Cleaning it up could accurately be described as a major undertaking, since it might just about kill you. Giusti seems to be to frames what Hanau...
Wrong first name. Marfan?
King James, methinks.
Never mind.
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Brings back memories of lying in a hospital bed with a broken hip (me, not the bed).
Contemporary consensus is that the sitter was not Beatrice & the painter was not Reni. You see school of Reni, circle of Reni, Elisabetta Sirani,...
You've mentioned that it has been over fire & smoke & that you wondered whether to clean. You might have to ask a wood conservator to find out,...
Is that the one that runs on 2 legs?
Realize I was using wrong pix for comparison. Maybe one was so successful another maker decided to imitate?
This carving is not an exact copy of that drawing; changes were made. There are certain conventions in depicting Medusa, so they are bound to...
Someone point out to me what's different about the position of the tail? Love the detail on these, that the underside got as much attention as...
As I was just about to say. :) The initials are likely to have been those of an owner, not the artist. It kind of looks like an engraving that...
To my eye that drawing could easily be a sketching out of the idea for this Medusa.
[IMG] [ATTACH] Just wanted to see them together.
Sorry, what I said was ambiguous. The other meaning: how exact do you need the date to be? A terminus ante quem is not adequate?
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Is there a label just below the picture? What does it say?
That's pre-Raphaelite if I ever saw it.
That one is shape 317. It has been made in 3 sizes. How big is yours?
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