Small wooden "Ancona", ivory and nacre. Alessandro Monteneri (Perugia 1832-1920). ...

Small wooden "Ancona", ivory and nacre. Alessandro Monteneri (Perugia 1832-1920). Inside there is a wooden mosaic in a wooden scale depicting the Madonna enthroned with Child and Saint John. Signed on the back Alessandro Monteneri from Perugia and dated 1879. H cm 64. Width cm 34. Depth cm 10
"Alessandro Monteneri, a well-known master inlayers from Perugia, achieved great technical and executive results in the years in which the historicist neo-Renaissance style, especially in Italy, enjoyed extraordinary success and saw as a main characters, at the national and international exhibitions, a large group of big names: Gatti from Faenza, the Falcini brothers from Florence, the Gargiullo of Naples, the Lancetti from Siena.
He took part in several exhibitions: Florence (1861), London (1862), Vienna (1873) and Milan (1881) and worked at the Quirinale, in the Vatican and for numerous churches in Loreto, Mantua, Perugia and Urbino.
In 1928 he created, in the "Basilica di San Paolo fuori le mura" in Rome, the inlaid stalls of the choir, designed by Calderini.
Esteemed also skillful restorer, Monteneri reached the artistic peak with the realization of the "Stipo per la Corona d'Italia", defined as his masterpiece, commissioned by the City of Perugia as a gift to be offered to Victor Emmanuel II, now preserved in Florence, at Palazzo Pitti. ASORstudio