Large Italian Baroque Solomonic Altar Column with Vine and Grape Carving, c.1650-1720

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Large Italian Baroque Solomonic Altar Column with Vine and Grape Carving, c.1650-1720A large and exceptionally carved Baroque Solomonic column dating to the late seventeenth century, or very early eighteenth century originating from a church altar structure in Northern Italy, circa 1650 1720. Columns such as this would originally have formed part of a retable the elaborate architectural framework that rises behind the altar in many Catholic churches. These dramatic structures framed paintings or sculptures of sacred figures, using

the vessel becomes both subject and symbol: a record of the hand

The pair talk together as works of art

woodland garden or naturalistic landscape

His pale bright figure has a wonderful sculptural and luminous quality

soft blue-grey and touches of copper green

with his flowing Friars robes in which animals and birds are said to have sheltered

1815 by Royal Academy artist and sculptor Humphrey Hopper (1767-1844) with wonderful provenance from Harewood House

With many traces of original polychrome darkened and worn with time

The Art Deco movement was concerned with dynamism and sleekness

The period defining Flemish Baroque was defined by the 16th and 17th Centuries when the Spanish Hapsburgs ruled present-day Belgium

embodying the principles of astronomy and geometry

Painted in egg tempera and gesso