Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . 575 J> I/O* Pair of Sixteenth Century Italian GlobesTerrestrial and Celestial globes, the one a Map of the World,the other a Map of the Heavens, engraved on paper, mountedon spheres of papier-mache. Surrounded by a perpendicularring of brass engraved with degrees and dated 1600. TheCelestial Globe has the Signs of the Zodiac and symbolic figuresof the Constellations, the Terrestrial Globe figures of ships, allrealistically drawn and co
Illustrated catalogue of the exceedingly rare and valuable art treasures and antiquities formerly contained in the famous Davanzati Palace, Florence, Italy . 575 J> I/O* Pair of Sixteenth Century Italian GlobesTerrestrial and Celestial globes, the one a Map of the World,the other a Map of the Heavens, engraved on paper, mountedon spheres of papier-mache. Surrounded by a perpendicularring of brass engraved with degrees and dated 1600. TheCelestial Globe has the Signs of the Zodiac and symbolic figuresof the Constellations, the Terrestrial Globe figures of ships, allrealistically drawn and colored. On gilded bronze stands oftripod form consisting of three shaped voluted flat supportsrichly chased and supported on molded bases, with compassesinserted, with scrolled and voluted feet. Height, 291?•> Davanzati PALA( i : CORNER ok Liyinc Room ORIENTAL RUGS AND CARPETS{Chiefly of the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries) The artistic interchange in Renaissance times between Italy andthe Orient can be discerned in many ways, not the least significant ofwhich is the constant recurrence in Italian paintings of the period ofthe rugs of Persia and Asia Minor. Through Italy, of course, cameto the more northerly countries those tapetti which Holbein so de-lighted to portray that we are wont to classify their existing originalsas Holbein rugs, and direct to Italy some three or four hundredyears ago came these rugs which formed part of the furnishings ofthe Davanzati Palace. This it is that gives them so peculiar a desirability in the eyesof modern collectors, for they embody not only the singular geniusfor color and pattern of their Eastern weavers, but also the deco-rative taste and feeling of the Patrician families of Cinquecento Italyfor the adornment of whose palaces and villas the
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