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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

Bird album

Anonymous

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The volume, by an anonymous author, ranks among the most interesting and significant examples of plumarian art of the sixteenth-seventeenth-century period: the album contains eighteen anonymous figures mostly belonging to local species, grouped in sixteen plates. The birds are made up of feathers glued to a paper template applied to a silk satin background of different shades, such as to bring out the colors of the specimen's livery in the best possible way. Unfortunately, the state of conservation of most of the specimens is very precarious due to the ancient action of moths and corroding organisms that have ruined or even removed most of the feathers. The reproduction of the specimens is generally very faithful both in the shape and size of the body, and in the arrangement of the feathers and in the characteristic attitude of the animal. Unlike other contemporary compositions, where the beak and limbs are the original parts treated adequately to be able to apply them on the sheet without excessive thickness, the birds depicted in this volume have limbs, beak and eyes painted in tempera. The current arrangement of the birds on an eighteenth-century silk satin background suggests that the album was reassembled and restored after 1766 and re-bound, probably reusing the old dark red Moroccan binding with the ducal coat of arms. The work was most likely present in the Grand Gallery library of Duke Carlo Emanuele I on the basis of the inventory of 1659.
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Title: Bird album

Author: Anonymous

Date: 1600 - 1630

Technique: Tempera on paper

Displayed in: Royal Museums Turin

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