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A portrait of the king of Naples in ‘pietre dure’
06/2008 | 1263 | 150
Pages: 397-400
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Author:
González-Palacios, Alvar (González-Palacios, Alvar; Palacios, Alvar González-)
Subjects
dates:
1700-1749
print:
Italian art
print:
Ghinghi, Francesco
subjects:
Portraits / Mosaics / Frames / Italian / Charles III, King of Spain, 1716-1788
subjects:
Portrait miniatures
subjects:
Pietre Dure
Illustrations
Attributed works:
34. Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, by Francesco Ghinghi. c.1740. Pietre dure mosaic relief with a gilt-bronze frame, 32 by 22.5 cm. (frame). (Private collection, Paris).
Attributed works:
35. Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, by Antonio Sebastiani. 1736. Canvas, 100 by 75 cm. (Reales Alcázares, Seville).
Attributed works:
36. Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, Electress Palatine, here attributed to Giuseppe Antonio Torricelli. 1705? Pietre dure mosaic in relief, fixed to an ebony, gilt-bronze and pietra dura clock of Florentine manufacture; at the base a commesso relief of an angel also attributed to Torricelli. (Residenz, Munich).
Attributed works:
37. The Annunciation, by Francesco Ghinghi and the Real Laboratorio delle pietre dure di Napoli. c.1739–42. Pietre dure, 85 by 75 cm., with an ebony and gilt-bronze frame, the bronzes attributed to Giacomo Ceci and his son. (Palacio Real, Madrid).
Attributed works:
38. A gilt-bronze embellishment from one of the tables made for Charles of Bourbon, King of Naples, c.1738–49. The bronzes are attributed to Giacomo Ceci. (Palacio Real, Madrid).