FRIEZE. POLYCHROMED PINE WOOD. 16TH CENTURY.

Frieze with reliefs. Carved and polychrome pine wood. Century XVI. Rectangular frieze of carved, gilded and polychrome pine wood decorated with figurative reliefs. An architectural piece with a garland serves as the axis for the symmetrical composition, formed by horses turning their heads and biting a cloth and two children or wingless putti pulling this cloth, which ends in fruits, thus joining the ends with the center of the part. Both in the iconographic theme and in the anatomy, composition and colors you can see the influence of the Italian Renaissance with variations that may be due to being a Spanish creation. Compare, for example, the engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry from the Metropolitan Museum in New York dated between 1580 and 1600, or works by Paolo Farinati; and with Spanish creations such as carvings from the Ducal Palace of Pastrana (second half of the 16th century), works by Alonso de Covarrubias, the Renaissance doorway of the Asunción church in Beteta (Cuenca), etc.

· Size: 96x9x20 cms.