Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli

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Bartolomeo Rastrelli , falsely Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli , ( Russian Растрелли, Бартоломео Карло * 29. November 1675 in Florence , † November 18 . Jul / 29. November  1744 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was an Italian - Russian sculptor , art caster and architect .

Life

Rastrelli, son of the noble Francesco Rastrelli, received an artistic training, which included art and architectural drawing and art casting , in Florence from the sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini . In the absence of commissions, he went to Rome with his Spanish noble wife and then to Paris , where his son Bartolomeo Francesco Rastrelli was born in 1700 . In 1707 he completed the tomb for Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne (1618–1699), the minister of Louis XIV . The tomb was destroyed in 1792 or 1793. In Paris he was raised to the rank of Roman Count and Knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem . From then on he called himself Graf or Comte, signature "BC de Rastrelly", which was wrongly read as Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli . As a result of the emerging classicism , interest in Rastrelli's baroque tombs gradually waned .

In April 1715, Nikita Moissejewitsch Sotow conducted conversations with masters from France , including Rastrelli, on behalf of Peter I. Then in May 1715 he received an invitation from Jean Lefort, Peter's agent, to come to St. Petersburg with his son, so that he settled there in 1716. Two warehouses were built for him as a court artist, in which he made a triumphal column, a bust and a wax figure of Peter I. Here he also began work on the equestrian monument to Peter I, which Elisabeth had cast in bronze in 1747 and which was finally erected in front of Michael’s Castle in 1800 .

As an architect, Rastrelli was involved in the planning for the construction of the Strelna Palace of Peter I in 1716 . Work on the canals and the park began under Rastrelli's direction. However, after four months, Jean-Baptiste Alexandre Le Blond was commissioned with the project, so that the further work was carried out without Rastrelli.

Works

literature

Web links

Commons : Carlo Bartolomeo Rastrelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chronos: Растрелли Бартоломео Карло ( Memento from December 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on July 24, 2018).
  2. ↑ a b Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Растрелли Бартоломео Карло (accessed July 24, 2018).
  3. ↑ a b Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia: Rastrelli BC (1675–1744), sculptor (accessed July 27, 2018).
  4. ↑ a b Larissa Vasser: European court artists in St. Petersburg in the first half of the 18th century: sculptor Bartolomeo Carlo Rastrelli, painter Johann Gottfried Tannauer and Louis Caravaque. … Logos Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8325-3973-3 .
  5. ^ Sandro Lorenzatti: Paris: Saint Merry . In: Riuso e ricezione estetica del Marmor Carystium (Cipollino) di Leptis Magna in Francia tra XVII e XIX . 2016, p. 381 (Italian, Textarchiv - Internet Archive - With a description and a drawing of the tomb).
  6. ^ Julius Döring, Wilhelm Neumann: Rastrelli, Conte Bartolomeo Francesco . In: Lexicon of Baltic Artists . Jonck & Poliewsky, 1908, p. 121–122 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Rastrelli, Bartolomeo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rastrelli, Bartolomeo Comte de; Rastrelli, Bartolomeo Carlo (wrongly); Растрелли, Бартоломео Карло (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Russian sculptor, art caster and architect
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1675
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1744
Place of death St. Petersburg