Sansovino frame with cherubs

The Sansovino type frame is to be classified among the most famous types of the sixteenth century.
It is present in Veneto(Italy) from the second half of the sixteenth century, and is characterized by an exuberance of decorative motifs, taken from classical antiquity, such as: volutes, capitals, festoons, cherub heads and partially overlapping cartouches, which give rise to a rich and sumptuous complex.
 
This type of frame is universally attributed to the Venetian school, and there is no doubt that it was precisely in the lagoon city that it was developed and brought to the most significant forms by the artists and artisans, who operated in the context of the sculptor and architect Jacopo Tatti, known as Sansovino, who, born and lived in Tuscany, worked for a long time in Venice, where he moved in 1527, to create the façade of the Library of San Marco, some plastic decorations that are found in Venetian furniture, but not only in the furniture, of the following decades .