Stipo a bambocci
Stipo a bambocci (plural: Stipi a bambocci ) describes a certain type of cabinet from the Renaissance in northern Italy with a front that can be closed by a plate. The construction wood is valuable walnut and walnut grain wood, e.g. Some of the specially imported Caucasian walnut .
Bambocci
The specialty of the Stipi a Bambocci are their chubby, small carved figures, which are unique in this way of attachment and execution in cabinets and chests of drawers . In some surviving specimens, the Bambocci figures stand in a context and together form an iconographic program, such as B. at the Stipo a Bambocci in Castello Sforzesco in Milan , where the expulsion of Adam and Eve from paradise is depicted.
Workshop
New research has identified a workshop that has invented and developed the new type of cabinet called the Stipo a Bambocci.
Dating and localization
The earliest Stipi a Bambocci appeared around or shortly after 1560 in Genoa / the province of Liguria . Shortly after their first appearance, the demand for these pieces began to grow and the artisanal production of other Stipi a Bambocci began. The end of the first decade of the 17th century (around 1608/09) also meant the end of the production of the Stipi a Bambocci.
Received pieces
Originally preserved pieces are very rare (<12 copies) and can only be found in important private collections and museums, such as the Museo Poldi Pezzoli , Bagatti-Valsecchi or Castello Sforzesco, all in Milan.
Stipo a Bambocci, private collection
Stipo a Bambocci from a Swiss private collection
Detail of Stipo a Bambocci 2
Stipo a Bambocci, Castello Sforzesco Milan
literature
- Wilhelm von Bode: The Italian house furniture of the Renaissance . Leipzig 1920.
- William Macdongal Odom: A history of Italian furniture . 2nd vol., O. O. 1966.