Romana and Paolo, who continued in the wake of her parents, promoting some important exhibitions of ancient art inside the shop and taking part to others on the national territory, such as: Mostrabella of Bologna, Cartantica of Florence, Modenantiquaria and Padovantiquaria.

During Artefiera, an exhibition in Bologna dedicated to modern and contemporary art, the spaces of the Gallery host exhibitions dedicated to the sculptural art of the 20th century.
In over fifty years of activity there have been more than three hundred and twenty exhibitions, of which we mention some of the most significant: Ancient drawing from the 15th to the 19th century, Thirty unpublished drawings by Donato Creti, Emilian engravers from the 16th to the 19th century, the Liberty and ancient engravings in Bologna.

Among the great Master of Art we remember the exhibitions dedicated to Guercino and his followers, Pelagio Pelagi and Felice Giani, and the sculptures, lithographs and engravings created by Carlo Leoni.

Raffaello Pernici’s almost thirty-year experience, born from an innate passion for ceramics and porcelain, characterizes the selection and quality imprint of the Gallery, highly specialized in majolica, ceramics, and period artistic porcelain. The collection moves from the historic nineteenth-century manufactures such as Ginori, Cantagalli and Minghetti, flows into the Art Nouveau period with the excellence of Galileo Chini and the main Tuscan manufactures, until reaching the deco period with the innovation of Gio Ponti and the extraordinary success of the Lenci manufacture.

A “gallery” of precious, refined, sometimes very rare objects which, parading in a long and eclectic path and reflecting the tastes of various eras, recall a history of skills in the use of materials and genius in the creation of a style.

Raffaello Pernici awaits you at Modenantiquaria from 10 to 18 February with precious objects that will enchant you!

Giusti Antichità, present on the market since 1967, presents a refined selection of furniture, paintings, and antiques. The constant research, conducted with passion, has allowed Matteo Giusti to gather a vast collection of works in the company spaces; the experience in the antiques sector, together with attention to quality, are offered to customers when evaluating and acquiring works that attract the interest of specialists, collectors and enthusiasts.
Research conducted at a national and international level, relationships with institutions and consultancy from art historians are increasingly of fundamental importance. Over the years Giusti Antichità has granted the loan of works for temporary exhibitions and has completed negotiations with banking foundations and museums. He is a member of FIMA and has been present at Modenantiquaria since the first edition.

ONE OF THE BREATHTAKING WORKS on display from 10 to 18 February at ModenaFiere is the Madonna with Child by Benedetto Gennari which comes from the STUART COURT!

The Mother’s lowered eyes, statuesque nose and faint smile make up a very sweet face, inscribed in an oval that thins out like the neck that supports it.
Calibrated in the colors and folds are the fabrics that are stratified on the bust and on the head of the Virgin, while it is the playful action of the Son that allows us to identify the painting with certainty, in the intense activity of Benedetto Gennari, and we discover that it was conceived when he was at the Stuart Court.

In fact, at number 111 of the Note on the paintings executed in London from 1674 to 1688 we find the following words, written by the painter himself: “A small picture of a virgin with a cherub who jokingly offers them a rose to smell, and I gave this as a gift to Father Pitir, Jesuit advisor to King James”.
The painting is carried out with an obsessive attention to detail, the same purist gaze of other nearby works, resulting in a painting that seems to have almost forgotten Guercino’s style to definitely approach that of Carlo Dolci, the protagonist of the most enamelled and precious painting of the century.
Benedetto, away from home, therefore, did not intend to exploit the family legacy as a pass for his inclusion in the courts of Paris and London, if not as a pure premise of origin and decided to focus on a decisive distance and on forms aimed at elegance sumptuous. The first French stay marked Benedict’s new style, which would find its maximum expression in London at the Stuart Court.
The references to the pictorial preferences of Louis XVI are clear, ranging from Charles le Brun to Pierre Mignard and to those of Charles II, at whose court the myth of Antony van Dyck still resisted, to which the more recent one of Sir Peter Lely had been added.
The Bolognese artist accentuated some of his talents already identified in the formative phase, attenuating the more sanguine elements, and quickly acquiring a perfectly Northern European taste.
In this sense we can speak of aristocratic purism and of a close kinship with the sparkling poetics of sacred and noble affections that Dolci had brought to extreme consequences in similar subjects, where spirituality is achieved by following a path of glassy clarity.

Bibliography: Massimo Pulini, A Madonna with Child for the court of England, 2021, NFC Edizioni
Exhibitions: Unicum, stories at the Museum, Luigi Tonini City Museum, T May – 13 June 2021, curated by Massimo Pulini

BENEDETTO GENNARI
(Cento, 1633 – Bologna,1715)
Madonna with Child
Oli on canvas, cm 72 x 62
Study by Massimo Pulini

Origin:
England, Stuart Court (Charles II, regent from 1661 to 1685), (James II, regent from 1685-1688), Catherine of Braganza (1638-1705), Lisbon, private collection

Giusti Antichità awaits you at Modenantiquaria!!!

The new Petra 2024 project is coordinated by the “Amici del Paesaggio” (Friends of the landscapes) Committee created with the aim of coordinating the cultural activities of the Event, the meetings with experts, landscape architects, gardeners and international designers who will discuss themes related to the classic and contemporary Landscape and they will tell stories between “Nature and Architecture”.

The “Amici del Paesaggio” Committee is made up of:
• Mauro Felicori – Councilor for Culture and Landscape of the Emilia Romagna Region
• Gianluca Cristoni – President Biohabitat
• Marco Filippucci – President of the Emilia Romagna Architects Federation
• Luca Fois – Creative Advisor
• Antonella Grossi – ModenaFiere Consultant
• Marco Momoli – CEO of ModenaFiere
• Ruggero Moncada Di Paternò – Architect
• Roberto Pasini – Full Professor of Landscape Architecture – ALMA Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
• Judith Wade – President of Grandi Giardini Italiani

800/900 Artstudio was founded in 1978 and it is managed by the brothers Giovanna and Filippo Bacci from Capaci.

The Gallery specializes in artists operating in the second half of the 19th century and in the 20th century, a long artistic season marked by the presence of great masters and lesser-known artists who, thanks to the promotion carried out in the Livorno and Lucca offices, have acquired their place in the field of Italian art history (Adriano Baracchini Caputi, Guglielmo Amedeo Lori, Elin Danielson, Raffaello Gambogi, Francesco Fanelli, Giangualberto Guerrazzi, Alfredo Müller, Ferruccio Pagni, Leonetto Cappiello, Arturo Checchi, Fillide Levasti, etc.).

The gallerists have organized exhibitions at their own venues and at public bodies (from I pittori del Lago, Artistic culture around Giacomo Puccini set up in the Palazzo Medici in Seravezza in 1998 to the exhibition inaugurated at the Palazzo Pretorio in Pontedera in December 2019 Arcadia and Apocalypse, landscapes Italians in 150 years of art, photography, video and installations).

Since 1982 the gallery has regularly participated in important antiques exhibitions (Florence, Biennale; Milan, Internazionale dell’Antiquariato; Modena, Modenantiquaria; Saloni dell’Ottocento di Saint-Vincent, Modena, Como).

From the Macchiaioli, true Revolutionaries of the “macchia”, such as Odoardo Borrani, Giuseppe Abbati and Vincenzo Cabianca, to Matteo Vittorio Corcos and Giuseppe Capogrossi and Anselmo Bucci, Carlo Carrà, Mario Cavaglieri and Galileo Chini…these are just some of the great Masters that the Gallery deals with!

800/900 Artstudio awaits you in Modenantiquaria!

Paolo Rotili, always attracted by antiquity, began frequenting the workshop of a talented Umbrian restorer at the age of fifteen, from whom he learned techniques and secrets of the profession. He opened his first antique furniture restoration and sales business in Orvieto and after a few years he decided to move north to broaden his work experience in search of works of art that fully satisfy his great passion.

At the end of 2005 he met his colleague Anna Maria Cucci, who later became his partner, an art historian (graduated in art from DAMS and in literature from Urbino, with a thesis in art history on “Raphael and the historiated majolica”, to end in 2012 with the third degree in classical archaeology). They begin to collaborate immediately and together with them the little Alice, a black poodle who accompanies them everywhere.

To honor her faithful presence, the idea of choosing her name for a new path of the Gallery arose and so, also at the suggestion of dear friends, also in the sector, “AliceFineArt” was born.

Anna and Paolo began collaborating immediately in the family shop, in the historic center of Rimini (now Piazza Tre Martiri, formerly the ancient Roman forum).
Thanks to the intuition of the two, accompanied by continuous studies and research, making use of the highest recognized experts, multiple discoveries have been made:

The two UNPUBLISHED PASQUALINO ROSSI and a large painting by J.H.W Tischbein “Ossiarte offers his daughter Rossane in marriage to Alexander the Great”, painted by the artist during his first stay in Rome, purchased in September 2020 by the Museum la Casa di Goethe (Rome).

The unpublished works that can be ascribed with certainty to the brush of Pasqualino Rossi are not only an exceptional find for the curriculum of this petit-maître, but for the history of 17th century collecting: in fact they come from the prestigious collection of Gaspar de Haro y Guzmàn VII Marquis of Carpio.
The exceptional nature of the two canvases lies in the fact that they are the only ones, up to now, that we know of as a profane subject and testify to a part of his activity that was only known through period inventories.
THE TWO unpublished CANVASES TELL TRULY ENGAGING STORIES FULL OF EMOTION: the great love between Venus and Adonis and that of Nessus for Deianira.

Adonis, born from the incestuous union between Cynyras, king of Cyprus, and his daughter Myrrha, was a beautiful young man! Venus, inadvertently scratched by one of her son Cupid’s arrows, fell madly in love with him.
She couldn’t even be seen in the sky anymore. He preferred Adonis to heaven. She had become his inseparable companion: she was used to staying sheltered and taking care only of herself, taking care of her beauty to make it even more resplendent, now she went around crags and woods, on terrain bristling with rocks and thorns… (OVID’S METAMORPHOSIS)

Venus tried in vain to stop him from hunting, but she could do nothing.
Hearing the moans of the dying man, the Goddess came to his aid when, however, it was too late. At the point where the blood of Adonis fell, marvelous ANEMONES arose.

THE SECOND UNPUBLISHED MASTERPIECE BY PASQUALINO ROSSI tells of NESSO who falls in love with Deinaria, Hercules’ bride, just by seeing her, when she shows up with her husband to be ferried.
He tried to kidnap her by carrying her on his shoulder, but Hercules stopped him with an arrow and killed him.

What will ALICE FINE ART have in store for us in this new edition of Modenantiquaria?
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Antonacci Lapiccirella Fine Art was founded in 2012 from the merger of two historic art galleries already present on the international market for several generations. The Gallery quickly became a point of reference for the fans of “Grand Tour” paintings, as well as drawings and sculptures from the late 18th to the first half of the 20th century.

Francesca and Damiano are tireless seekers of BEAUTY, the UNIQUE, and the RARE. Theirs is a decidedly eclectic approach, in which an aesthetic sense of great refinement makes their proposals ALWAYS recognizable.

They took part in the most prestigious of antiques exhibitions such as the Salon du Dessin and the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris; they also exhibit regularly at TEFAF Maastricht and at the International Biennial of Antiques in Palazzo Corsini, Florence.

Many of their works have joined major public collections such as the National Gallery in Washington, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti in Florence, the Polo Museale Fiorentino, the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, the Prague Museum, the Villa Mansi Museum in Lucca, the Fontainebleau Museum, the Hamburger Kunsthalle in Hamburg, the Musée D’Orsay, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Toledo Museum of Art, USA, Cincinnarti Art Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art as well as numerous private collections.

“Damiano and I are both children of art but with different educational backgrounds. What unites us is that we both grew up surrounded by beauty, by art, seeing our fathers’ emotion when making a purchase, the sense of wonder discovering an object or a painting. We intend to continue working in this way, following our instincts, and letting ourselves be guided by the values of BEAUTY, QUALITY and RARITY.”

FRANCESCA ANTONACCI, who hails from an old-established family of antique dealers that has been doing business in Rome since 1916. Studying in the school of Giuliano Briganti, she conducted research into Italian 17th century painting and built up her knowledge and experience with periods of study and work in Paris and London at his father’s gallery. She ran the family’s celebrated gallery in Via del Babuino for many years.

“The antiquarian is born a collector; he is born with the desire for possession. We buy what excites us, what we would like to have for ourselves, whose intensity, historical-artistic importance and quality we would be able to describe.”

DAMIANO LAPICCIRELLA went on to inherit the celebrated antique gallery founded by his father Leonardo in 1959 in Florence. After studying and working in London, he returned to Italy and took up the management of his family business, entering the gallery once again in the most important Italian and international trade fairs and focusing on European painting and drawing from the 16th to the early 20th centuries.

STAY TUNED…prestigious MASTERPIECES with an exciting and absolutely NEW story are coming soon!

The installation, designed by Marta Meda and Luca Fois at Petra 2024: “mood board islands” tells a selection of objects and materials, the scenarios of outdoor life and the new aesthetics of the landscape.

The installation is an exploration, from the stylist architect’s point of view, of how systems, technology, products, furnishings, and materials create a new landscape aesthetic.

A series of “mood board islands” to describe outdoor life scenarios with a selection of objects and materials:
Kids&Green, the world of children who experience nature, where playing means growing and experimenting
Vases&Vases, the “dens” of plants, a selection of shapes, materials, colors and sizes for indoors and outdoors.
Green Hands, everything that is useful to have and know to take care of greenery.
Materials in love, different materials that live well together, indoors and outdoors.
Food&Green, what is needed to best honor outdoor conviviality.
Outdoor relaxation, feeling good outdoors alone and in company.

The project of
Marta Meda, Architect and Stylist, tells stories and settings with products, materials, and colors that suite together and set to create emotions and suggestions linked to living.

Luca Fois, Creative Advisor, founder of Zona Tortona 2000-2010, Professor at the Polytechnic of Milan in Event Design, co-director of the International Master in Kids&Toys Design at Polidesign and Creative Director of The Playful Living.
Camilla Fraboni, Product Service System Designer – Francesca Urli, Graduated in Industrial Design

40 years of excellent Ancient Art: INTERNATIONAL Protagonist at Modenantiquaria 2024 “ALTOMANI & SONS”!

Altomani & Sons, based in Milan and Pesaro, directed by Giancarlo Ciaroni, Anna Maria Altomani and their son Andrea, has been dealing with excellent ancient art for over 40 years; everything started from the passion for MAJOLICA of the high period and then continued in the name of the search for a high artistic quality of works of ITALIAN PAINTING, SCULPTURE AND ANTIQUE FURNITURE, between the 12th and 17th centuries.

MASTERPIECES FROM ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS by Altomani & Sons: from the bust depicting the Marquis Carlo Andrea Ignazio Ginori, based on the model of Gaspare Bruschi, an unpublished and unique work that portrays the founder of the famous Ginori porcelain factory, the only known bust that portrays him in life, to the splendid Capodimonte manufactures such as the “liquor bottle” from 1757 1763; Andrea and Giovanni della Robbia in the amazing “Madonna with Child between four cherubs and the Holy Spirit’s dove” and…(last but not least) the great GUIDO RENI in “Landscape with playing CHERUBS”!

These are just some examples of the great masterpieces that characterize Altomani & Sons… waiting to reveal which great works it will give us at Modenantiquaria 2024!

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The Orsi gallery is in the prestigious fashion district, inside an 18th-century building.
With over fifty years of experience, it has stood out for its reliability and professionalism, dealing with ancient art works of exceptional quality.

The gallery is specialized in ancient paintings, especially Italian ones, in sculptures and art objects from the 14th to the 18th century and has become a point of reference for private collectors, art dealers, curators, auction house experts and art lovers. art from all over the world.

The gallery takes part to the most prestigious exhibitions and art fairs in Europe and overseas such as TEFAF Maastricht and TEFAF New York, at the International Antiques Bienniale in Florence, Modenantiquaria and Flashback in Turin.

Galleria Orsi has supported numerous museum institutions for years, loans works and finances the publication of volumes, as well as drawing up its own catalogues relating to studies carried out on specific works and artists.

The gallery is also involved in direct sponsorship of cultural associations, public institutions, and restoration projects.

WHAT WILL THE CARLO ORSI GALLERY RESERVE US AT MODENANTIQUARIA 2024?
STAY TUNED… PRESTIGIOUS MASTERPIECES THAT HAVE MADE HISTORY are coming soon!

In 1998 Paolo Antonacci opened his gallery in Rome.

Coming from a long tradition of Roman antiques dealers, he worked for over twenty years in the prestigious galleries of Rome and London belonging to his father Giuseppe, an excellent, well-known international antiques dealer.

Paolo Antonacci’s interests in the artistic field have always been the research, valorisation and study of artists and paintings that portray, from the second half of the 18th century to the beginning of the 20th century, Rome, its countryside, Italian landscape painting in general and the various aspects of the so-called “Grand Tour”.

Particular attention was also paid to artists of the Symbolist era, marble sculptures and works on paper produced in the 19th century.

Over the years, the gallery has contributed with themed exhibitions to the knowledge and diffusion of photographers of the second half of the 19th century, of the so-called “Greek Coffee Group“, a sector still little known in Italy.
Since 1998 the gallery has organized annual exhibitions dedicated to various aspects of art in Rome in the 19th century. Among these, the Roman Carnival (2001), Danish painters in Rome in the 19th century (2004), Luigi Ademollo (2006), Alessandro Poma (2009), Panoramas of 19th century Rome (2010), Engravings by Luigi Rossini (2012) and the Jørgen Birkedal Hartmann Collection with masterpieces by Danish painters in Rome in the 19th century.

The latest publication of the catalog Drawings of Roman Architecture by Auguste-Théophile Quantinet (Paris, 1795-1867).

Paolo Antonacci has participated in the most important Italian and foreign antiques exhibitions such as the Biennale in Florence at Palazzo Corsini, the Art Biennale in Rome at Palazzo Venezia, the Masterpiece in London, the Highlights in Monaco, the Master Drawings Week in New York and obviously many editions of MODENANTIQUARIA.

In recent years there have been numerous requests for loans of the gallery’s works, for shows and exhibitions, from important institutions, such as: the National Institute for Graphics of Palazzo Poli, the Museo del Corso, the Modern National Art Gallery, the Vittoriano Complex, the Vatican Historical Museum, the Castel Sant’Angelo, the Braschi Palace, the Napoleonic Museum, Rome, the Municipality of Rome, the MART of Rovereto, the Ducal Palace of Genoa, the Milzetti Palace of Faenza.

In the 2024 Edition of Modenantiquaria PAOLO ANTONACCI WILL AMAZE YOU WITH THE QUALITY AND PRESTIGE OF THE WORKS ON EXHIBITION…STAY TUNED!

Domus Petra takes up the classic red tones of the homes of Pompeii and in addition to having internal spaces dedicated to the living and sleeping areas, it has large outdoor areas, from the vegetable garden to the space for preparing food, from the water tank to the relax area.

Everything turns around the Agora, the true fulcrum of domestic conviviality, a place to meet and receive.

Domus Petra is made up with materials of great architectural value and furnished, inside and outside, with contemporary objects designed by the greatest international designers.

Domus Petra: a place where you can feel at home, find peacefulness by giving a new value to time and beauty.

stay tuned…

Dario Ghio has been operating in the precious antiques sector since 1974. Strengthened by experience gained over years of work and research, he takes part to the most important and qualified antiques salons. His business, based in the center of Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco, specializes in antique European silverware and collectibles chosen and displayed with care and expertise. He is member of SNA, AAI and FIMA.

We present some amazing masterpieces:
The silver watch depicting ATLAS holding the celestial sphere, a precious watch by ALEXIS FALIZE (Liège 1811 – Paris 1898) from around 1860.
Atlas supports the celestial vault entirely engraved with constellations and signs of the Zodiac and applied golden stars.
Roman numerals, mechanical escapement movement with chime on every hour and half hour. Base in red marble modelled in the shape of a rock. Hallmarks of the master goldsmith Alexis Falize in use in Paris from 1841 to 1863.

And a second Masterpiece by EUGENIO AVOLIO, NAPLES circa 1900 in “Casket in gilded silver and malachite inserts, rich decoration in sixteenth-century style, with sculptural figures, festoons of fruit and foliated Greeks, with feral paw feet”

Dario Ghio awaits you at Modenantiquaria 2024 to enchant and seduce you with his timeless masterpieces of absolute beauty!

The Attilio Cecchetto gallery is located in a historic eighteenth-century villa, right where Carlo Scarpa designed his most grandiose architecture.

The splendid elegant building, a treasure chest of notes, studies and a small table signed by the great architect, constitutes an important stop on the Architecture Route, the tourist itinerary that reveals historical moments, religious buildings and enchanting villages that dot the Treviso area, giving life to a precious artistic and cultural heritage.

Attilio Cecchetto has been part of the Italian Antique Dealers Association for a long time.
Lover of beauty and elegance, he realized his professional inclination in 18th century Venetian painting and furnishings.

The 18th century was the last great season of flowering of the arts in Venice. A season of great complexity and value, of excellence in the fields of painting, sculpture and decorative arts. From its beginning, the eighteenth century showed itself, in fact, as a century of enormous vitality and great changes, in the language of art, in the history of ideas and techniques, in social life. Artists such as Tiepolo, Carriera, Longhi, Guardi, Tiziano and Canaletto acted as protagonists in this “precious century” symbol of extreme charm and style!

“Domus Petra” by Giulio Cappellini is a true hybridization between indoor and outdoor in the city.

The installation that will be the queen of Petra 2024 is an exploration of the desire for greenery of those who live in the city, without a solution of continuity between inside and outside where design and architecture dialogue with landscaping and history.

A hybridization project between indoor and outdoor in private spaces, exploring the desire for greenery of those who live in the city through objects and furnishings – ancient and contemporary – that speak of nature, without solutions of continuity between interior and exterior where design and architecture dialogue with landscape and history.

“Domus Petra – explains Giulio Cappellini – is the contemporary interpretation of the Domus Pompeian, in which internal and external spaces create a unique environment in which to live.

This concept is more relevant than ever today: both in homes and in hospitality venues it is increasingly difficult to create a limit between inside and outside, between private environments and spaces for receiving guests.

The terrace, the garden, the pergola have taken on the same dignity as the main rooms of the house.

to be continued… stay connected for more details!

A point of reference for private and institutional collecting since 1950, Verdini Antiques specializes in “MICROMOSAICS”, HIGH PERIOD FURNITURE and pictorial works by LANDSCAPE ARTISTS from Lazio Region.

Thanks to a deep knowledge of history that combines perfectly with instinct and intuition typical only of those who grew up in an environment steeped in art and archaeology, Verdini Antichità is now at the top of the charts!!

Goffredo Verdini, a great lover of fine period furnishings, began trading in the antiques sector in the early 1950s, making his way in the international scene.

In 1956 he opened the first gallery in Rome, soon involving his son Costantino who, thanks to his intuition and the experience gained alongside his father, has managed the business individually since 1965, expanding the areas of expertise to a broader concept of antiques…

With over fifty years of experience in the trade of Italian micro mosaics and prestigious antique furniture, the Verdini family’s interest extends to modern paintings, sculpture and furnishing objects.

Which masterpieces will Verdini Antiques bring to Modenantiquaria?
STAY TUNED…

In the heart of Bologna, one of the most beautiful and ancient cities in Italy, in via Dal Luzzo, in the antique dealers’ district, a few tens of meters from the Due Torri, there is Reve Art, an art gallery directed by Clara Santini and Andrea Lovato.
REVE ARTE GALLERY was born from the profound passion and knowledge of Venetian art, captured in all its facets, from painting to sculpture, from cabinet-making to the art of lacquer.

The selection made by the gallery introduces a historical-artistic itinerary, which from the Renaissance arrives to the 1950s, when the revolutionary synthesis of form and colour, expressed by the current of Venetian Spatialism movement, sets the seal on the changing, yet univocal, image of lagoon civilization.
In the photo: “DOMINANT THOUGHT” and “MORO” by Bottega Veneziana which are just two of the truly charming works that Reve Art boasts in its collection.
STAY TUNED…to find out what Reve Art has in store for us: which masterpieces will it bring to Modenantiquaria?

With this precious statement, the CEO of ModenaFiere, Marco Momoli, with Francesca Moratti, manager of the Exhibition, and Pietro Cantore, Treasurer of AAI and President of the Association of Antique Dealers of Modena, wishes an enchanting Christmas to all the Protagonists of the 2024 Edition, whom we thank below and to the public who has followed us for years!

Merry Christmas

Heartfelt thanks to the gallery owners who make it possible to give our public an edition of true excellence every year.

Lorenzo Garbieri
Holy family
oil on copper, cm 26×21,5
Cantore Galleria Antiquaria

Giglio Pasquale & C. S.a.s. was founded in 1986, better known as Antichità Giglio, specialized in ancient and 19th century paintings, modern and contemporary art, antique furniture, sculptures, silverware, chandeliers, oriental art, furnishings, and design.
Prestigious and impressive the artworks of Antichità Giglio, registered with the Italian Antique Dealers Association and FIMA.

From the prestigious French sculptures of the 18th century such as the “Bust of Madame de Pompadour” to Gio Ponti with the Richard Ginori Manufactures and Enrico Baj, a great anarchist and great artist of the 20th century who signed the manifesto “Against style” in 1957 in which he stated wanting to radically contrast the Academy – imitator of models – in favor of an art that creates unique and unrepeatable works.

ENRICO BAJ. Upholsterers or painters: you must choose. Painters of an ever new and unrepeatable division, for whom the canvas is each time the changing scene of an unpredictable “comedy of art”. We affirm the unrepeatability of the work of art: and that its essence presents itself as a modifying presence in a way that no longer requires celebratory representations but presence.”

In the photo MADAME POMPADOUR AND THE WORK OF ENRICO BAJ from 1973 which is not only testimony to Baj’s passion for art, expressed through multi-material and polychromatic collages, but is also a symbol of his anarchism and his attention towards the social and contemporary aspects of contemporaneity. Only a year earlier he had created the Funeral of the anarchist Pinelli, a large canvas in which the references to Pablo Picasso’s Guernica can be clearly seen.

French sculptor of the late 18th century
“Bust of Madame de Pompadour”
marble sculpture

Gio Ponti
‘L’edile’ Majolica jar
1924 ca.
(Milan, 1891 – Milan, 1979)

Orientalism indicates a trend, a taste in art that wants to represent and take up aspects of Middle Eastern and Asian culture.
It is not a real movement because it does not characterize a particular style, but rather the choice of themes and iconography.
Artists belonging to different currents, such as impressionists, romantics and others have produced works attributable to this particular current.

Orientalism was born from admiration for the civilizations of the Mediterranean, the Arabian Peninsula and central-southern Asia. The interest arises from the rediscovery of these places during the Napoleonic expedition of 1798 to Egypt, in which many experts were involved, including draftsmen, archaeologists, explorers and scientists who documented aspects of Asian culture and then spread them in Europe.

The interest in this mysterious world began to grow considerably in the second half of the 19th century, fuelled by Champollion’s deciphering of the hieroglyphs and the explorers’ descriptions.

The themes of the works are the colorful bazaars, the alleys and squares of the cities teeming with vendors, the desert with caravans and camels, the ruins of ancient monuments, mosques and the rites of Islam.

Of great importance in orientalist works is the figure of the WOMAN depicted inside the Harem, the oriental gynaeceum that has always fascinated the West.

Mysterious female figures, in sensual or provocative poses, taking care of their bodies or while dancing, or in moments of rest.

We find the fascinating ODALISKS, the environments of the harem, the hammam or Turkish bath richly decorated and characterized by very precious fabrics.

The charm of distant lands, of ONE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS… WAITS YOU AT MODENANTIQUARIA 2024, FROM 10 TO 18 FEBRUARY!

Tornabuoni Arte was born in 1981 in Florence in via Tornabuoni, thanks to Roberto Casamonti‘s passion for art; passion inherited from his father, collector of 20th century Italian art. Over the years the gallery, in addition to the main headquarters in Lungarno Cellini in Florence, inaugurated the exhibition venues in Milan (1995), Forte dei Marmi (2004), Tornabuoni Arte Antica (2006), Rome (2023) in addition to the foreign locations of Crans Montana in Switzerland (1993), Paris (2009), London (2015).

Annually Tornabuoni organizes an exhibition with the aim of presenting a selection of great international artists of the 20th century (such as Christo, Jean Dubuffet, Hans Hartung, Wifredo Lam, Matta, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, Serge Poliakoff, Andy Warhol) together with the main historicized artists of the Italian artistic reality of the first and second 20th century (among which we remember: Giacomo Balla, Alighiero Boetti, Alberto Burri, Enrico Castellani, Mario Ceroli, Giorgio de Chirico, Piero Dorazio, Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Marino Marini, Giorgio Morandi, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Paolo Scheggi).

“Art has no age” is the motto with which, in 2006, Tornabuoni Arte’s adventure in the field of antiques began.

In the main headquarters of Tornabuoni Arte-Arte Antica, on the ground floor of the prestigious 14th century building overlooking Via Maggio, a street which for decades has now become the showcase for ancient art in Florence, a rich collection of pieces from various eras and provenances, both paintings and sculptures and furnishings, from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.
Renaissance, Mannerism, Neoclassicism, Baroque are the pillars of Tornabuoni Arte.

In the photo one of the precious masterpieces of IMOLENSIS, active in Florence around the mid-16th century, the Holy Family with St. John and Michelangelo in the guise of St. Joseph.

The face of Saint Joseph appears immediately recognizable in that of the great Michelangelo Buonarroti, represented here in his maturity. The portrait is characterized by a certain realism and apparently not attributable to an already existing depiction. It could also be the result, according to Alessandro Nesi, author of the study on the painting we are presenting, of the painter’s direct knowledge of Michelangelo. The latter was cleverly identified by the scholar in that “Imolensis” who in 1546 thus signed, with the place of origin, another Holy Family now in the Pushkin Museum in Moscow.

“This is our motto; the belief that inspires our choices and our proposals.
Each work is a story to tell; a dialogue that crosses time.
A trace of time to be preserved and listened to… as well as looked at”.
by Maurizio Nobile Fine Art

Maurizio Nobile: “In 1979 I left for Rome; I had already been to Paris twice in 75 and 76 and it was love at first sight. I was very excited at the thought of seeing the capital too; being June I decided to stop for a few months. I found a job in a vintage shop in Via delle Carrozze, practically in Piazza di Spagna. At the time, Via del Babuino and its surroundings were crowded with antique shops, and it was at that moment that I decided, in my boyish mind, what my future and my destiny would be: to chase beauty.
An exciting adventure began at that moment.

In 1987 I opened my first very small shop in the historic center of Bologna and in 1989 in Milan, but my goal was Paris, the ville lumiere, the city which, together with Rome, had inspired me, renewing its ability to surprise me with every return. all its beauty.
It was only in 2010 that I managed to land in Paris together with Davide Trevisani, still director of my gallery.
In these 40 long years I have received the most from my work and above all from my passion without ever stopping learning, putting myself on the line, being able to rejoice in the exceptional nature of certain findings and discoveries that I have been lucky enough to make as was the case with magnificent Sant’Andrea in front of which I am; an extraordinary work by Nicolas Tournier.”
I love my job …”

Attilio Luigi Ametta: “How did my passion for art begin? I think I have always been enchanted by Beauty. As a child I used to look at old books where the Parthenon and many other vestiges of the past were depicted. I was so impressed by such a beauty!
In 2000 I decided to move to Bologna from Torremaggiore, the small town in the Foggia area where I grew up, to enroll in the faculty of Biology. It was the cultured Bologna that aroused new stimuli in me.
Despite the chosen course of study, I did not fail to visit museums, churches, and historic buildings.
In 2013 I met Maurizio Nobile. I found myself catapulted into a world that was new to me: that of antiques.
Maurizio immediately encouraged me to follow him in his work, having perceived in me the passion for art. So, in 2020 I became a member of the gallery and a year later we opened the Milan branch, located in the prestigious Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, in the heart of the fashion quadrilateral. Here I came into contact with contemporary art, which I began to deal with by following the work of established and non-established artists linked to the figurative tradition. I started interacting with them, organizing exhibitions dedicated to them and projects that will develop over time.”
Which masterpieces will Maurizio Nobile Fine Art exhibit at Modenantiquaria 2024?
What emotions will it be able to give you?
Stay tuned!

Copetti Antiquari was founded in 1982 by Giorgio Copetti, specialized in sculpture and painting from the Veneto-Austrian area.

Together with his son Ernesto, who moved to Cividale del Friuli, they specialize in modern and contemporary art with particular attention to SCULPTURE.
BRAIDA COPETTI born in 2018: a park, now beautiful and inspiring, of 15,000 square meters in the municipality of Premariacco, a few kilometers from Udine, where important sculptures by artists of the last and contemporary century are exhibited.

A true union between art and nature, an important open-air museum!

The precious sculptures by Mirko Balsaldella, Lucian Ceschia, Nane Zavagno, Angelo Brugnera, Gianpietro Carlesso, Giacomo Manzù, Kim Seung Hwan, Alik Cavaliere are on display.

Felice Giani, Giovanni Antonio Guardi, Paolo Troubetzkoy and Anselmo Bucci, Achille Funi and the great Renato Guttuso: powerful artistic contamination in Studiolo Fine Art at Modenantiquaria 2024!

Studiolo is now a historic and well-established art gallery in Milan that stands out in the artistic panorama for being among the first in Italy to offer a surprisingly harmonious contamination between ancient paintings and 20th century paintings and sculptures, giving life to an offer from unique and unmistakable character.

The only fil rouge is the unconditional search for Quality, the Taste for Design and for the details that make each piece unique.

Stefano and Guido Cribiori work every day to make the Studiolo a place where, beyond any definition and artistic category, the pleasure of beautiful things is maximized. Guiding their guests on a path where Aesthetics and Artistic Value are combined with passion and insight.

This is how a painting or sculpture takes on new life and becomes contemporary again through its placement in modern environments.

Studiolo by Stefano and Guido Cribiori awaits you at Modenantiquaria to amaze and inebriate you with art and emotion!

From the prestigious Palazzo Solieri, located between the Palazzo Ducale and the Cathedral of Modena, the “historic” protagonist of Modenantiquaria: CANTORE GALLERIA ANTIQUARIA

For two decades Pietro Cantore, the Director of the Gallery, has been concentrating on ancient painting from the 14th to the 18th century, with particular attention to the Emilian one.

The Gallery is the headquarter of the “Amici delle Gallerie Estensi” Association of which Pietro Cantore is the founder as well as being Treasurer of the Italian Antique Dealers Association and President of the Modena Antique Dealers Association.

After 10 years of experience in New York, he continues to follow the international market!

Gaetano Gandolfi, Annibale Carracci, Elisabetta Sirani, Giacomo Ceruti known as Pitochetto, Giovanni Lanfranchi: these are just some of the magnificent names in the History of Art that characterize Cantore Galleria Antiquaria.

Mirco Cattai is a gallery owner and lover of ancient oriental carpets from the Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Anatolia and north-western Persia. His research, which began in 1992 with the first gallery in the center of Milan, concerns rare specimens, where aesthetic beauty combines with the state of conservation and the era.

An important exhibition organized by Cattai is the one dedicated to Ottoman carpets, repeated several times with extraordinary specimens from the 16th-19th centuries.

Another exhibition was dedicated to fascinating East Turkestan carpets with examples from the “Silk Road Oases” of the early 19th century. The related catalogues are a great resource for scholars and carpet lovers.

Mirco Cattai has contributed to creating several important collections for his clients, in Italy and abroad and his Gallery in via Manzoni, 12 in Milan, adjacent to the Poldi Pezzoli Museum, has become a point of reference for connoisseurs of oriental carpets.

In addition to carpets, he also specializes in very old Asian art objects, Chinese sculptures from the Han, Tang and even Gandhara periods; every spring, on the occasion of Milan Asian Art, the Cattai Gallery organizes an interesting, themed exhibition.

The Fondantico Gallery was founded in 1991 in Galleria Cavour, a prestigious location in Bologna, with a very specific objective: the international search for unpublished paintings, but with certain attribution. Thus, Tiziana Sassoli, the owner of the gallery, start a frenetic search that led her to a fierce and demanding work which soon, however, gave her well-deserved recognition from critics, private collectors and public authorities such as museums, foundations and banks.

Therefore, the need for a larger exhibition space arose and in 2011 Fondantico moved to Via de’ Pepoli 6/e to the prestigious Pepoli Bentivoglio palace, in the beating heart of Bologna.

Ongoing now and until December 20th is the exhibition “Revelations of art. Paintings and drawings from the 16th to the 18th century.”

Stay tuned…to discover the precious masterpieces that Fondantico will exhibit in Modena!

The 19th century is the strong point of Enrico Gallerie d’Arte!

The gallery was founded in 1972 in Alassio by Giuliana and Franco Enrico. In 1994 it was enriched with the prestigious headquarters in the sixteenth-century street of Genoa, via Garibaldi, full of famous museums and noble palaces: in addition to international artists, great attention is given to the Ligurian painters of the nineteenth and early Twentieth century.

In 1995 the venue in Milan was opened in the central Via Senato, with great exhibitions open to the public!!!

Now Angelo and Serafino Enrico are the directors of the Galleries. In addition to an international experience in the art market they have refined their knowledge thanks to an enormous library specialized in 19th century paintings, continuously updated, a very precious heritage of the Gallery.

Important exhibitions have distinguished the Gallery, starting from those dedicated to the Lombard Scapigliatura, to the Venetian School, to the Ligurian, Piedmontese, Neapolitan and Sicilian ones, without neglecting the great international masters such as Giovanni Boldini, De Nittis and Zandomeneghi, the Tuscan MACCHIAIOLI, as well as the great schools of the Italian DIVISIONIST MASTERS.
The latest exhibitions entitled “NATURE and HUNTING in 19th century European Painting” are very original, created in the wake of the “SPORTING ART” of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, which combines the passion for hunting, nature and sport together with the passion for painters of artistic value and historical, represented in the MAJOR EUROPEAN MODERN ART MUSEUMS.

What does Enrico Gallerie d’Arte have in store for us in Modena?
Which engaging exhibition and which international artists will we admire from 10 to 18 February?

Stay Tuned for upcoming news!

FINE OLD MASTERS SINCE 1914!

Cesare Lampronti represents the third generation of an established family of art dealers and boasts over 50 years’ experience on the international art market.

The gallery, founded in 1914, is specialized in Italian Old Master Paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries, with particular attention to the selection of paintings, landscapes and still lives ranging from Caravaggio to Canaletto and their followers.

In January 2013, a new exhibition space opened on Duke Street, St James’s, offering a window on Italian art and culture at the heart of London.

The Gallery collaborates with many international museums both in terms of research and dialogue on individual artists and in lending their works for exhibitions.

In 2019 the Royal Palace of Caserta hosted a monographic exhibition dedicated to the Lampronti Gallery collection entitled “From Artemisia to Hackert. The collection of an antique dealer”.

Petra is renewed, in a new format dedicated to the outdoors, which combines the past and the present, the ancient and the modern, the classic and the contemporary, between city and countryside.
Petra becomes the exhibition dedicated to landscape design between classic and contemporary.

The Project is able to coordinate and harmonize three dimensions: the designer’s centimeter, the architect’s meter, the landscape designer’s kilometer.
Too often the three disciplines do not dialogue, generating visual, social and content discontinuities that devalue the urban and extra-urban territory, in particular the Italian one so rich in tangible and intangible values. And they waste resources.

Visitors will find innovative and particular proposals that will enhance the importance of the project and the design of the external areas, understood as coordination and harmonization of the different elements – products and services – to create balance and beauty, and therefore well-being and sustainability.

The new concept will also be presented through two installations designed by architects/landscape architects and nurserymen. Two thematic areas where you can build an encounter between landscape, design, antique art, external architecture, and nature to experience the outdoors in a new way.

The “Friends of the Landscape” committee was established with the aim of coordinating cultural activities within Petra.

The third edition of “SCULPTURA. Italian Masterpieces from the 13th to the 20th century” is coming soon, with the support of the Italian Antique Dealers Association.

After last year’s success, SCULPTURA, Italian Masterpieces from the 13th to the 20th Century, consolidates its objective of being an unmissable annual event for collectors and art lovers of the sector and reaches its third edition. Modenantiquaria, an event of reference and excellence for High Antiques, is the perfect context for a project that was missing, where the exceptional awakening of interest towards sculpture will not be disappointed. Art collectors, designers and experts in search of a unique piece have the opportunity here to come face to face with the excellence of tradition, great authors and the most innovative proposals.

Soon the 2024 Protagonists and their Masterpieces!

Stay Tuned!

“From 10 to 18 February 2024, ModenaFiere renews the appointment with Modenantiquaria, the international event dedicated to fine antiques, sponsored by the AAI and FIMA – announces MARCO MOMOLI, CEO of ModenaFiere – with the aim of further improving the excellent result of last year, that is, to offer the public and collectors an Edition of true excellence guaranteed by the prestige of the participating galleries and by the Vetting committee, made up of internationally accredited art historians who examine all the objects on display before of the opening of the exhibition”.

Modenantiquaria is the reference event for those seeking the excellence of high-quality antiques; a “unique place” where collectors, art lovers and dealers meet in search of precious masterpieces.
The exhibition, now in its XXXVII edition, is the perfect combination of art, passion, and business as well as an exemplary showcase for the most famous galleries in the sector which often exhibit unpublished works.

SOON THE PROTAGONISTS OF THIS NEW 2024 EDITION!!!
STAY TUNED!

Modenantiquaria: The Beauty of History, the Prestige of Tradition

GALLO FINE ART and “The Four Seasons” by Bertos in Carrara marble for Sculptura 2023!

Sculptor and founder. Of Venetian origins, he worked in Rome at the end of the XVII century and in Venice at the beginning of the XVIII century. Known for a brief memory of Zani Bertos, he is the creator of sculptural groups in marble that take your breath away for their dynamism and sensory involvement.

Bertos’ shapes and schemes are very reminiscent of those of Giambologna due to the tormented and nervous manner that involves all the senses of those who admire his marbles. The works are presented to the viewer as bizarre pyramidal compositions closed within a decorative line, with figures with serpentine shapes, in acrobatic poses, imitating in this the virtuosity of the Flemish and German ivorists of the seventeenth century.

Francesco Bertos
(1678 -1741)
The Four Seasons
Carrara marble, cm 77 x 56 x 40

For all animal lovers: Brun Fine Art will exhibit exceptional pieces by Sirio Tofanari, “Prince of Animalier movement”, in the II Edition of Sculptura, Italian Masterpieces from the XIII to the XX century” at ModenaFiere.

It was precisely the king Umberto of Savoy, after buying one of his bronze gazelles, who launched Tofanari as an animalier artist!

“Animals don’t pose on command”, explained the artist, “with them you need to know how to find the moment and know how to exploit it all, assimilate it, distil it. And then you must please the animals: I know what it means to spend hours in front of the subjects without stealing their image with technological means, but instead allowing them to gradually give us their soul”. And he added jokingly “the artist is like the pig, good after death”. But a different fate occurs him. A Florentine, born in 1886, he devoted himself to the sculpture of animals, becoming famous in Europe and Latin America as “the prince of animal lovers”. He died in Milan in 1969.

Ugo Ojetti, his great friend, admired “the delicate patient work almost like a goldsmith, first on the wax to be entrusted to the founder, then on the bronze to be chiselled and patinated”. And Professor Antonio Storelli wrote that «the art of Sirio Tofanari, the one for which he was and is recognized and appreciated, was that of being able to represent, even in the immobility of the bronze material, “alive” animals, with skins vibrant with light and matter».

We await you at Modenantiquaria!

Sirio Tofanari, bronze Sculpture of a Dog
Signed on the base: Sirio Tofanari, dated on the base: 1924 Firenze, Bronze
Fond. Tortolini Firenze, 50 x 42 x 33 cm

Petra, the “indoor garden” of Modenantiquaria, presents itself in a new guise: no less than 3,000 square meters of greenery designed by the best Italian nurserymen, a true dialogue between ancient times and nature. Here there are hundreds of suggestions for those who have an outdoor space or a park and are looking for curious and original furnishings.

Imposing statues, terracotta amphorae, wrought iron gates, ancient flower vases, fountains and marble basins, but also entire greenhouses and winter gardens. All unique pieces, which can be admired in Petra, the Modenantiquaria indoor garden, from 10 to 19 February at ModenaFiere: an entire “green” pavilion that offers a totally different setting from that of a classic fair. Here visitors find antiques for outdoors, to enrich the green areas of prestigious homes, but not only.

Petra offers solutions of any type, taste, and size to those who want to furnish, design or renovate a garden, a farmhouse or a second home. The most important galleries offer visitors customized exterior design solutions, capable of transforming any space into a unique and original environment. Among works, ideas and materials of the best quality, anyone here can shape their own space in their own image and likeness.

In Petra all the pieces are unique and can provide original ideas for re-reading the spaces of the house and reinterpreting them in a creative way, as well as precious ideas for interior design, even for the most modern: a column designed for the garden can become an original and impactful piece if placed in the living room.

Great novelty 2023: with the ticket (also free) of Modenantiquaria you can admire the great exhibition of Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, ‘Restless art. The urgency of creation’, at a reduced price!!!

By keeping the Modenantiquaria ticket (even a free one), you can obtain a reduced ticket for “Restless art. The urgency of creation”, at Palazzo Magnani in Reggio Emilia until 12 March, the thematic exhibition that explores, along the thin red line of history, the more than ever topical theme of identity.

One hundred and forty works including paintings, sculptures, drawings, graphics, artist’s books, fifty-seven artists, protagonists of the twentieth century and of today’s panorama, in dialogue with selected authors of Italian and international art brut and with authors whose unpublished works come from the San Lazzaro’s Archive in Reggio Emilia, today one of the largest collections of this type in Europe.

From Paul Klee, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet to Hans Hartung and Anselm Kiefer, from Antonio Ligabue to Maria Lai, Alighiero Boetti, Emilio Isgrò and Carla Accardi, the exhibition presents to the public “a restless art” born of personal and collective, of that expressive urgency of the artist and of the exploration of the infinite faces and expressions of human identity.

Just present the Modenantiquaria ticket (or the exhibitor pass) at the cash desk to obtain a reduction on the entrance ticket.

Modenantiquaria the Beauty of History, the Excellence of Tradition.

Stories of angels and deadly sins: Stefano Maria Legnani known as “Legnanino” and the superb work “Loth and his daughters” in Iotti Antichità.

The story of LOTH AND HIS DAUGHTERS, taken from the Book of Genesis, tells about Sodom and Gomorrah which with their sins had exceeded all limits and for this reason God had decided to destroy them with fire.

Loth, Abraham’s nephew, lived at the entrance of the city of Sodom and, being a just man, God had sent him two angels to inform him of the destruction of the city. Loth hosted the two beautiful and young Angels, but the corrupt sodomites asked to let the two foreigners out to abuse them.

To protect the angels, Loth proposed the two daughters in exchange, but the sodomites went wild and tried to break down the door when the angels intervened and blinded them. After trying to warn the inhabitants of Sodom of the danger, without being believed, the angels woke Lot at dawn and ordered him to leave the city with his family and not turn around to look.

God then brought brimstone and fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah and destroyed them.

Lot’s wife, despite being warned not to look back, did it anyway and thus turned into a pillar of salt. Lot and his daughters hid in a mountain cave in a deserted area. The daughters were worried that they could not procreate and one night they made their father drink wine and the eldest went to bed with him and he did not notice it. The older sister, after having committed incest, urged the younger sister to do the same. From these two incest two children were born: from the eldest daughter was born Moab, the father of the Moabites who still exist today; from the younger one the “Son of my people” came to the light. This is the father of the Ammonites who exist to this day.

The pleasures of life with Raffaello Pernici – Best Ceramics and the “triumph of Bacchus” (Turin Lenci manufacture)

How beautiful youth, who flees though!
Who wants to be happy, either:
of tomorrow there is no certainty.

Bacchus here with Ariadne, Burning for each others love,
Time plays tricks and slips away,
So happily they stay together
With these nymphs and other spirits
They are happy all the time.

The carnival song “Triumph of Bacchus and Ariadne” by Lorenzo de’ Medici, hymn to love and worldly pleasures including wine and food, celebrates the “triumph” of the god Bacchus and his wife Ariadne, while they lead a joyful parade on a chariot followed by other characters from classical mythology linked to their history. They are masterfully represented here in the work “triumph of Bacchus” by the Lenci manufacture. Undoubtedly the most important of the great Turin manufacture both in terms of size, plasticity and extreme rarity, being in fact the first model in the Lenci catalogue.

In the work, as narrated in mythology, we find Ariadne who became the bride of Bacchus after having collected her on the island of Nassau when she was abandoned by Theseus; the satyr Silenus, master of Bacchus in his youth, and Midas king of Phrygia. He finds Silenus when he gets lost drunk in the woods and brings him back to the god, obtaining from him the fatal gift of turning everything into gold and the satyrs and nymphs who participate in the joyful procession of Bacchus.

From the collection of the great Maria Callas a rare and prestigious Carrari in Galleria Enrico Lumina at Modenantiquaria 2023!

The Enrico Lumina Ancient Italian Paintings Gallery is bringing a painting of rare value to Modenantiquaria 2023, presented here in preview.

The “Holy Conversation” by Baldassarre Carrari, as well as for its undoubted quality of realization that led it to be notified and for the exceptional nature of the painter, boasts a very particular provenance.

It was in fact purchased by the current owner in 2007 at the Sotheby’s auction in Milan in which more than 300 lots that belonged to Maria Callas and then kept by the family of her husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, were sold.

The story between the two is known and certainly not idyllic. Meneghini was a wealthy entrepreneur who loved the life of Veronese high society and lived as a golden bachelor in a luxurious hotel. He met Maria Callas in 1947, when she was still at the dawn of her career, and he was enraptured to the point of proposing the so-called “six-month deal”: the time in which he would keep her to allow her to become successful.

The two, despite the enormous age difference (almost thirty years) fell in love, and married two years later, when Callas’s career was already skyrocketing.
However, the marriage was short-lived: about ten years later, Maria met her great and tormented love of life, Aristotle Onassis, and separated from Meneghini.
However, a strange twist of fate wanted him, now eighty-two years old, to become the heir of his wife, who died under mysterious circumstances, at the age of only 53, thus also acquiring her entire and prestigious collection of works of art.

BALDASSARRE CARRARI
Forlì 1460 – Ravenna 1516
Conversation
Oil on canvas, cm 103×90

Extraordinary 18th century game table in Giusti Antichità at Modenantiquaria 2023!

The game table is a piece of furniture, usually of fine workmanship, which has now disappeared in modern homes, if not for a purely decorative function.

Nevertheless, since the Middle Ages it has entertained generations of nobles and wealthy merchants, experiencing various evolutions over the centuries and a real golden age in the courts of the 18th century.

Gambling has always been a hobby widely practiced by the wealthier social classes. However, before the reign of Louis XIV, no effective production of tables for it had been defined. Usually, any table was taken, a velvet or linen drape was placed over it, and an evening of endless games of cards or checkers began.

It was in the eighteenth century that the table acquired a specific function based on its use, thanks to the rumoured gambling addiction of the French court.
The best craftsmen of the time then began to design highly specialized tables, specially designed for the most popular games: chess, checkers, the much-loved tric-trac, etc., thus leaving us with extremely refined and often very elaborate, modular, or even equipped with drawers and secret compartments.

The extraordinary game table, presented to Modenantiquaria 2023 by Giusti Antichità and here in preview, with its elegant book-like opening and a curious small drawer inserted in the band, is a splendid example.

Game table
Modena first half of the century XVIII
75 x 85 x 42.5 cm

Modenantiquaria 2023 is enriched by an important relationship with Toto Bergamo Rossi, Venetian Heritage Director, who promotes and preserves the Venetian artistic heritage.

We are grateful and honoured to be able to announce this important collaboration with an undisputed protagonist of the art scene by quoting his own words: “I am happy to be able to involve as many people as possible in accessing and purchasing “Beauty”… so that everyone pays more attention to our history and therefore to the paintings and furnishings that are part of our DNA. I have been a restorer for many years, I have written important volumes dedicated to Venetian art and now I manage the Venetian Heritage Foundation and through important funding I deal with the restoration and protection of the artistic heritage of the Serenissima, the Dalmatian coast up to Greece … we take care of important exhibitions in Venetian palaces, for example, the large Ca’ d’Oro project is now underway. From the friendship with many exhibitors who have made the history of Modenantiquaria, this important collaboration and the idea of promoting Modenantiquaria were born” – these are the words of Toto Bergamo Rossi, Director of Venetian Heritage.

THE PASSION OF COLLECTING. Modena and the Estensi with Toto Bergamo Rossi, Venetian Heritage Director. Alessandra Di Castro, Vice President of the Italian Antique Dealers Association (AAI).
Pietro Cantore, Treasurer of the Italian Antiques Dealers Association (AAI) and President of the Modena Antiques Dealers Association. Moderator Leonardo Piccinini.

“SCULPTURA” II Edition! GREAT PREVIEW 2023.
Chivalric Virtue and Honour: Alessandra Di Castro and the Knight of Malta by Jean-Baptiste Boudard.

The prestigious Alessandra Di Castro Gallery presents, in preview, for the II Edition of “SCULPTURA. Italian Masterpieces from the 13th to the 20th Century.” the extraordinary “Bust of a Knight of Malta” by Jean-Baptiste Boudard.

Who are the Knights of Malta really? The Knights of St. John, the Knights Hospitaller or the Knights of Malta are the names attributed to this order founded in Jerusalem which dates to the 11th century and is still active today. The order was founded in 1050 by a group of men who decided to build a hospital to assist the pilgrims who arrived every year in the Holy Land.

After having obtained the consent of the Pope, it began to grow and expand; hospitals were founded in Rhodes and in other cities, and the knights distinguished themselves as a hierarchical, military and welfare order.
Nowadays the Knights of Malta are recognized in 110 countries as a chivalric order, indeed we can really define it as a religious order dependent on the Holy See with charitable and humanitarian purposes.

The members of the Order can be defined as Catholic gentlemen animated by altruistic nobility of mind and behaviour. All knights respond to the condition established in ancient times for the conferment of noble titles: having distinguished themselves for virtues. The chivalric character of the Order still has great moral value today because it denotes the spirit of service, self-denial and discipline that animates the knights. In Italy there are three Grand Priories of the Knights of Malta (Lombardy and Venice, Rome, Naples, and Sicily) which bring together all the members of the Order.

The beautiful marble bust of a Knight of Malta (as indicated by the eight-pointed cross on his chest), in wig, armor and cloak, which is immediately recognizable as a work of Franco-Italian eighteenth-century sculpture, will be presented in the II Edition of Sculptura at ModenaFiere. The art critic Andrea Bacchi specifies that ” Although there is no evidence to identify the person portrayed, based on a stylistic analysis and thanks also to a specific detail of immense importance using the method perfected by Giovanni Morelli, the sculpture is attributed to the French artist Jean-Baptiste Boudard.”

Boudard, an artist of French origins, is the author of great masterpieces dedicated to the sweetest figures of mythology, Bacchus, Ariadne, Zephyr, Apollo, Silenus and Egle…Immense masterpieces now located in the Garden of Palazzo Ducale in Parma. Indeed, in 1765 he became a citizen of Parma and was appointed first court sculptor and superintendent for the Duke of sculpture and ornamentation.

Jean-Baptiste Boudard
(Paris 1710 – Sala Baganza 1768)
Bust of a Knight of Malta
Marble, h. 83cm x 61 x 31

A seductive and unusual journey among the moonlight heirs of nineteenth-century Romanticism in REVE ART!

The Nocturne in 20th century art: this is the exhibition theme that will be proposed in this XXXVI edition of Modenantiquaria by Reve Art based on a project by Clara Santini. A seductive and unusual journey among the moonlight heirs of nineteenth-century Romanticism, the cascades of secessionist stars, the vibrant, yet brutal chromatic kaleidoscopes of Expressionism; from the forgetful atmospheres of Venice, cloaked in D’Annunzio’s misty decadent movement, up to the mysterious scenic cosmographies of the abstract art of the Fifties. Twenty paintings, all different, but equally illuminated by the shadow of a Hungarian memory. Clara Santini

FERRUCCIO SCATTOLA and “The fires in Venice” of 1929: Ferruccio Scattola’s painting is discreet and gentle, the light is soft and glides over everything. His works are made with a dreamy but very concrete naturalism. Scattola tells himself this: “After a few courses of study, I began to paint on my own, without guidance, remaining at first somewhat hesitant between entering the Academy or working with some master. I decided neither one thing nor the other and continued to study nature for myself. But nature, the study, and the love that I have dedicated to it, don’t really lead me to love too objective forms in art; on the contrary, I am convinced that the excellence of a work consists in translating the truth, through the sensitivity of the artist, into that elaborate and emotional form which is called style”.

Important works by Scattola are in the Gallery of Modern Art in Rome and precisely “Impressions of the market of Assisi”, “The farrier” and “The clays of Volterra”. “End of March” is in the Modern Art Gallery of Milan. Other works can be found in the Querini Stampalia Museum in Venice, in the Marangoni Museum in Udine, in the Revoltella Museum in Trieste, in Paris it is located “Night in San Gimignano”.

FERRUCCIO SCATTOLA
(Venice, 1873 – Rome, 1950)
The fires in Venice, 1929
Oil on canvas, cm. 69×78.5

Signed lower left.
On the back: Label of the Ministry of Education. General Directorate of Fine Arts documenting the painting’s participation in the 1929 Barcelona International Exhibition. The label bears the name and address of the artist, the title of the work, the price in pesetas. Exhibitions 20 May 1929 – 15 January 1930, Barcelona, International Exhibition

The poignant sweetness of a desperate love in Tornabuoni Arte- Arte Antica: GREAT PREVIEW 2023

The figure of Moses is known to all for the heroic deeds narrated in the exodus, first the division of the waters of the Nile.

Only a few, on the other hand, know the origins of Moses, starting with his name, which in turn has to do with the waters.

Born into a Jewish family under the dominion of the Pharaoh, Moses was a child of extraordinary beauty, so much so that his mother kept him hidden for three months before making the desperate decision to abandon him in the hope of giving him a better future. He then placed it in a basket and let the waters of the river decide its fate. Providence wanted the Pharaoh’s daughter, who went down to the river to bathe, to notice the child and finally decide to keep him and call him Moses, or “pulled out of the water“.

Giuseppe Mancinelli‘s work presented by Tornabuoni Arte – Arte Antica for the Modenantiquaria 2023 edition, here in preview, focuses precisely on the tragic moment of Moses’ abandonment, summarizing in bright colors and delicate brushstrokes, all the sweetness of the desperate hope of a mother forced to give up her beloved son.

Moses abandoned by his mother
Giuseppe Mancinelli
(Naples, 1813 – Castrocielo, 1875),
Oil on canvas, c. 181×255
Tornabuoni Arte – Arte Antica

Sacred affections and visual caresses: the Madonna by “Sassoferrato” in the Giamblanco Gallery at Modenantiquaria 2023!

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist, oil on canvas, 74 x 60 cm, Giovanni Battista Salvi known as Sassoferrato.

We report the words of the art critic Massimo Pulini who can exhaustively render the immense value of this work.
“Extreme delicacy of gestures makes the figures touch in a visual caress that disposes to languor. Three different spells and as many declinations of thoughts can be appreciated in this domestic scene of sacred affections. The astonished Mother is the one furthest from the present and perhaps she is already forwarded into the mystery that awaits her. Her lively Son seems to respond to our gaze, which comes from the outside and finally the coin-shaped pupil of the hermit boy finds the more satisfying contemplation in observing the cousin’s peaceful face. It all takes place in an interior, even if a slice of window, on the right side of the canvas, opens up to the vision of a landscape that declines towards diaphanous mountains on the horizon before meeting, in the sky, a stratified scale of clouds. Enclosed in a perimeter of precise design, each material is smooth and untouched, both the flesh tones, of three different pinks, and the compact fabrics like painted stucco, and the brown wall in the background which gently illuminates around the figures without the need to become a sunburst. It is precisely this volume, from stationary objects resting on a shelf, that gives a suspension to human action and divine time so that the convergence of those absences becomes something abstract, like a mental prayer. The expedient of never repeating the same interpretation of a subject finds a hidden spiritual reason in the almost mystical discipline of Sassoferrato. However, it should be noted that the oil on canvas editions found up to now, such as the one in the Fesh Museum in Ajaccio or the one passed through the Bertolami auctions on May 13, 2022, are the fruit of collaboration within the Master’s workshop, while only this example can currently be register among the autographs of limpid execution.

Gnomons and ancient sundials, breath-taking hand-painted frescoes in HISTORYA by IVAN CESCHIN Gallery for PETRA 2023! Great Preview!

Frescoes and decorations entirely handmade able of enrich internal and external environments to transform and enhance the spaces of the house.

Natural pigments, unrepeatable and personalized shapes that move along the blurred boundaries between design and craftsmanship, decoration and art, perfect for telling stories that combine tradition and modernity in a unique way, even in the contemporary home. Environments and spaces embellished by art and beauty improve the quality of life.

The frescoes entirely handmade with ancient techniques and natural pigments, sometimes embellished with gold leaf or Venetian stucco work for a touch of elegance and refinement, are inspired by the great masters of the past with the challenge of reinterpreting and adapting to the dynamism of our times.

Great protagonist in ROBERTAEBASTA Gallery.
DARTH VADER arrives from STAR WARS at Modenatiquaria 2023!!!

And who doesn’t know him? Once a Jedi Knight, Darth Vader was seduced by the dark side of the Force under the influence of Darth Sidous, and thus became one of the main perpetrators of the Jedi Purge, a set of actions undertaken by the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Sidious to eliminate the Jedi Order concurrent with the creation of the Galactic Empire in 19BBY which resulted in the near-total extinction of the Jedi.
He quickly became a very important figure within the Empire, acting as the right hand of the Emperor and trying to thwart the nascent Rebel Alliance. When Vader discovered the existence of his son Luke Skywalker, legendary Jedi and Hero of the Galaxy, he tried together with the Emperor to make him go to the dark side.
Instead, it was Luke who convinced his father to return to the light and to rebel against his master.

Star Wars – Life-size Darth Vader statue made in 1997 in a limited edition, numbered 418 of 500 pieces and licensed by Lucasfilm Ltd.
Michael Burnett Studios handcrafted each of these statues using reference photographs and actual molds, blueprints, photos, and visits to the Lucasfilm archives to exactly replicate the costume worn by David Prowse in The Empire Strikes Back.

Plastic, latex, glass fiber, with functioning lighting system, certificate of authenticity, dimensions 84 cm x 48 cm x 220 cm H

Fantasy and seduction in the “Attilio Cecchetto Antiquario” Gallery.

The “Architectural Capriccio” by Francesco Battaglioli in the Attilio Cecchetto Antiquario Gallery. The term ‘architectural capriccio’, or simply ‘capriccio’, refers to an unusual composition, of a non-religious, imaginative nature, sometimes enlivened by figures and characterized by architectural elements, inspired by real monuments. A seductive composition to say the least…. come and find out what it’s all about at Modenantiquaria 2023 in the Attilio Cecchetto Antiquario Gallery!

The capriccio was a great success among connoisseurs, especially the Grand Tour, for its evocative power of the lost world of antiquity which conveyed a picturesque vision of Italy. It offered artists the opportunity to work outside the canonical compositional rules and the constraints of specific commissions, thus being able to let their imagination free to create images that could seduce through the creation of fantastic architectures and countless phytoiatric and zoomorphic decorations.

Francesco Battaglioli
(Modena, 1717 circa – post 1796)
“Architectural Capriccio”
Oil on canvas, cm 158 x 82

Publication:
G. Sesiteri, Architectural capriccio in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Rome, 2015, vol. I, p. 47.

The revolution of Venetian landscape painting in the Galleria Arte Cesaro. Great Modenantiquaria 2023 preview!

Guglielmo Ciardi, student of Domenico Bresolin at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, in 1868, decided to portray, unlike the other painters of the time, a neglected and bare area of Venice, the Giudecca Canal. Unaware he marks the beginning of a real revolution.

In the same year he finished the academy and went for a training course in central Italy. Exceptional opportunity to go to Florence, the capital of the new avant-garde, a reference city for the Italian artists who were rewriting the history of art at the Caffè Michelangelo, detaching themselves from the past and from the dictates of the Accademia della Crusca, painting now turns to everyday life, to worldly life, to people.

Ciardi in Florence met the critic Diego Martelli and met Telemaco Signorini and the Tuscan Macchiaioli. Ciardi’s painting is influenced by the “stain” and by a finally free and fluid painting that speaks of everyday emotions. The Barbizon school merges with the shapes and style of the Caffè Michelangelo.

Ciardi exhibited in numerous exhibitions and received the gold medal both at the Nice Exhibition and at the international one in Berlin in 1886 for his masterpiece “Messidoro”. At the Venice art exhibition of 1887, the “Messidoro” still remains the best landscape painting.

In the painting “Fishermen on the shoal” we find in the Venetian landscape, as well as in many of his other works, the presence of people, always depicted in small size at work, everyday life. People are active figures in the work and not accessory figures who give meaning to the painting. The subject of the work is not only the lagoon but rather the lagoon populated by its people where everything is in harmony with the landscape. The lagoon becomes a place of life and work.

Guglielmo Ciardi
(1842 -1917)
Fishermen on the shoal
Oil on canvas cm 53 x 86

Beauty, seduction and deception in Secol-Art, GREAT PREVIEW 2023!

Samson‘s episode is certainly one of the most compelling in the Bible. Taken from the book of Judges, the story of the herculean and fearless Samson and his superhuman strength has all the charm of the great classical mythology.
Invincible for the Philistine enemies, Samson too, like any self-respecting hero, has a single weak point: his hair from which he draws his strength.

Curiosity: Born into the tribe of Dan, he was consecrated a Nazirite: in homage to this consecration, he was obliged to wear long hair and the secret of his strength alludes to his loyalty to his vow.

In any case, tempted, seduced and deceived by the beautiful Delilah, previously bought by his enemies, Samson gives in: he reveals his secret to the woman who shaves him and delivers him to the Philistines.

The epilogue of the story is well known: a prisoner and blind, after having suffered a thousand tortures, Samson waits for his hair and his strength to grow back before sacrificing himself and destroying the temple of Dagon, thus obtaining his revenge but also his redemption.

In the splendid representation of Samson and Dalila brought to Modenantiquaria 2023 by Secol-Art Antichità by Davide Masoero and presented here in preview, the author, the great Gerolamo Cenatempo, creates a masterly oxymoronic contrast between the skin color of the two characters, thus perfectly summarizing the nature of seduction and deception.

SAMPSON AND DELILAH
GEROLAMO CENATEMPO
(? – Naples, 1744)
Oil painting on canvas
151.5 x 258.5cm.

Signed and dated Hieronimus Cenatempo F. 1713
Publications: Arte Cristiana, Year LXXXVI 788 of 1998
Memoirs of the Lunigiana Academy of Sciences, 2018

“Italian cowboys” in the Galleria d’Arte Goldoni: the heroism of the Macchiaioli shows off at Modenantiquaria 2023!

The world of the Maremma Butteri and their life as “Italian cowboys” is one of the most important and engaging strands of Fattori’s painting. For those who have never heard of them, the Butteri have an ANCIENT ITALIAN TRADITION AND MANY SECRETS…

The Maremma Butteri are shepherds on horseback typical of the Maremma region in Tuscany. They ride the Maremma horses dressed in a very particular way: corduroy trousers, chaps, velvet jacket and black hat.

They protect themselves from the rain with the “pastràno” (reminiscent of the gauchos’ poncho), a large cloak. They carry mazzarella, a stick employed for herding oxen and horses. In the past they were very numerous. Today, however, there are few who try to preserve and keep alive the tradition and secrets of this work. Between the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, the butteri crossed the inaccessible and marshy areas of the Maremma to lead oxen and horses to graze, making sure none of these got lost in the thick Mediterranean scrub. They were the only ones who knew how to move and how to survive in a land so wild as to be inhospitable. Today associations have arisen with the aim of enhancing and promoting the figure of the buttero. These associations make equestrian exhibitions to the public, also in groups, in competitions of ability, in the taming of foals and in the merca (branding).

Giovanni Fattori manages to create breathtaking works for the realism with which he describes the life and work of these indomitable shepherds called Butteri. Rebellious painter and scrupulous observer of nature, Giovanni Fattori was one of the most important artists of the artistic current of the MACCHIAIOLI, tireless and heroic men and artists, ready to restart every day despite any difficulty.

BUTTERI IN MAREMMA by GIOVANNI FATTORI, watercolor on paper applied on cardboard, 1880-85. Signed lower right “Gio Fattori” was exhibited in “I Macchiaioli”, an exhibition curated by Mario Borgiotti, from 14 July to 30 September 1946 in Florence, Palazzo Pitti Gallery of Modern Art. “I Macchiaioli” exhibition catalog (14 July – 30 September 1946, Florence, Pitti Palace Modern Art Gallery) edited by Mario Borgiotti, Florence.

One of the greatest exhibitions IN WHICH FATTORI WAS THE PROTAGONIST was that of PALAZZO ZABARELLA “MACCHIAIOLI, Masterpieces of a Rising Italy” which was held from 24 October 2020 to 18 April 2021 curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Giuliano Matteucci organized by the President of the Bano Foundation Federico Bano.

The controversial figure of the mythical King Solomon in Galleria Le Due Torri, GREAT PREVIEW 2023!

Solomon is perhaps the most controversial and ambiguous figure of the mythical kings of Israel. Third on the throne, son of David and Bathsheba, he went down in history for his great wisdom and for the period of peace and prosperity that characterized his reign.

However countless ambiguous legends have been built around his figure, which combine undisputed wisdom with occult practices such as magic, talking to animals and dominating spirits.

The marvelous painting by Giuseppe Varotti “Solomon incenses the idols” brought to Modenantiquaria 2023 by Galleria Le Due Torri and presented here in preview, masterfully represents another ambiguous aspect of the king’s life.

Accordingly, to the legend, Solomon surrounded himself with a harem full of seven hundred princesses and over three hundred concubines and that, in order not to displease them, he was induced by them to adore their equally numerous divinities, even though he had built in the heart of his capital the famous Temple of Jerusalem.

The decidedly misogynistic moral underlying the legend is the Latin one: “Mulieres apostatare faciunt sapientes”, which translates as “Women make even the wise men turn away from the right path”, even the wisest of the wise.

Solomon incenses the idols
Giuseppe Varotti
(Bologna, 1715 – Bologna, 1780)
Oil on canvas, cm 138 x 98.

THE SACRED FIRE OF THE VESTALS IN THE PAOLO ANTONACCI GALLERY in Modenantiquaria 2023. GREAT PREVIEW XXXVI Edition!

The Temple of Vesta is one of the oldest and most important sanctuaries in Rome: it housed the “sacred fire“, symbol of the community and the state and was closely connected with the HOUSE OF THE VESTALS.
Who were the Vestals… pure and superb in their immense beauty?

“First of all, they were called vestals because they were the priestesses of Vesta, a lesser-known goddess than Jupiter, Minerva or Neptune, but who according to legend was their sister, daughter of Cronus and Rhea,” explains Manzo. «The peculiarity of Vesta is that she was identified precisely with the sacred fire». The interesting thing, pace the gods of Olympus, is that the sacred fire was the most intimate cult of the Romans, perhaps of local origin. «It was the principle of life and creation, a solar element. Once it was extinguished due to carelessness or lack of devotion, Roman civilization would end. This was believed by the authorities, regardless of the compelling stories of divinities with human features to be disclosed to the people», continues the scholar. In short, the elite had an animist principle as the foundation of the religion of the state: fire understood as primary vital energy. To keep it in the best possible way, Numa Pompilius (754-673 BC), the second king of Rome, instituted the order of the vestals, made up of 4 virgins. In the writings of the Latin authors consulted by Frigerio, the foundation myth elaborated by Numa traced the first Vestal Virgin to Rhea Silvia, mother of Romulus and Remus. Servius Tullius, according to Plutarch (or Tarquinius Priscus, for Dionysius of Halicarnassus), then brought the number of priestesses of Vesta to 6.

Ippolito Caffi is an important and significant figure of Venetian artist and patriot of the nineteenth century. Born in Belluno on October 26, 1809, he died in the battle of Lissa on July 20, 1866.
He was above all a landscape painter, heir to the great school of Venetian landscape painters of the 18th century. His sure point of reference was therefore Canaletto.

The so-called ‘Vesta temple’ in Rome: Sepia watercolor on paper, 230 x 315 mm.
Signed and inscribed lower right “temple of Vesta in Rome”.
On the reverse ‘Study of perspectives with letters’.

The watercolor depicts the famous temple of Hercules known as the ‘Temple of Vesta’ with the fountain of the Tritons by Bizzaccheri on the left.

The pictorial genius of Silvestro Lega in Enrico Gallerie D’arte, GREAT PREVIEW 2023!

Enrico Gallerie d’Arte presents to Modenantiquaria 2023 a masterpiece of rare value by the illustrious Silvestro Lega, here in preview.

Lega certainly needs no introduction. Born in Modigliana in 1826, he almost immediately revealed himself as a pictorial talent or, as he himself claims: “Doodling on the walls, I was led to believe that I had a genius for painting. I got to a point where I really believed it.”

Thus, he forced his father to take him to Florence where, however, he was disappointed by traditional academic studies. However, the city played a central role in his career: it is in fact there that he met those who would later be the companions of the Macchiaioli artistic movement, establishing himself as one of its main exponents.

The idea behind the movement was to bring Italian art back to the ancient splendor of the Renaissance, unhinging it from the academic rules and restoring importance to what the Macchiaioli considered the most important component of the work: the areas (or spots) of light and shade, with the added feature of painting outdoors.

In the extraordinary work “Il pergolato“, four years before its more famous namesake kept in the Pinacoteca di Brera, the viewer can admire all the talent and the most genuine thought of Lega in a barely sketched scene of peace, light and colour.

Il pergolato
Silvestro Lega, 1864,
oil on panel, cm. 25.5 x 15.9.

The mastery of Giuseppe Vincenzino’s still lifes in Renzo Moroni Gallery, Modenantiquaria 2023!

Giuseppe Voló, also known as Vincenzino is one of the great Italian masters of still life, descended from a family with the same vocation.

Although more difficult than the rest of figurative art, still life is a genre of great charm that has deep roots since antiquity.

Just think of the legendary pictorial contest between Zeuxis and Parrhasius, an anecdote reported by Pliny the Elder to reflect on the thin line between art and deception.

In fact, it is said that Parrhasius competed with Zeuxis; while the latter presented grapes painted so well that the birds began to flutter over the picture, the latter displayed a curtain painted with such realism that Zeuxis, filled with pride at the judgment of the birds, asked that, once the curtain was removed, he could finally see the painting. After realizing his mistake, he granted him the victory with noble modesty: if he had deceived the birds, Parrhasius had deceived himself, a painter.

The vivid details and colors of Voló, as well as the typical transparent glazes that restore an almost palpitating freshness to the objects represented could have deceived the birds of Zeuxis in the same way.

In any case, the still life “excerpts”, not devoid of allegorical meanings, constitute an authentic anthology of flowers, fruit and animals, which focuses on the vertigo of illusion where the pictorial technique creates with colour, light and perspective, vivid images.

The “Still life of fruit and flowers” by Vincenzino, brought to Modenantiquaria 2023 by Moroni Renzo, is a splendid example.

GIUSEPPE VOLO’ known as VINCENZINO
(Milan 1712 – Milan? post 1716)
Still life of fruit and flowers
Oil on canvas, 60×88 cm

The ascension towards God and Beauty in Federico Andrisani Gallery, GREAT PREVIEW 2023!

One of the most evocative and profound episodes of Genesis is certainly Jacob’s dream. Son of Isaac and grandson of Abraham, Jacob, during his journey to Haran, stopped and fell asleep from exhaustion. He then had an astonishing dream: near him were the feet of a ladder that reached up to heaven, the angels of God were climbing up and they descended steadily.

It was then that the Lord promised him the land on which he had lain down as the homeland of his descendants and blessed his mission. So Jacob, upon awakening, took the stone on which he had lain down, erected it in the ground as a stele and consecrated it with oil.

In “Jacob’s Dream” brought to Modenantiquaria 2023 by Federico Andrisani Gallery, Giuseppe Zola, the great 17th century painter from Brescia, chooses to represent the two different moments of the episode, synthesizing their strong symbolism in a single landscape.

On the one hand, Jacob asleep and the ladder of angels perfectly depict, in clear brushstrokes, the ascent to God and the elevation of the soul to the higher things that every believer must have.
On the other hand, the strong contrast between the dream and the materiality of stone underlines the importance of work and religious practices.

Giuseppe Zola
Brescia, 1672 – Ferrara, 1743
Jacob’s dream
Oil painting on canvas; 138×172

At the Bourbon Court with Jakob Philip Hackert in Antichità Giglio.

Extraordinary landscape painter and trusted court painter Jakob Philipp Hackert increases his fame in Italy and thanks to Ferdinand IV of Bourbon. His paintings are an important historical testimony of the ancient views of an eighteenth-century Caserta.

His painting characterized by the clear rendering of natural details and the realistic description of the painted places made him famous throughout Europe.
Here in preview for Modenantiquaria 2023 Antichità Giglio presents the pair of paintings “View of Mount Pisano with the Medici Aqueduct” and “View of Livorno from the Sanctuary of Montenero”.

Perhaps not everyone knows the story of this extraordinary, prolific painter and tireless traveller, a painter loved by nobles and royalty.
Hackert, of Prussian origins, obtained his first important assignment from Baron Von Olthof, who acted as his patron. Shortly after, the King of Sweden called him to Stockholm to make a series of commissioned paintings. From Sweden he then moves to Hamburg, Paris to arrive as far as Italy, first in Tuscany and then in Rome, where he comes into contact with the community of German painters and where he receives some of his most important commissions, both from Pope Pius VI and from the Tsarina of Russia Catherine the Great.

Thanks to this last assignment, Hackert met Ferdinand IV who commissioned him four paintings depicting “The harvest at San Leucio”, “The ferry on the Sele”, “The hunting lodge at Persano” and “The Royal Palace of Caserta” seen from the belvedere of the capuchins. The works are still present in the collection of the Royal Palace of Caserta. The king was so impressed by his works that in 1786 he hired him as his personal painter. Hackert moved to Naples with his brothers in Palazzo Cellamare, here he met Goethe, an important meeting for the growth of the painter’s notoriety. Goethe mentions him in his famous work “Journey to Italy” and dedicated a biography to him in 1811, still today the main source of information on Hackert’s life.

Hackert’s paintings are found, as well as in the Royal Palace of Caserta, in all the main museums of the capitals of Europe, in Russia and in the United States; particularly exemplary paintings of his art are exhibited in the three Goethe-Museums in Frankfurt am Main, Düsseldorf and Weimar.

JAKOB PHILIP HACKERT
(Prenzlau, Brandenburg District, Prussia, 1737 – San Pietro di Careggi, Florence, 1807)
View of Mount Pisano with the Medici Aqueduct, 1799
View of Livorno from the Sanctuary of Montenero, 1800
Oil on canvas, cm 121×170.
Signed, dated and titled lower left: “Filippo Hackert, depise 1800 / View of Livorno taken by Montenero”
Provenance: Noble Tuscan family

Sensuality and beauty of an oriental night in Liberty Art Nouveau, GREAT PREVIEW 2023!

Liberty Art Nouveau presents a great masterpiece by Luis Ridel to Modenantiquaria 2023, here in preview.

The artist, born in Vannes in 1866 and a pupil of Gustave Moreau, specialized precisely on the figure of the female nude in his eclectic production (he was a painter, sculptor and also a medalist).

“Oriental night” is a perfect synthesis of his creative talent. The female nude scene is sensual but refined, the young protagonist is almost dreamy under the veils and rose petals of the boat that follows the waves of the sea.

Impossible not to notice the influence of the master Moreau, who with the veils of his Salome enchanted Huysmans so strongly to make the Stendhal syndrome in À rebours unforgettable.

Lo stesso incanto si ritrova nel capolavoro di Ridel e nei profumi d’oriente che la sua opera riesce a far sentire allo spettatore.
The same enchantment can be found in Ridel’s masterpiece and in the oriental scents that his work manages to convey to the viewer.

“ORIENTAL NIGHT”
Louis RIDEL
(Vannes 1866/ 1937 Paris)
Oil on canvas, dimensions: 119 x 149 cm.
Signed and dated lower left: L. Ridel 1926.

THE MAGIC AND THE CHARM of VENICE in Galleria Mason-Padova.

Grubacs and “Party on the Grand Canal, View of Ca’ D’Oro in the moonlight”.

Grubacs, a follower of eighteenth-century Venetian landscape painting, illustrates in this painting, with the magical sensation of night parties, Venice celebrating the liberation of the city from the Austrian Empire in 1866 after the defeat of Sadowa. He chooses the view of the Grand Canal and works on the details of the reflections of the moonlight and lanterns in the water. This painting portrays Ca’ D’Oro, one of the most fascinating palaces in Venice, a symbol of Venetian Gothic, with Palazzo Giusti and Palazzo Fontana on its left.

Ca’ d’Oro (Golden House), a true jewel of Venetian Gothic architecture comparable only to Palazzo Ducale, is one of the most admired buildings on the Grand Canal in Venice. The reason why it is called that, perhaps is not known to most…

Ca’ d’Oro was born from the love and energy of two exceptional personalities: Marino Contarini at the beginning of the 1400s and Giorgio Franchetti, 5 centuries later. Contarini had it built and hired the two best sculptors of the time, namely Matteo Raverti (sculptor and architect also of the Milan Cathedral and Palazzo Ducale) and Giovanni Bon. But that’s not all… he called an army of artists, from Niccolò Romanello to Antonio Frison and Giacomo Passerotto and then again Giacomo da Como and Gasparino Rosso, who gave life to the most beautiful Gothic palace in Venice.

The Ca’ d’Oro construction site thus becomes a melting pot of innovations, of contaminations between the Lombard style of Raverti and the colors of Bon. Giovanni Chalier then elaborates a sumptuous pictorial decoration for the facade. And this is why the splendid building was so named: as the Venetians are used to giving nicknames to everything including churches, seeing a sea of colors and flashes reflected in the waters of the Grand Canal coming from the facade of the Palazzo, enraptured, and overwhelmed by this light almost fairy-tale they called it Ca’ d’Oro.

Now Ca’ d’Oro is the seat of the prestigious Galleria Giorgio Franchetti which houses on two floors the important collection of the Baron who in 1916 donated it to the Italian State and the building itself, after having restored it with extensive restorations, original splendour.

“Party on the Grand Canal, View of Ca’ D’Oro in the moonlight” by Carlo Grubacs
(Venice 1802-1878)
oil on canvas, c. 80×120
Signed lower right “C. Grubacs”

Stefano Maria Legnani, better known as Legnanino, is certainly not a painter who needs an introduction.

Born in Milan in 1661, he worked in the main Italian cities, and established himself with his Baroque style with light and nuanced shades and brilliant colors, clearly brighter than the dark colors of contemporary painters.

“Charity” brought to Modenantiquaria 2023 by Mattarte and presented here in preview, sums up all the magic of Legnanino’s painting in a scene of strong emotion and grace, where the purity of the gesture blends perfectly into the candor of the colors and the smiles of the figures.

Stefano Maria Legnani known as Legnanino
(Milan 1661-1713)
Charity
Oil on canvas, cm.95,5×127
Expertise Dr. Arabella Cifani

The journey beyond reality in Galleria d’Arte Frediano Farsetti with the great GIORGIO DE CHIRICO and “Still life of fruit in a village, late 1950s”.

Perhaps not everyone knows that also in German the term still life is translated into Still Leben as in English, a term that truly describes the silent life of objects and things in a truly exhaustive way, a life full of peace, without movement or sound, no noise or chaos. A talented painter manages to give life and charm to a simple jug placed on the table, to a fruit basket that to all might seem an inanimate thing… and instead through the eyes of the “Painter” it becomes almost a living being, silent but full of charm and emotion.

We cite here a part of the writing of “Isabella Far” in “Traguardi”, New Italian editions, Rome 1945. Now in G. de Chirico, Scritti/1 (1911-1945). Romanzi e Scritti critici e teorici, edited by A. Cortellessa, ed. directed by A. Bonito Oliva, Bompiani, Milan 2008, pp. 476-480 and in La Natura secondo de Chirico, exhibition catalog edited by A. Bonito Oliva, Palazzo delle Esposizioni and also reported on the Giorgio and Isa de Chirico Foundation website.

(…) The substance of things matters more than colours; it is the substance that determines the form, while the plasticity is intensified by the layer of air that envelops things. And the air that makes us guess and see with our brain the invisible side of objects for us. The air makes things emerge, softens their contours and, at the same time, intensifies their shapes. The air is everywhere; it must also be “painted on the canvas”. Painting the air is very difficult; painting the air means giving things such a plasticity, such a volume, such a force of form, that between one object and another one feels the air circulate and that the objects appear suspended, immobile, but alive in the air that moves, that moves, while things seem stopped, immobilized, as if by magic, with their borders, their promontories, their terraces, their towers, their viewpoints, their horizons. A still life contains a whole geography, a whole reduced world, as in illustrated dictionaries. A talented painter, in painting a still life, is truly painting the silent life of things created by nature or made by men. Nature and reality have no aesthetic problems, nor artistic concerns. It is the artist’s duty to give beauty to the things he/she sees and interprets (…)

The splendid painting presented here in preview at Modenantiquaria 2023 is the representation of one of the still lives created by de Chirico. Also, in this work it can be seen how this extraordinary artist, father of metaphysical painting in which art looks to deeper and more interior suggestions going beyond physical matter, is fascinated by the favourite object of all his works, Nature, which he continues to investigate throughout his artistic life.

GIORGIO DE CHIRICO
“Still life of fruit in a village, late 1950s”
Oil on canvas, cm 50×60