Domenico Guidi
Domenico Guidi (* 1625 in Carrara , † March 28, 1701 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor .
Life
From Carrara, Guidi followed his uncle, the famous sculptor Giuliano Finelli , to Naples . As the nephew of an artist who feuded with Bernini , Guidi was never employed by the great master. Instead, after he fled Naples in 1647 during Tommaso Masaniello's uprising, he joined the studio of Alessandro Algardis . He worked there with another student, Ercole Ferrata , on various projects, for example on the unfinished work Vision of Saint Nicholas by his master, completed in 1655.
After Algardi's death in 1654, Guidi was independent and set up his own workshop. Compared to other artists in the big studios, he was extremely productive and developed into an enterprising entrepreneur who received orders from all over Italy, but also from Germany, France and even Malta. One of the angels for the Ponte Sant'Angelo was the only work he did for Bernini at this time; he probably wanted to differentiate himself from the big competitor. In fact, after the deaths of Bernini, Ercole Ferrata and Antonio Raggi , Guidi rose to become the most important sculptor in Rome. By advocating Charles Lebrun, he also gave French sculptors a growing influence.
Guidi's outstanding works include, for example, the monument to Natale Rondinini in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo (1657) and the relief above the altar of the Capella di Monte di Pieta (1667–76), which depicts a lamentation of Christ . Like his teacher Algardi, Guidi had great design skills; his figures show the classic forms of emotional expression, but appear uninspired compared to his master. Its reliefs are said to have a lack of spatial depth.
literature
- Rudolf Wittkower : Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 . Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1980, ISBN 0-14-056116-1 , pp. 312-314.
- Bruce Boucher: Italian Baroque Sculpture , World of Art. Thames & Hudson, London 1998, ISBN 978-0-500-20307-1 , p. 155.
- Rolf Toman (editor): Baroque - architecture, sculpture, painting . Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-89508-916-8 , p. 297.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guidi, Domenico |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1625 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Carrara |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 28, 1701 |
| Place of death | Rome |