Carlo di Cesare del Palagio

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Carlo di Cesare del Palagio (born January 25, 1538 in Florence , † August 22, 1598 in Italy ) was an Italian bronze caster , terracotta artist , modeler and sculptor .

Life

Angel , Mantua, Ducale Palace

Carlo di Cesare del Palagio was born in Florence on January 25, 1538. His father Cesare di Bartolomeo di Domenico provided artistic training with the Italian sculptor Jean Boulogne Giambologna and the Italian artist Giorgio Vasari . In 1560 he was an assistant to Master Giambologna. Five years later he was already working independently in preparation for the Florentine princely wedding, he arranged the decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio . From 1565 to 1571 he was a member of the Florentine Accademia del Disegno. He also worked at German royal courts. From 1569 to 1573 he created the stucco decoration for Hans Fugger's Augsburger Palais under the direction of Friedrich Sustris. From 1574 to 1579 he worked for the Bavarian heir to the throne, Duke Wilhelm V, who resided in Landshut , and created several bronze garden sculptures in the Munich residence. He also created the decoration on Trausnitz Castle above Landshut. From 1581 to 1585 he worked again with the Fuggers. Together with Hubert Gerhard he created the grave altar for Christoph Fugger with terracotta figures in the cedar hall of the Fugger Castle in Kirchheim / Swabia . In the Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra in Augsburg which formed Florentine 1,582 terracotta statues of Christ and the apostles. From 1585 to 1588 he worked under Friedrich Sustris on the new Munich residence of Duke Wilhelm V of Bavaria. By Giovanni Maria Nosseni he was in 1588 by Dresden brought and created important works of art in Saxony . He worked at the Dresden court from 1588 to 1591. He then returned to Bavaria and moved to Italy in 1597, where he died a short time later. His great merit is to have conveyed the modern styles of the Italian late Renaissance to Germany in the field of figurative and decorative sculpture in bronze and stucco.

Works in Saxony (selection)

literature

  • Bronze sculpture around 1600 in Munich. 1st T., in: Jb. D. Central inst. f. Art history 2, 1986, pp. 107-77, esp. Pp. 135-55.
  • H. Gerhard u. C. Pallago as a terracotta sculptor. ibid. 4, 1988, pp. 19-141.
  • M. Meine-Schawe, Giovanni Maria Nosseni, A Court Artist in Saxony, ibid., Pp. 283-325; dies., The burial place d. Wettiner in the cathedral z. Freiberg, The transformation d. Cathedral choirs by Giovanni Maria Nosseni 1585–94, 1992.
  • Dorothea Diemer:  Palagio, Carlo di Cesare del. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 8 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deutschefotothek.de : Deutsche Fotothek .
  2. ^ Dorothea Diemer:  Palagio, Carlo di Cesare del. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 8 f. ( Digitized version ).
personal data
SURNAME Palagio, Carlo di Cesare del
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cesare, Carlo de; Zeherin, Karl; Pellago, Carlo; Pelagi, Carlo; Palazzo, Carlo; Ballas, Carlo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1538
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH August 22, 1598
Place of death Italy