Table

ca. 1847

Angiolo Falcini, Artist Luigi Falcini, Artist

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Era of Revolution, Level 3, South Wing

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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.

Title Table

Artwork Date ca. 1847

Makers Angiolo Falcini (Artist) Italian, 1801-1850 Luigi Falcini (Artist) Italian, 1794-1861

Medium Ebony, fruitwood and ivory veneer on wood carcass

Dimensions Overall: 30 11/16 × 45 11/16 × 30 7/8 inches (78 × 116 × 78.5 cm)

Classification Furniture

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 71.293

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(W. Apolloni. Rome, Italy)

1971-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

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.