Italian Baroque Style Wood Gesso Giltwood Sunburst Panel With Carved Eye of Providence

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Beautiful detailed Italian baroque style giltwood and painted wall hanging diamond shape framed sunburst panel.
The gilt sunburst is displayed … Read more Beautiful detailed Italian baroque style giltwood and painted wall hanging diamond shape framed sunburst panel.
The gilt sunburst is displayed on the white painted ground and surrounded with thin gilt frame.
Rich gold patina with the surface majorly shows the red bole under the gold leaf.
The center of sunburst, surrounded in gilt clouds the carved "Eye of Providence".
In late Renaissance European iconography, the Eye, surrounded by a triangle, was an explicit symbol of the Christian Holy Trinity. The Eye of Providence was later painted above an image of three faces in Pontormo's 1525 Supper at Emmaus.

Dimensions:26 in height x 26in width x 5 in depth
Wall hanging.
Strong body, Solid, patina, rubbing, minor losses and dents.
First half of the 20th century See less