By Vincenzo Cadorin
Located in Vigonza, Padua
This important chest of drowers, wardrobe, in solid walnut, is masterfully carved by hand by the great sculptor artist Vincenzo Cadorin and his Atelier performers: floral motifs and classic art nouveau shapes, carved and embossed
All original and functional key locks.
The mirror, original, has oxidations in the bevelled part, and, on request, we can apply a new mirror
The furniture has been treated with woodworm and we have covered the passive holes
Measures cm: H 225, W 135, D 55
About Cadorin Vincenzo (1854-1925)
Venetian sculptor born in 1854, he was trained in the studio of Benvenuti, he then studied at the Venetian Academy. In 1883 he exposed his first works in Rome and in the next year he won the Gold Medal in the exposure in Turin. (Luisa GIORDANO, Cadorin, Vincenzo, in Biographic Dictionary of the Italians, XVI, Rome 1973, p. 97). His most known work is the gilt carved wooden desk given to the Pope Pio X for his sacerdotal jubilee in 1908; the desk is now in the Basilica della Salute in Venice. He died in 1925.
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Category
Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Antique Martinelli Venezia Commodes and Chests of Drawers