Old Master Paintings
9 December 2025
The Old Masters catalog features paintings, panels, and drawings from Italian and European schools, spanning the mature Renaissance, the Baroque, and the great seventeenth-century period. Among the most remarkable works is the extraordinary Susanna and the Elders by Mattia Preti (Lot 256), offered as an early youthful piece by the master and considered by scholars a key element for understanding the evolution of his Caravaggesque and Bolognese style. The plastic intensity, dramatic chiaroscuro, and emotional tension that permeate the scene fully convey the narrative power of Preti in the 1640s.
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13 October 2025
The charm of collecting and the art of Italian living take center stage once again with one of the most anticipated sales of the autumn season: “Italian Residences”, scheduled for October 21 and 22, 2025, at Castello Mackenzie in Genoa.
An event that celebrates the elegance of living through a refined selection of paintings, sculptures, furniture, works of art, and decorative objects from some of the most prestigious residences in Italy.
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12 May 2025
Cambi Auction House inaugurates a new and significant chapter in its history by bringing, for the first time, a selection exclusively dedicated to Old Master Art to its Milan headquarters. The "Fine Art Selection", scheduled for Wednesday, May 21 at 4:00 PM, marks a turning point in the city’s auction scene: a bridge between Milan’s established offering of modern, contemporary, and luxury art, and the great tradition of the historic Genoa location, long devoted to celebrating the artistic heritage of the past.
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12 December 2024
The auction dedicated to the great masters of ancient art features an exclusive selection of masterpieces reflecting the best of European painting between the Renaissance and Baroque periods.
Among the featured works is The Virtue Flogging Vice by Jacopo Robusti known as Tintoretto, created by the artist with the help of his collaborators between 1580 and 1588. This monumental canvas (193×233 cm), estimated between €40,000.00 and €50,000.00, is an outstanding example of Venetian teleri, large wall paintings conceived for prestigious public commissions.
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7 June 2024
On the same day as the auction dedicated to Old Masters, the Old Master Drawings catalog will also go up for auction: 132 lots with the likes of Francesco Salviati, Guercino, Domenico Beccafumi, Federico Zuccari, Canaletto and Guardi. Among them all is the watercolor on parchment Vanitas with books, hourglass, butterfly and shell by Jean François de La Motte (Tournai, 1635 - Tournai, 1685).
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31 May 2024
The date of the auction dedicated to Old Masters organized by Cambi Auction House is approaching. The new catalog offers a careful selection of paintings, the result of careful research work carried out by our experts and esteemed art historians. Among the most important works is a magnificent tempera on panel with a gold background depicting St. John the Evangelist.
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23 November 2023
In the prestigious Genoese venue of Castello Mackenzie, Cambi Auction House presents the exclusive Old Masters live auction, an extraordinary event and involving ancient paintings from different periods from important private collections. Works by Jan Brueghel the Elder and Ubaldo Gandolfi, Mario Nuzzi and Giambattista Tiepolo, as well as Gregorio De Ferrari, Giulio Cesare Procaccini, Gaspare Diziani and the School of Fontainebleau.
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19 June 2023
On Tuesday, June 27, in the prestigious Genoese headquarters of Castello Mackenzie, Cambi Auction House will present the exclusive live auction Old Masters, an extraordinary event involving works of ancient painting from different eras.
Among the most interesting lots, a still life with fruit basket and vanitas stands out (estimate 140.000 - 180.000 euros) created by an important artist of the first half of the seventeenth century known as the Master of the Acquavella still life.
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18 February 2016
The Call of Art
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We, Italians are lucky. We can ignore them for a lifetime; we can pass them without looking at them for years, but sooner or later that painting or that sculpture will tell us something, since works of art are this: inanimate objects like others but with the peculiarity and the urge to tell us […]
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