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Maurizio Nobile at the Florence 2022 International Antiques Biennial (BIAF): present with portraits and works from the 500s to the 900s

On the occasion of the XXXII edition of the BIAF (Biennale Internazionale d'Antiquariato) in Florence, scheduled from 24 September to 2 October 2022, the Maurizio Nobile Fine Art gallery will offer a selection of fine paintings and sculptures

Maurizio Nobile at the Florence 2022 International Antiques Biennial (BIAF): present with portraits and works from the 500s to the 900s

Maurice Noble will be present at the International Biennial of Antiques with a series of Italian masterpieces from the sixteenth to the twentieth century (Leandro Bassano, Domenico Fetti, Bartolomeo Passerotti) and others by foreign authors, such as the Flemish Jacob Ferdinand Voet, present with the work portraying Cardinal Buonaccorso Buonaccorsi dated around 1673, in " emperor's cloth”.

Jacob Ferdinand Voet (Antwerp 1639 – Paris 1689) Portrait of Cardinal Buonaccorso Buonaccorsi c. 1673 oil on canvas, 134,5 x 97,3 cm

We remember him for having portrayed a whole series of cardinals including the portrait of Wilhelm von Fürstenberg (Herdringen, Fürstenberg collection), cardinals Francesco Nerli junior (formerly Los Angeles, County Museum), Giulio Spinola (Houston, The Museum of Fine Art) and Pierre de Bonzy (Rome Palazzo Sacchetti).

The Works of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglioni known as Grechetto at BIAF 2022

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione known as il Grechetto (Genoa, 1609-Mantua, 1664), Drunken Bacchus with a leopard, oil on canvas, 29,8 x 86 cm

One room will host important paintings, some of which real finds, such as the refined Berenice by Michele Desubleo, two curious canvases by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglioni said Grechetto and a rare fragment in terracotta by Niccolò dell'Arca portraying the Madonna with child.

Niccolò dell'Arca (c. 1435 – 1494) Fragment of Madonna and Child, c. 1460. Terracotta, 36,7 x 28,8 cm (profile)


The stand of the Maurizio Nobile Fine Art, located in the princely hall on the noble floor of the seventeenth-century Palazzo Corsini, will welcome visitors to the fair through an evocative setting capable not only of enhancing the quality of the individual works on display, but also of suggestively placing them in a timeless dialogue

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