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Presentazione di Giacomo C. Bascapè\r\nRicotti Bertagnoni, Adalberto. Bassano del Grappa, La remondiniana, 1970-\r\n\r\nBlasone veneto, descritto ne'xxxv tomi della Biblioteca Universale.\r\nCoronelli, Vincenzo, 1650-1718.\r\n\r\nLe Arme, overo, Insegne di tutti li nobili della città di Venetia.\r\nBologna : SEAB, 1978.","historicalContext":"Comparable cassoni\r\n\r\nNorth Italian c1550, 167 x 56 x 68cm; Museo Poldi Pezzoli di Milano, Maria Teresa Balboni Brizza: Stipi e cassoni. (Turin, 1995), no. 5\r\nCassone (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence), illustrated in Mina Gregori, Renato Ruotolo, Lisa Bandera Gregori, Il Mobile Italiano dal Rinascimento agli anni trenta (Milan, 1981), ","briefDescription":"Walnut, carved and gilded, Italy, 1540-1560","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wilhelm Bode, Die Italienischen Hausmöbel der Renaissance, p.78"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"London, South Kensington Museum: Ancient and Modern Furniture & Woodwork in the South  Kensington Museum, described with an introduction by John Hungerford Pollen  (London, 1874) \r\n“The subjects of the carving are different from those of the preceding number, but the two coffers are a pair, and may from the nature of the subjects he concluded to have been part of a bride’s dower, or the marriage furniture of the family”"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Frieda Schottmüller, Furniture and Interior Decoration of the Italian Renaissance (Stuttgart, 1928),  p.62"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"H.Avray Tipping, Italian furniture of the Italian Renaissance as represented at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Country Life March 31st 1917, pp. 3-8"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"London, South Kensington Museum: Ancient and Modern Furniture & Woodwork in the South  Kensington Museum, described with an introduction by John Hungerford Pollen  (London, 1874), p.\n\r\n“Sarcophagus shaped . The shield is charged with a fess of three lines , of which the middle is wavy. In chief are five descending rays and in base a fleur-de-lis. Winged harpy figures turning into foliage scrolls with masks, are carved on the angles. The bottom is cut into scrolls and rests on claw feet. The plinth is a flat platform with guilloche ornament cut round the edge. The ground of the carved portions is gilt. It is Florentine, and belongs to the middle of the 16th century.\""},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Wilhelm von Bode, Italian Renaissance Furniture (originally published as Die Italienischen Hausmöbel der Renaissance, Leipzig 1902) translated by Mary Herrick (New York, 1921). P.78\r\n\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Eric Mercer, The Social History of the Decorative Arts – Furniture 700-1700 (London, 1969), fig. 108"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Franz Windisch-Graetz, Möbel Europa. 2. Renaissance-Manierismus (Munich, 1982), fig. 59"},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"Clive Wainwright, edited for publication by Charlotte Gere, The making of the South  Kensington Museum III. Collecting abroad, in  Journal of the History of  Collections  14 no. 1 (2002) pp.45-61\r\nOn p.48 n.9 notes that 4414 to 4417-1857 were purchased in Paris, (apparently by Cole or Robinson).\r\n"}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[{"text":"CHEST.\r\nITALIAN (probably ROMAN);\r\nabout 1560.\r\nCarved chestnut and partly gilt.\r\nThe coat-of-arms not identified.\r\n4415-1857","date":{"text":"pre-2006","earliest":"2006-01-01","latest":"2006-12-31"}},{"text":"CASSONE\r\nWalnut with gesso and gilding\r\nITALIAN; about 1560\r\n4415-1857\r\nFrom about 1550, cassoni (literally large boxes), used for storage and often associated with marriage, were being carved rather than painted. This cassone is decorated with amorini driving dogs and bulls in strapwork cartouches. Mythological and ancient historical themes were popular, often derived from engravings of paintings by Raphael and Michelangelo or illustrations to popular versions of classical texts. The amorini driving lions and horses may have been derived respectively from the Genius of Cybele and Genius of Mars motifs from the Villa Lante murals, recently attributed to Raphael, in Rome. 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