GRAND TOUR BRONZE JARDINIERE
GRAND TOUR ITALIAN BRONZE JARDINIERE AFTER THE ANTIQUE, BY SABATINO DE ANGELIS & FILS, 1906 The pierced slatted basket with carying handles supported by three herm monopodiae, the inside of the basket (missing) inscribed Sab de Angelis & Fils, Naples 1906H. 89 cm; W. 56 cm; D. 42 cm. After the : Roman Original Brasero Bronze tripod with itiphallic Satyrs - 1st century BC - from Julia Felix house at Pompeii - Naples, Archaeological Museum ("Secret Room"). http://www.christies.com In the second half of the xixth century, European artists travelling about the archeological sites of the Mediterranean world created a particular pictorial style. The renewal of the Pompei excavations provided them with a privileged ground for staging a more intimist history relying more on a carnal contact with the daily objects of the Ancients than on literary texts. This “pictorial history” that might be referred to as emotional is nonetheless supported by a genuine concern for erud