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Pair of Solomonic Columns

Giltwood and furniture

Pair of Solomonic Columns

Period
17th century
Medium
Carved and gilt wood
Reference
COLUNAS SALOMONICAS

A twisted shaft wound with vines and bunches of grapes, beneath a Corinthian capital. The Solomonic column, imported from Bernini's Rome, was the motif that organised Portuguese and Brazilian retables of the last quarter of the seventeenth century — the so-called national style.

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