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Small Aedicula / ancona in wood, ivory and mother of pearl, AlesSaintdro Monteneri (Perugia 1832-1920). Inside wooden mosaic isometric wooden staircase depicting Enthroned Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John. Signed on the back AlesSaintdro Monteneri of Perugia and dated 1879. H 64 cm width 34 cm depth 10 cm "AlesSaintdro Monteneri known carver Perugia, touched hugely significant result, from a technical and executive profile, in the years when the style neo-RenaisSaintce historicist, especially in Italy, he met extraordinary vogue and saw the protagonists, national and international exhibitions, a large group of big names: the Cats of Faenza, the f.lli Falcini of Florence, the Gargiullo of Naples, Lancetti Siena. He participated in numerous exhibitions, including those of Florence (1861), London (1862), Vienna (1873) and Milan (1881) and worked at the Quirinal, the Vatican and many churches of Loreto, Mantova, Perugia and Urbino. In 1928 he realized, in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, the carved choir stalls, of the Calderini drawings. Estimated also a talented restorer, Monteneri reached its artistic peak with the creation of the "Stipo for the Crown of Italy", defined his masterpiece, commissioned by the Municipality of Perugia as a gift to be offered to Vittorio Emanuele II, now held in Florence at the Palazzo Pitti. In Exhibition in Milan, he wrote of him: "It is an artist who comes out from the crowd because of its value to the method used in his works which differs from that of other congeners artists because it used the inlay is not a veneer , a coloring surface coating, but rather an infinite amount of pieces of wood sawn divergently and then, in a vertical way together, gathered with skill and patience admirable. The Monteneri, with his system that caused him honors and awards at exhibitions in Florence, London, Dublin and Paris ..., as well as carry out the work by himself drawn, reproduced with rare perfection of the chief painters paintings, in which the fusion of colors mimics enough to fool the brush work, thus giving new art masterpieces of wooden mosaic ... ". The altarpiece inlay, guarded by the refined setting of a contemporary newsstands, mail operates in alternating committed wooden and ivory, shows a clear parallel with the altarpiece called Saintta Maria dei Fossi, now preserved in Perugia, in the Gallery National Umbria. The artistic ability of virtuosic Monteneri is seen in the reproduction of the Perugino painting of the Virgin enthroned, the Christ Child and Saint John, admirable in the central panel. The artist's intention, in fact, was to celebrate the Umbrian RenaisSaintce art, participating with this work Umbrian Exhibition, held in Perugia in 1879. "ASORstudio