Bidspirit auction | (EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL). Synagogue Prayers,

(EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ITALIAN SCHOOL). Synagogue Prayers, Venice. Oil on panel. Two horizontal cracks reinforced on verso. 15 x 20 inches (36.5 x 53 cm). 18th-century: Provenance: Tefaf, Maastricht. Antichità Alberto di Castro, Rome. Depicts the interior of a Venetian Synagogue in which attending prayers are a group of gentlemen in European dress, with one in Oriental attire. Three rabbinic officiants hover, two of whom are poised on the raised Reader’s platform. The scene is complete with a large golden chandelier hovering overhead. The city of Venice hosted five synagogues, each known as ‘Scuola’ with the earliest dating back to 1528. Provenance: Tefaf, Maastricht. Antichità Alberto di Castro, Rome. Depicts the interior of a Venetian Synagogue in which attending prayers are a group of gentlemen in European dress, with one in Oriental attire. Three rabbinic officiants hover, two of whom are poised on the raised Reader’s platform. The scene is complete with a large golden chandelier hovering overhead. The city of Venice hosted five synagogues, each known as ‘Scuola’ with the earliest dating back to 1528.