Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs black and silver And certainly it seems ready

And certainly it seems ready to serve as a welcoming roost now

And the painterly glazing--yellow with some drippy green and purple-gray--is just right

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And a pink satin underside

Curious Old Italian Opera Painting on Wood Panel with Carved Cherubs black and silver And certainly it seems readyA curious one, at least to me, which I understand from the seller would have been made for an Italian opera theatre, portraying a bit of the action and hung outside the theater as signage of sorts. It seems to me that the painting which has some of the feel (and drama!) of an ex voto retablo to me, and also a telenovela! was painted on a very old wooden panel, salvaged from something else, in the top corners of which (my favorite thing, best seen in