Antique WALNUT shadowbox frame 14.5x17 for 11x14 VILLA MEDICI ITALY LITHO PRINT

Antique WALNUT shadowbox frame 14.5x17 for 11x14 VILLA MEDICI ITALY LITHO PRINT (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

Antique WALNUT shadowbox frame 14.5x17 for 11x14 VILLA MEDICI ITALY LITHO PRINT (image 4/[null, null, null, null])

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Antique WALNUT shadowbox frame 14.5x17 for 11x14 VILLA MEDICI ITALY LITHO PRINTBeautiful Victorian Walnut deep profile (2.5") shadowbox frame holds an 11" x 14" print or photo. It comes with the Villa Medicis Chromolithograph matted print as shown. Villa Medicis Print image area is 8.5" x 5.5". This is an actual antique frame made in the Victorian era with original square head nails (there are also some round head nails here and there for re-enforcement. Frame is straight and the mitered corners are tight. Wood is in very good antique shape with a bit of wear to the finish at the corners as shown. Gilt inner 11" x 14" mounted frame could be touched up a bit or repainted. I believe the original glass has been replaced at some point. Nice aged patina on the cherrywood finish.About the Villa Medicis from Wikipedia:The Villa Medici ( Italian pronunciation: [ˌvilːa ˈmɛːditʃi] ) is a Mannerist [1] villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens , on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome , Italy . The Villa Medici, founded by Ferdinando I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and now property of the French State has housed the French Academy in Rome since 1803. A musical evocation of its garden fountains features in Ottorino Respighi 's Fontane di Roma .In ancient times, the site of the Villa Medici was part of the gardens of Lucullus , which passed into the hands of the Imperial family with Messalina , who was murdered in the villa.In 1564, when the nephews of Cardinal Giovanni Ricci of Montepulciano acquired the property, it had long been abandoned to viticulture . The sole dwelling was the Casina of Cardinale Marcello Crescenzi , who had maintained a vineyard here and had begun improvements to the villa under the direction of the Florentine Nanni Lippi , who had died however, before work had proceeded far. The new proprietors commissioned Annibale Lippi , the late architect's son, to continue work. Interventions by Michelangelo are a tradition.In 1576, the property was acquired by Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici , who finished the structure to designs by Bartolomeo Ammanati . The Villa Medici became at once the first among Medici properties in Rome, intended to give concrete expression to the ascendancy of the Medici among Italian princes and assert their permanent presence in Rome. Under the Cardinal's insistence, Ammanati incorporated into the design Roman bas-reliefs and statues that were coming to sight with almost every spadeful of earth, with the result that the facades of the Villa Medici, as it now was, became a virtual open-air museum. A series of grand gardens recalled the botanical gardens created at Pisa and at Florence by the Cardinal's father Cosimo I de' Medici , sheltered in plantations of pines, cypresses and oaks. Ferdinando de' Medici had a studiolo, a retreat for study and contemplation, built to the north east of the garden above the Aurelian wall. Now these rooms look onto Borghese gardens but would then have had views over the Roman countryside. These two rooms were only uncovered in 1985 by the restorer Geraldine Albers: the concealing whitewash had protected and conserved the superb fresco decoration carried out by Jacopo Zucchi 1576 and 1577.The villa's Loggia dei leoni , including copies of the original Medici lionsAmong the striking assemblage of Roman sculptures in the villa were some one hundred seventy pieces bought from two Roman collections that had come together through marriage, the Capranica and the della Valle collections. [2] An engraving detailing the arrangement of statues prior to 1562 was documented by Galassi Alghisi . [3] Three works that arrived at the Villa Medici under Cardinal Fernando, ranked with the most famous in the city: the Niobe Group and the Wrestlers , both discovered in 1583 and immediately purchased by Cardinal Ferdinando, and the Arrotino . When the Cardinal succeeded as Grand Duke of Tuscany in 1587, his elder brother having died, he satisfied himself with plaster copies of... read more

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