Domenicus Morelli

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Church in Feldsberg , then Lower Austria now the Czech Republic

Domenicus Morelli (* around 1627 in Riva San Vitale , † 21st February 1662 in Kaisersteinbruch , Hungary , now Burgenland ) was a Swiss master stonemason and sculptor of the Baroque .

The imperial quarry on Leithaberg was a central meeting point for Swiss-Italian construction professionals in the Holy Roman Empire .

Live and act

The apprentice Domenicus was acquitted in 1645 by the Kaisersteinbruch master Ambrosius Regondi as a journeyman and became a brother. His further path led him to the imperial court sculptor Pietro Maino Maderno , who worked for Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein at Feldsberg Castle .

April 18, 1654
Prince Liechtenstein commissioned Morelli in the church in Feldsberg “to make seven altars with white, red and black marble stones , as well as the balustrades of red and black marble for every altar by means of Giovanni Pietro Tencalla demolition, furthermore he should make a gate and ten doors, as well to make the plaster of 205 1 ⁄ 2   fathoms of red and white marble and repair the damage caused by the collapse of the dome ”. Karl Eusebius promised to take over the cost of the stones and the transport himself and to pay the stonemason 1,600 guilders for his work.
January 6, 1656
“… More to which stonemasons Domenicus Morelli and Giovanni Pietro Salvi, from 1654 to January 6, 1656 give 875 guilders in discount for their work”.
1657
... the stonemason master Domenico Morelli, who works at the Feldsberg parish church, is informed that the prince “anjezo cannot promote the craftsmen with money because of other large expenses, so as your princely graces had previously ordered him to stop work and nothing more should. "The prince will have him called again on occasion ...
April 23, 1658
Payment to craftsmen, ... the Domenico Morelli, stonemason 100  fl.

In October 1660 he asked the prince to be allowed to travel over the winter to his family, whom he had not seen for eight years and of whom he had no news at all. “Here he is useless, he did the stone carving up to the breaking of the marble stones near Lilienfeld in Lower Austria. finished and made for the high altar . But he wants to come back at Easter and bring his son with him so that he can learn from him ”. The trip was not granted to the Morelli ...

Finally he was awarded 2,090 florins for his church work, while he received twenty florins too much, that had to remain open because “he unexpectedly proceeded to the imperial quarry not far from Vienna” (on February 21, 1662) “death”.

Archival material

literature

  • Victor Fleischer : Prince Karl Eusebius von Liechtenstein as builder and art collector (1611–1684) . Vienna and Leipzig 1910.
  • Herbert Haupt: From passion to beauty. Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein 1611–1684, source volume . Böhlau, Vienna 1998.
  • Herbert Haupt: Prince Karl Eusebius of Liechtenstein 1611–1684 . Prestel, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7913-3341-0 .
  • Helmuth Furch : The masters of an honorable craft of stonemasons and masons in the kayserl. Quarry on Leythaberg . In: Messages from the Kaisersteinbruch Museum and Culture Association . Part 1: No. 28 (1993) and Part 2: No. 30 (1994) ISBN 978-3-9504555-3-3 . Museum and cultural association Kaisersteinbruch, Kaisersteinbruch.
  • Helmuth Furch: Historical Lexicon Kaisersteinbruch . Museum and Culture Association Kaisersteinbruch, Kaisersteinbruch (2002-2004. ISBN 978-3-9504555-8-8 .).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ one year after Maderno's death
  2. ↑ Victor Fleischer: Prince Karl Eusebius… Note I, 22 f .: In: Herbert Haupt: From passion to beauty.
  3. ↑ Liechtenstein Archive No. 1106
  4. ↑ Victor Fleischer: Prince Karl Eusebius… Note I, 23. In Herbert Haupt: From passion to beauty.
personal data
SURNAME Morelli, Domenicus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss master stonemason and baroque sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH around 1627
PLACE OF BIRTH Riva San Vitale
DATE OF DEATH February 21, 1662
Place of death Kaisersteinbruch