Antique fireplace made of yellow stone (called "gallina" stone) with fluted shoulders and a nobleman's face in high relief in the center of the beam.
The "gallina stone" was extracted for centuries from the quarries (now disused) of a small valley in the Veronese hills, called Val Gallina. Many buildings in Verona, including the most beautiful Romanesque churches, were built with this material.
Given the total absence of fossil sediments, it is a stone that is easy to work and docile to the chisel; for this reason, over the centuries, it has been widely used by sculptors for the creation of statues and refined ornaments.
Period: late 1700s
Origin: Verona
Maximum external dimensions: 228 cm x h 184 cm
Internal mouth dimensions: 163 cm x h 142 cm
