"Head of Bacchus" by Ignacio Beller

This very fine drawing from the early Baroque period is in Sanguine on laid paper. this Italian drawing in a rich brown-red is framed in a fine old gilded frame...

Copy of painting titled "Bacchus" (1638-40) featuring a nude corpulant Bacchus and his followers

Italian Renaissance style portrait of a bearded notable wearing laurel wreath within a gilt wood frame. (18/19th Cent)

A brilliant example of Neoclassical painting from the 1820s or 30s, this depiction of a fully nude Bacchus figure, his head encircled by a wreath woven with grapes and grapevines, hi...

This 18th century Italian School painting depicts Saint Paul of Tarsus — also known as the Apostle Paul or Apostle of the Gentiles — rendered in oil on copper with deep intensity and...

A finely executed 19th century European School oil on canvas depicting Bacchus (Dionysus), the classical god of wine, fertility, and celebration. The youthful deity is portrayed sta...

A very large mid-17th century Italian school oil profile portrait of a philosopher, painted on a rectangular canvas and mounted in a painted and gilded antique frame. Reminiscent of...

Venetian school, 18th century Study with the head of a cherub Measures: Oil on canvas, 45.5 x 41 cm - with frame 54.5 x 49.5 cm The present qualifies as a study or preparatory sketch by virtue of the structural and figural layout; by reason of formal and substantial evidence, it can be traced back to the mature neo-Venetian style, which in the eighteenth century had begun to produce figurations of extreme typological pathetism and formal expressionism. The contemporary painting experience of Tiepolo commanded the Venetian art scene, once the lesson of Pier Francesco Mola (1612-1666) was overruled. The delicate putto head offered here, in which a cherub is recognizable due to the happy iconographic solution of the wings placed under the angel's face, is outlined with a vigorous vitalism. A foreshortened point of view illuminates his face in a grazing way, probing his features with strong shadows and with a youthful blush that orange his cheeks. The veristic perfection with which the artist arranges the semblant is of marvelous expressiveness. The eyes are swollen with intensity, and together with the general setting of the head they denounce a conscious reflection on the physiognomy, peculiar within the emerging context of Venetian painting. The painting in question is affected by the large-scale productions, both monumental and perspective, at the time in vogue in the territory of the Serenissima. Conceived through a vision from below, the portrait reveals from the Venetian Rococo that particular predilection for the open and clear, airy ways, denounced in the first instance by Tiepolo. The conscious detachment from the Cortona-style decorativism and from the repeated layout solutions then in vogue allow us to approach the present to the production of Francesco Fontebasso...

An elegant oval oil painting on a wooden panel, set within a carved, gold-leaf-gilded wooden frame. The work depicts the god Bacchus in the vibrant bloom of youth, wearing a wreath o...

Oil painting of a medieval man with drop earing, signed on lower corner Costello. Original caved wood Frame. Circa 1950's. Framed 17.5 tall, 15.5 wide...