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Madonna and Child
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Parade plaque of Henry II of France
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Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
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Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album
Red Cloud
Portrait of Charles II of Savoy known as the Good
Lamentation over the dead Christ
Madonna and Child
The children of Charles I of England
Madonna and Child with Six Saints
The archangel Gabriel and Tobias
Bas-relief with a garland of flowers and fruit
Madonna and Child
The three archangels and Tobias
the return of the prodigal son
Portrait of a Gentlewoman
Madonna and Child
Trinity
Stigmata of St. Francis
The vanity of human life
Portrait of an Old Man
Annunciation
Venus
Bust of Minerva
Bust - manly portrait
Psykter di Euthymides
Plate decorated with ribbons and nets
Canteen bowl
Ingot Blade Kit
Landscape relief known as of Polyphemus and Galatea
Colombine ointment
Signpost
Fibulae with disc bracket
Portrait of Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy
Madona with Child
Story of Aeneas and Dido
The family of Vittorio Amedeo di Savoia
Holy family with San Giovannino
The Sacra di San Michele
The thirst suffered by the first crusaders under Jerusalem
Table tureen
Rotisserie
Coffee cup
Kanjar (pug)
Japanese armor of the Do-Maru type
Parade plaque of Henry II of France
Corsaletto
Horse headboard
Portrait of a young girl
Self portrait
Male head
Naked young man next to an old oriental dress
Young man study
Pisces album
Fish album
Fish album
Bird album
Flower album

Fish album

Anonymous

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The volume, probably set up at the beginning of the seventeenth century, contains seventy-five plates concerning almost exclusively marine, freshwater or Mediterranean coastal animals: Fish, Reptiles, Mammals, Crustaceans, Molluscs and Echinoderms. The organisms represented, sometimes more than one per panel, with rare repetitions, are very numerous and the large drawings are done in tempera on a cardboard cut out and glued to the album sheets. The drawings tend to reproduce the original dimensions of the species for which the sheets have in many cases been folded several times on themselves to reduce their excessive width (up to more than 3 meters). The artistic quality is generally good, although the designers, probably more than one, have often not reported important anatomical or chromatic details, useful for a certain identification of the species. The ittionimi used are mostly Nice, often accompanied by Portuguese names, partly still valid today. Except for two figures, representing a fantasy fish and a non-existent monk fish, all the illustrations refer to existing species. The reasons behind the creation of this volume are not clear, from which many of the banal species of fish, molluscs and crustaceans of the north-central Mediterranean Sea are missing, while the drawings of the Nile crocodile and the Uromastice refer beyond any reasonable doubt , to specimens present in the ducal collections of living animals. The work was most likely present in the library of the Grand Gallery of Duke Carlo Emanuele I of Savoy, based on the inventory of 1659.
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Title: Fish album

Author: Anonymous

Date: XVI - XVII sec.

Technique: Tempera on paper

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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