Antonio Corradini

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Time reveals the truth , around 1720 (?), Großer Garten , Dresden
Marriage of Maria and Joseph (detail of the wedding fountain ), around 1735, Hoher Markt, Vienna

Antonio Corradini (born October 19, 1688 in Venice , † August 12, 1752 in Naples ) was a Venetian Rococo sculptor.

Life

Corradini was born in Venice . Until around 1730 he worked mainly in the area of ​​the Republic of Venice, but he also received orders from outside; later he lived in Vienna , Rome and Naples.

In 1718 he was commissioned to erect a memorial for Count Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg , Marshal of the Venetian Armed Forces, on the island of Corfu . In 1720 he received payment for an altar of Blessed Hemma in the cathedral of Gurk in Carinthia . For the Venetian church of Santa Maria dei Carmini he created a sculpture of virginity in 1722-23 .

The “Lushness Vase” by Corradini is in the Great Garden in Dresden , there were other vases in the palace garden in the Japanese Palace , and there is also a Corradini vase in Sanssouci Park in Potsdam .

The imperial court in Vienna

Corradini received orders from the imperial court in Vienna, the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , for the wedding fountain on the Hoher Markt . On November 30, 1728, a free pass was issued “for the seven white marble statues that were to be ordered and brought to the newly built St. Josephi Wedding Columns in Venice ” . For the imperial church of St. He made allegorical figures for Charles Borromeo on the volutes at the sides of two altars.

Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral, tomb of John of Nepomuk

Tomb of John of Nepomuk , St. Vitus Cathedral , Prague

In the years after the beatification of John of Nepomuk (1721) his tomb was decorated even more splendidly. The celebrations on the occasion of the canonization of John of Nepomuk in 1729 brought such high donations that Emperor Charles VI. suggested building a new, triumphant tomb. The head of the imperial court buildings Gundaker von Althan was supposed to find suitable Viennese artists for it.

The design was provided by the court builder Joseph Emanuel Fischer von Erlach , while Antonio Corradini, who was in Vienna at the time and also created the large wooden model for the casting, made a model sculpture. The Viennese silversmith Johann Joseph Würth was commissioned with the execution. Corradini also designed the bronze reliefs on the base. In 1736 the work was not yet completed, after which local workers continued.

Imperial court sculptor

On May 24, 1732 he was appointed imperial court statuary with an annual salary of 1,500 gulden , plus 500 gulden housing allowance. In 1735 he designed the central statue of Emperor Karl VI. as Roman-German Emperor in the state room of the court library . In 1736 he was assigned to the honorable court service, also called in the court scheme.

In 1736 he designed a hunt theater with the architect and painter Antonio Galli-Bibiena and received a ten-year privilege to hold animal hunts.

On September 8, 1741, his wife Maria died in the Schottenhof at the age of 48 of dropsy . On January 26, 1743, the court granted him a longer vacation from Vienna.

From 1748 he was in Naples, where he for the Cappella Sansevero include the chastity created (Pudicizia); the "Christ covered with the shroud" in the same chapel was completed by his pupil Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720–1793).

Antonio Corradini died in Naples on June 29, 1752.

Statue gallery

  • The Schulenburg monument on Corfu , around 1718

  • veiled lady ( the purity  ?), 1722,
    Ca 'Rezzonico , Venice

  • Pietà , 1723–24,
    San Moisè , Venice

  • Charles VI , 1735,
    State Hall of the Court Library , Vienna

  • Veiled Lady (or Faith  ?), Louvre , Paris

literature

  • AEBrinckmann, Baroque sculpture, history of the development of sculpture from Michelangelo to the 18th century , Berlin 1917.
  • Jaromir Neumann, Das böhmische Barock , S 191f, German edition 1970.
  • Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 1: A – Da. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 (Corradini Antonio).
  • B. Cogo, Antonio Corradini scultore veneziano (1688-1752), Este 1996.
  • M. Klemenčič, Antonio Corradini: appunti e proposte, Artisti in viaggio 1600-1750: presenze foreste in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine 2005, pp. 289–304.
  • R. Deckers, The Testa velata in Baroque sculpture: on the meaning of veil and covering between mourning, allegory and sensuality. Munich, Hirmer: 2010. (Roman Studies of the Bibliotheca Hertziana; 27)
  • Rolf Legler: The Gulf of Naples, p. 135, Koeln: DuMont Buchverlag 1990, ISBN 3-7701-2254-2
  • Dehio manual
Art monuments in Vienna, II. To IX. and XX. District, (IV. District, Karlskirche) , Vienna 1993. ISBN 3-7031-0680-8
Art monuments in Vienna, 1st district-Innere Stadt , Vienna 2003. ISBN 3-85028-366-6
  • Herbert Haupt: The court and court-exempt craft in baroque Vienna 1620 to 1770 . Research and contributions to the history of the city of Vienna. No. 46. Studien-Verlag, Innsbruck, Vienna, Bozen 2007, ISBN 978-3-7065-4342-2 .

Web links

Commons : Antonio Corradini  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruno Cogo, Antonio Corradini scultore veneziano 1688-1752, Este 1996 (with older bibliography); Matej Klemenčič, Antonio Corradini: appunti e proposte, Artisti in viaggio 1600-1750: presenze foreste in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Udine 2005, p. 291 ( https://www.academia.edu/2765925/Antonio_Corradini_appunti_e_proposte_Artisti_in_viaggio_1600-1750_presenze_foreste_in_Friuli_Venezia_Giulia_atti_del_III_Convegno_Universita_di_Udine_Villa_Manin_di_Passariano_21-23_ottobre_2004_a_cura_di_Maria_Paola_Frattolin_Udine_2005_pp._289-304 )
  2. ↑ Paola Rossi: The Venetian sculpture in the 18th century , in: Venice - Art and Architecture , Vol. 2, Könemann, Cologne, 1997, 718–739, here: p. 729
personal data
SURNAME Corradini, Antonio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian imperial court sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1688
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 1752
Place of death Naples