Arte Moderna e Contemporanea

Luca Alinari "Equazioni mentali". Size 90x70 cm. Year 2018. Mixed media with swarovski crystals scattered on canvas. Signed, accompanied by the certificate of authenticity issued by the Alinari Archive. Published in the monograph Luca Alinari: L’artista dell’immaginifico, Capponi Publisher (pp. 95-97). Provenance: Private Collection, Firenze (Italy)

Luca Alinari "Return to the homeland". Year 1975. Mixed media on canvas. Size 120x120 cm. Signed, accompanied by the certificate of authenticity issued by the Alinari Archive. Published in the monograph Luca Alinari: L’artista dell’immaginifico, Capponi Publisher (pp. 45-47). Provenance: Private Collection, Firenze (Italy)

Marcello Scuffi "Still life with watermelon (Bagni Nettuno)". Oil on panel. Size 68x48 cm. Year 1970. Signed lower right. The artwork is accompanied by two certificates of authenticity: one issued by the artist and the other one by the PubliArt Gallery. Archived and published in the general catalog at number 234/14. Provenance: Private Collection, Firenze (Italy)

Tommaso Cascella "Knowing in time". Size 80x120 cm. Mixed media on panel. Year 2020. Signed on the back. The work is accompanied by the certificate of authenticity issued by the artist and the Pentagon Art Gallery. Provenance: Private Collection, Firenze (Italy)

Archaic Bronze Wine Vessel Archaic bronze wine vessel, (ZUN) late Shang Dynasty, 13th / 12th Century BC. Size H 37 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Verona (Italy)

A rare Jizhou 'Guri' style vase A rare Jizhou 'Guri' style vase, Meiping, Song Dynasty (960-1279). Size H 22.8 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Verona (Italy)

A green enamelled Dragon Jar A green enamelled Dragon Jar, Qianlong six-character seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period. Size H 20.3 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Verona (Italy)

Han Horse Han Horse with termoluminescence report. Size 57x54 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Verona (Italy)

Yuan very rare horse cart and people Yuan very rare horse cart and people (Yuan dynasty) with temoluminescence report (Oxford Authentication)

Abraham Bloemaert and Atelier "The golden age". Oil on copper. Size 62,50 x 47,50 cm. Reference bibliography: Marcel G. Roethlisberger, Abraham Bloemaert and his sons, paintings and prints, Doornspijk Dovaco, 1993, vol. I, pp. 115-118, vol. II, tav, 119-120, cat. 70, cat. D9.The work will be included in the forthcoming catalogue addenda.The artwork is accompanied by a text by Marcel Roethlisberger, March 30th 2006. Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Zhang Haiying (Chinese, b.1972) "Anti-Vice". Year 2008. Oil on canvas. Size 200x300 cm. Signed and dated in the lower center. Provenance: Willem Kerseboom Gallery; Private Collection, Amsterdam

Braun & Hogenberg, "Bird's-Eye View of Moscow" "Moscova Urbs Metropolis Totius Russiae Albae". Period: 1617 (circa). Publication: Civitatus Orbis Theatrum, Vol. VI Old Hand Coloring. Size: 18.1 x 13.7 inches (46 x 35 cm). Braun & Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum or "Cities of the World" was published between 1572 and 1617. Within the six volumes, 531 towns and cities were depicted on 363 plates, providing the reader with the pleasures of travel without the attendant discomforts. Braun wrote in the preface to the third book, "What could be more pleasant than, in one's own home far from all danger, to gaze in these books at the universal form of the earth . . . adorned with the splendor of cities and fortresses and, by looking at pictures and reading the texts accompanying them, to acquire knowledge which could scarcely be had but by long and difficult journeys?" Braun and Hogenberg incorporated an astonishing wealth of information into each scene beyond the city layout and important buildings. This bird's-eye view of Moscow is Braun & Hogenberg's second plan of the then capital city of Russia. It is shown from the northeast with the Moskva River curving through the city. The fortified Kremlin is at the core of the city with the river forming a protective moat to supplement the original city walls. A second wall built in 1534-38 encloses the Kitaigorod, or the trader's quarter, with the suburbs, called Bielgorod, enclosed in a third tower studded wall. The major buildings and churches are identified in a key at right. Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

G. Braun & F. Hogenberg: Map of Amsterdam, Year 1580 Amstelredamum Nobile Inferioris Germaniae Oppidum. Year 1580. Bird's eye view of the city of Amsterdam, with decorative cartouche, arms, ships and a small legend. Original hand-coloured (antique coloring) copper engraving from the book Civitates Orbis Terrarum by Braun-Hogenberg. French text on verso. Size 34 x 48.5 cm.Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Braun & Hogenberg, Map of Jerusalem and temple Year 1972. Title: "Hierosolyma, Clarissima totius orientis Civitas Iudaee Metropolis". Copper engraving from Atlas of Cities of the World by Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg which describes two periods of Jerusalem side by side. Jerusalem of the first century CE is on the left ['Ancient Jerusalem'] and Jerusalem of the 16th century is on the right ['Modern Jerusalem']. Each period has its own legend. In the lower right corner is a pleasant cartouche showing Moshe receiving the tablets of the covenant with the children of Israel at the foot of Mount Sinai and Aharon in priestly clothing in the front. Latin text n verso. Antique coloring. Size: 35x50 cm.Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Flemish School, 18th Century Iced landscape with people on a lake.Painting, Oil on wooden board. Size 62 x 32 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Eduard Ansen-Hofmann (1820-1904), Naked Nymph Austrian painter, naked nymph on a rock in sea surf in the evening, oil on canvas, and the like. li. sign. ''E.Ansen'', label on the reverse, 48 x 102 cm, framed 58 x 112 cm.Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Magini, Giovanni; Map of North and South America Year 1713. Copper-engraved map. 13.5x17.5 cm, on sheet with text measuring 29.3x20.5 cm. First appearing in Magini's 1596 edition of Ptolemy's Geography, based largely Ortelius with the characteristic bulge along the west coast of South America. The present example was published in Alphonse Lasor a Varea's "Universus terrarum orbis scriptorum calami delineates" in 1713.Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

John Speed: The Turkish Empire, Year 1626 Double-page folio copper-plate engraving on laid paper, hand-colored, eight views of Turkish cities and ten examples of local dress along the edges; no text on verso; the sheet quite toned, 20 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. London, Year 1626.Provenance Private Collection, Amsterdam

Tabula Geographica Imperii Russici Generalis by J. Treskot U. J. Schmidt AT TC Lotter, Augsburgyear 1784 Engraved map with original hand-colouring, 3 plates assembled. total size 64: 140 cm. Reference: Bagrow / C. S. 210 with Teilabb. Figure 73. Tooley, Mapmakers IV, 123 (p) u. 289 (T.) and Lex. Kart. 599 (each EA mentioned). - Lotter issue for the first time in 1776, published by the St. Petersburg Academy overview map. Shows the area between North Cape / Venice u. The northern Aleutian Islands.Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Jacques de Lajque: an architectural capriccio First half 18th century. Drawing on paper, pencil, pen and ink and grey wash. A classical monument of obelisk form, surmounted by the three graces supporting an ewer. In passepartout and framed under glass. Drawing Size: 36.5 x 24cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Colonia Agrippina, Braun & Hogenberg's View of Koln Year 1572. A bird's-eye view of the city of Cologne. The plan clearly illustrates Cologne's large surface area and its characteristic semicircular ground plan fronting the Rhine. Thanks to the captions, the most important buildings can be easily identified. To the left of center the cathedral - the largest Gothic church in Germany, with towers 157 m in height - appears in distorted perspective. To its right lies the town hall described by Braun, together with the Alter Markt and the Heumarkt. Prominent in the lower half of the map is the Romanesque basilica of the Holy Apostles. Size 34 x 48.5 cm. (13.4 x 19.1 in.). Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Author/Mackinnon (J.P.) and Sydney The South African Campaign, 1879. A Memorial Volume, containing Sixty Permanent Cabinet Photographs of the Officers of the British Army and Navy who lost their Lives in the Zulu war in South Africa. 2 folding maps, 61 mounted photographic portraits, some very occasional light soiling to margins, bookplate, original cloth, gilt, preserving original backstrip, a little rubbed at extremities, printed 1880.Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Kok, Jacobus & Johannes Allart, Historical Encyclopedia of Holland, Year 1780-1796 Vaderlandsch-, Geschied-, Aardrijks- Geslacht- en Staatkundig Woordenboek, printed in Amsterdam 35 volumes in 18. Engraved frontispiece and additional illustrated title page in first volume; 126 engraved plates and portraits; 46 folding tables, 1 folding plan; 5 folding maps (4 hand-colored). (8vo) 21.5x12.5 cm. period full calf, spines gilt. Scarce and important encyclopedic work on Dutch history, topography, and genealogy. Published over a period of 16 years, the first 12 volumes by the author, the remainder by Johannes Allart. Maps include: Freisland, Gelderland, Groningen, Holland, & Zeeland. Provenance: Private Collection, Amsterdam

Vilhelm Kyhn (1819-1903) "Afternoon at Himmelbjerget". Anno:1877. Olio su tela. Dimensioni 35 x 48 cm. Firmato e datato ‘V. Kyhn 1877’. Era un maestro di Vilhelm Hammershoj e un pittore affermato di paesaggi.Questo è uno delle poche opere in cui il paesaggio ha anche una scena con figure, in questo case l'incontro tra una signora e un uomo. Cornice originale in oro. Provenienza: Collezione Privata, Germania.

"Afternoon at Himmelbjerget". Year 1877. Oil on canvas. Size 35 x 48 cm. Signed and dated ‘V. Kyhn 1877’. He was a teacher of Vilhelm Hammershoj, and an accomplished landscape painter. This is one of the few works where the landscape also has an attractive scene with figures, in this case an encounter between a lady and a man. Original gilded frame. Provenance: Private collection, Germany.