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Brustolon's walnut, boxwood and ebony pieces transcend ordinary functional limitations of furniture; they are constructed of elaborately carved figures. The framework of
Brustolon's chairs, side tables and gueridons were carved as gnarled tree branches, with further supports of putti and moors carved
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and his contemporaries polished his style. Apart from that, the first phase of
Brustolon's working career was spent in Venice, 1680–1685. Brustolon is documented at several Venetian churches where he executed decorative carving in such profusion that he must have quickly assembled a large
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was a large side table and vase-stand of box and ebony, designed as a single ensemble to display rare imported
Japanese porcelain vases. The eclectic allegories include Hercules with the Hydra and Cerberus, moors and reclining river-gods (see ref.).
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Brustolon had many imitators working in his style, both contemporary, and later. The
Venetian sculptor Valentino Panciera Besarel (1829–1902) made upholstered armchairs in the Brustolon manner from the 1860s.
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In 1685 Brustolon returned to the house where he was born at
Belluno, and from that time devoted himself mainly to tabernacles and devotional sculptures in walnut, boxwood or ivory. His polychromed ivory
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Belluno, which preserves some of Brustolon's preparatory drawings for frames to be carved with putti displaying emblems. A pair of boxwood sculptures,
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