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Sold at Auction: Antonio Berini, BERINI ANTONIO (1770 - 1861) A sardonic cameo with profile of Mars, mounted on a brooch.
BERINI ANTONIO (1770 - 1861). A sardonic cameo with profile of Mars, mounted on a brooch.. Signed on the base of the neck Born in Rome and a pupil of Giovanni Pichler, Antonio Berini moved to Milan at a young age, where he worked for some important noble patrons of the city, including Count Giovanni Battista Sommariva. Of anti-monarchical nature, he was imprisoned in Milan in 1805 during the coronation of Napoleon as king of Italy, since, having made a cameo with the profile of the sovereign…
