Deluxe illustrated catalogue of the treasures and antiquities illustrating the golden age of Italian art; belonging to the famous expert and antiquarian, Signor Stefano Bardini, of Florence, Italy - Thomas Ellis Kirby, Paperback

• Release Date   3/6/2012
• ISBN-13   9781130132861 | 978-1-130-13286-1
• ISBN   1130132862 | 1-130-13286-2
• Format   Paperback
• Author(s)   Thomas Ellis Kirby
• This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 Excerpt: ...panel, enclosed by a molded border and carved in low relief with a band of conventional waves and two mythical sea-monsters, one with a ram's head and body and a dragon's tail, and one with two winged snakes' heads. The latter draws by a cord a bowl in which stands a vase-shaped ewer. (Slightly repaired.) Height, 601/. inches. width, 20 inches. (Illustrated) 393--Sixteenth Century Italian Marble Coat-of-arms Rectangular tablet, carved in low relief with a shaped escutcheon charged with a coat-of-arms (quartered with a two-headed eagle) surmounted by a helmet and the couped head of a soldier, with steel morion, holding a bodkin. The helmet is mantled with drapery and tasseled acanthus leaves and surrounded by a label inscribed in Roman characters with a Latin inscription. Height, 25 inches. width, 221,/ inches. (Illustrated) 394--Fifteenth Century Italian Marble Papal Coat-of-arms Rectangular tablet, carved with a wreath of oak leaves flanked by scrolled ribbons and enclosing a shaped escutcheon charged with the coat-of-arms of the Piccolomini family (a cross with five crescents) surmounted by the crossed Keys and Papal Tiara tied by an embroidered stole. This coat-of-arms is that of Enea Pio Piccolomini (Pius II), better known as Aeneas Sylvius, who was Pope from 1458 to 1-164. (Slightly repaired.) Height, 25 inches. width, 40'/ inches. (Illustrated) 395--Fifteenth Century Italian Marble Papal Coat-of-arms Rectangular tablet, carved with a catenary of festoons of fruits tied with scrolled ribbons and with fruit pendants and with a shield charged with the coat-of-arms of the Piccolomini family (a cross and five crescents) surmounted by the Crossed Keys and Papal Tiara tied with an embroidered stole. This coatof-arms is that of Enea Pio Piccolomini (Pius II),...