About the Artwork
Leonardo van der Vinne specialized in elaborate, colorful marquetries of precious woods and ivory, often in combination with inlaid hardstones (pietre dure). His marquetry decorations depict naturalistic flowers and birds inspired by the Dutch and Flemish flower paintings that had been popular since the beginning of the seventeenth century. This table, bearing the Medici coat of arms on the stretcher, belongs to a set of four, presumably ordered by the Medici Grand Duke Cosimo III for the Accademia degli Uffizi around 1667. Van der Vinne worked for most of his career at the Florentine Grand Ducal workshops, a state manufactory founded in the sixteenth century to supply luxury furnishings to the Medici court. By the end of the seventeenth century, extravagantly detailed pieces such as this table had become an essential feature in princely interiors throughout baroque Europe.
Table
ca. 1847
Angiolo Falcini (Artist) Italian, 1801-1850 Luigi Falcini (Artist) Italian, 1794-1861
Ebony, fruitwood and ivory veneer on wood carcass
Overall: 30 11/16 × 45 11/16 × 30 7/8 inches (78 × 116 × 78.5 cm)
Furniture
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund
71.293
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Provenance
(W. Apolloni. Rome, Italy)
1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Cummings, F. "Department of European Art." Bulletin of the DIA: Annual Report 51, no. 1 (1971): pp. 12-14.
Twilight of the Medici. Exh. cat.,Detroit Institute of Arts and Palazzo Pitti. Detroit and Florence, 1974, p. 390, no. 222b (ill.), p. 391, cf. 222a. [as Leonardo van der Vinne.]
Gonzalez-Palacios, Alvar. "A Grand-Ducal Table." Bulletin of the DIA 55, no. 4 (1977): pp. 168-181, p. 168 (ill.), cover (color ill.).
"Family Art Game," DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News/Detroit Free Press, April 18, 1982, p. 22 (ill.).
Laskin, Jr., Myron and Michael Pantazzi, eds. Catalogue of the National Gallery of Canada Ottawa: European and American Painting, Sculpture and Decorative Arts, vol 1. Ottawa, 1987, p. 332–333.
González-Palacios, A. "Trionfi barocchi a Firenze," pp. 31-33 in I Mobili di Palazzo Pitti. Il periodo dei Medici, 1537-1737. Florence, 1992, pp. 31-33.
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Luigi Falcini; Angiolo Falcini, Table, ca. 1847, ebony, fruitwood and ivory veneer on wood carcass. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund, 71.293.
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