AMART 2022: Special Mention
Once again this year the Cesati Gallery took part in AMART, the art and antiques exhibition held at the Museo della Permanente in Milan, last October. Cesati’s stand was widely appreciated for its display elegance and the quality of the works exhibited, so much that it was awarded for its set-up by a jury made …
BIAF 2022
In the luxurious setting of Palazzo Corsini, the XXXII edition of BIAF – Florence International Biennial Antiques Fair will open the doors to the public. Alessandro Cesati Gallery will participate with a curated selection of important sculptures and rare works of art, displayed in booth 44, located on the ground floor. Among the most important …
TEFAF 2022
The Dutch appointment comes back in presence! Alessandro Cesati Gallery is taking part in the next edition of this unmissable International Art Fair with a refined selection of important sculptures and works of art, set up in a stand with two rooms: the largest one will be dedicated to 17th and 18th centuries, the smallest …
A Refined Goldsmith Scale
This rare and extraordinarily elegant measuring instrument stands out for its the exclusive fineness: a precision scale with moulded steel shears, steel equal arms beam with swan neck finials; circular embossed silver plate pans are hung to the beam through stirrup shaped silver threads; an elegant cover plate to the shears in finely pierced, engraved …
An Important Italian Renaissance Chest
This exceptional chest, made by assembling thick walnut boards with meticulous dovetail joints, represents the perfect combination of security and elegance. Its external surface is richly adorned on the front with a set of five chased thin ironwork decorative handles – bolted through lozenge shaped, pierced and engraved backplates – ; at the center top, …
A rediscovered Lombard ‘bronzetto’
This unpublished bronze statuette is a small-scale reproduction of one of the best-known masterpieces of late 16th-century Lombard sculpture: the marble Madonna Assunta by Annibale Fontana (1540-1587), made for the façade of the Milanese church of Santa Maria dei Miracoli presso San Celso. Achieved in 1583-1584 and installed in 1590, just thirty years later the statue was …
A wonderful Pair of gilded Phoenixes
These rare and unpublished metal sculptures were made by riveting together several foils of embossed iron, polychromed with red on the inner side and then fully gilded. The birds rest their talons on what looks like a rock or a drift of burning ashes, with little grassy tufts or small tongues of fire, placed over …
The Alessandro Cesati gallery has been taking part in the most prominent and select Italian and international exhibitions for many years now.
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