Virtual Tours of Architecture ...........Furniture - Baroque style........ Illustrated FURNITURE Glossary

Central Italian Baroque organ
1670-1770
On display in the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in 2006
Memorial Art Gallery - Official Home Page



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17th century Baroque style

Note inlaid marble Italian (1745) pair of altar rails.

Crest and broken pediment : gilded and painted with C scrolls and acanthus leaves

Case: wood, polychromy, golf leaf

Pipes: tin and lead alloys, wood

Note gilded C scrolls and pendent bellflowers



Photos and their arrangement © 2006 Chuck LaChiusa
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