Antique Italian Realism Verismo Oil on Canvas Painting Female Nude Ex-Christie's by Antonio Mancini, 1890 Drawings & Prints housed in the top of

housed in the top of the clock case

The bookcase in two sections

coral and mother of pearl

The painting is beautifully rendered on a copper panel and depicts Jesus with a gilded halo & wearing a blue robe whilst carrying a walking staff

Antique Italian Realism Verismo Oil on Canvas Painting Female Nude Ex-Christie's by Antonio Mancini, 1890 Drawings & Prints housed in the top ofAn important Italian Verismo (Italian Realism) oil on canvas painting, an interior setting with a beautiful nude young woman, by Antonio Mancini (1852 1930), circa 1890. Mancini was a pivotal and a highly unconventional Italian painter who worked at the absolute forefront of the Verismo movement, which was a late 19th century realism painting style. Verismo rejected the romanticized, polished history paintings taught at the Italian academies. Verismo