old masters
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A “walking man” that has lost his “cello”.
Here is a wonderful sculpture at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam (inv. BK-16083): it represents a walking man with a raised left arm and the right protrunding outwards. The description of the item in the museum’s website reads: De man staat met het linkerbeen voor het rechter, met even naar buiten gedraaide voet. De rechterarm houdt…
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A recently sold print.
Recently we sold a print rarely seen in collections, the “Christ and his disciples on the way to Emmaus”, engraved by Domenico Vito, monaco Vallombrosano (fl. 1574-1578). This composition is a mirrored smaller copy from another engraving made by Philips Galle (1537-1612) in 1571, likely after a painting by Pieter Bruegel the elder (1526/30-1569) [New…
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The plate and the painter: on a little discovery in late 2017
Countless are the ways music and visual arts meet. Here is the short account of what was recently discovered behind a painting on copper.* This tale begins at the beginning of last summer, in June, on my trip back from Arezzo. A dear friend in Bologna, Tommaso Pasquali, introduced me to Camillo Tarozzi, a renowned…
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Noli me Tangere
I ran into a drawing by Giovanni Pietro Ligari (1686-1748) at the Casa Ligari museum in Sondrio (Palazzo Sassi de Lavizzari). It looked too Flemish to me. In fact it is a copy after a beautiful engraving by AEgidius Sadeler (1570-1629) after a desing by Bartholomeus Spranger (1546-1611) [Rijksmuseum RP-P-OB-5110]. hypnotic lines. For more on…
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2 Tempestas
Antonio Tempesta (1555 – 1630) Musicians and singers [Harvard Museum 61.2007 and 63.2007]
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The Double
Antonio Caranzano (active 1577 – 1618) [Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, WA1863.4008] GRANDEZZA MAHUMETANA / IGNORANTIA MAHUMETANA [1583], when images are worth a thousand words
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Strings and Winds
Giovanni Pietro Birago (active c.1471/1474 – 1513) [Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, WA1863.1623] Nereid and two children playing musical instruments
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Finally Catalogue#40
Finally Catalogue #40 on Heraldry is out! Here’s the link https://issuu.com/antiquariaatvandersteur/docs/40catalogue 13th May an exhibition with a choice of items will be held at Antiquariaat van der Steur in The Hague https://www.facebook.com/events/271335333303366/
Anna Bianco 