Lot 1648
AN IMPRESSIVE `SANSOVINO` PICTURE FRAME
16/17th Century, boldly decorated with carved and gilded leafy scrolls, swags of fruit, cornucopias of flowers, angel masks and winged female figures, regilded, poplar
To fit canvas 52.5 x 62.5cm. approx.; overall size 110 x 113cm.
* This type of picture frame, richly carved with scrolls and ornamented with masks and swags of fruit, is known as a Sansovino frame after the distinguished Italian sculptor and architect Jacopo Sansovino (1486-1570). Sansovino's designs, especially in Venice, were particularly influential during the rise of Mannerism and the Baroque style in Italian art.
