Great tour fan typically neo-classic in kid skin painted at gouaches. The central scene represents a copy of a fresco discovered in 1777 at Villa Negroni in rome. The architect Camillo Buti had already painted this subject, signing it, as S. Mayor reports ( fans Guide for the collector, Silvana editions, Milan 1980) at page 40, another piece very similar as composition of the page divided in shaped panels, it has been sold by auction at the end of 80’s. The views of the lateral panels seem to be symmetrical with the same roman ruins seen from 2 different angulations, in the background hilly landscapes (Albani hills?); all this surmounted by a couple of hyppogriffs (that in the heraldic language mainly in England, are called opinicus because they have the anterior legs as those ones of a lion), a boccaro and a dove. Of very good execution the motives at grotesque that separate the scenes above described. The sticks in pearl damascened in gold and silver they are clearly of oriental India workmanship.
"Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail."
Leonardo Da Vinci
