Miquelet Fowling Gun
Italian School
1740/50
Medium
Steel, iron, silver, burl walnut, and maple
Dimensions
H.: 111.8 cm (44 in.)
Classification
firearm-long gun
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
219085
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Italian School · 1800–1899
The Italian School of the nineteenth century encompasses the diverse artistic output of painters, sculptors, and architects working across the Italian peninsula from 1800 to 1899, a period marked by profound political change including foreign occupations, the Risorgimento movement, and national unification in 1861. This era saw Italian art transition from Enlightenment ideals through Neoclassicism...