Large Italian Baroque Solomonic Altar Column with Vine and Grape Carving, c.1650-1720A large and exceptionally carved Baroque Solomonic column dating to the late seventeenth century, or very early eighteenth century originating from a church altar structure in Northern Italy, circa 1650 1720. Columns such as this would originally have formed part of a retable the elaborate architectural framework that rises behind the altar in many Catholic churches. These dramatic structures framed paintings or sculptures of sacred figures, using