Giovanni Battista Carlone (plasterer)
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Giovanni Battista Carlone (* between 1640 and 1642 in Scaria ; † between 1718 and 1721 in Scaria) was an Italian plasterer and sculptor from the Carlone family of artists . He should not be confused with the architect of the same name (1580 / 90–1645) or the painter of the same name .
Life
The son of the master builder Pietro Francesco Carlone and Giulia Orsolini and brother of Carlo Antonio Carlone can be traced back to Upper Styria from 1673. Since 1677 he was in charge, presumably introduced by his father in Passau , and following an activity in the construction of the Jesuit church St. Michael, he was in charge of the stucco decoration of the newly built Passau Cathedral since 1668 . The high artistic status of the Baroqueization of Passau Cathedral results from the close collaboration between Carlone and the cathedral builder Carlo Lurago , both of whom came from the Upper Italian Intelvi Valley . Carlone worked in Passau for 18 years, as well as in Austria and the Upper Palatinate. He signed 13 contracts in which he undertook to design the interior of the Passau Cathedral.
In the spring of 1682 he began as principal with the stuccoing of the collegiate church of Garsten Abbey , which had been built by his brother according to his father's plans since 1679.
In 1683 Carlone made the two monumental stucco figures of the diocesan saints Valentin and Maximilian for the choir of Passau Cathedral . The huge transept altars (the northern one in 1685, the southern one in 1687/88) were completed during the reign of the Passau Prince-Bishop Sebastian Graf von Pötting. Between 1690 and 1695 the side altars followed in the nave chapels, which contribute significantly to the overall decoration of the cathedral.
On August 26, 1689, the new Passau prince-bishop Johann Philipp von Lamberg mentioned him in a letter to the provost of Stift Reichersberg and brought him back to Passau, where he was employed most of the time. From 1696 he worked in the Upper Palatinate and large parts of Bavaria. The style of high baroque stucco decoration he influenced is known as "carlonesk". This prefers heavy, figural and vegetal components worked in strong relief with cornucopia, bunches of fruit and cherub heads in mostly white stone color.
Carlone was married to Taddea Maddalena de Allio. He is the father of the plasterer Diego Francesco Carlone (1674–1750) and the painter Carlo Innocenzo Carlone (1686–1775).
On February 4, 1708 he gave his will to the Fiscal of Lugano. It is not known if it was the last.
Works
- Stucco decoration of the Jesuit church St. Michael , Passau (1675–1677)
- Stucco decoration of Passau Cathedral (1677–1695)
- Stucco decoration of the monastery church, sacristy of today's Garsten parish church and in the summer choir of Garsten Abbey, Upper Austria (1682–1687), also in 1687 vaulted stucco and stucco altar of the Losensteiner chapel
- Stucco of the monastery church of St. Andreas and the house chapel of the Benedictine monastery Gleink built in 1684
- Stuccoing of the choir and high altar of the Gartlberg pilgrimage church in Pfarrkirchen , Lower Bavaria (1688/89), together with Giovanni Paolo d'Allio
- Stucco altars in the castle chapel of the Holy Guardian Angel in Marbach (municipality of Ried in der Riedmark , 1690)
- Decoration of several halls by Reichersberg Abbey (1689–94)
- Stucco in the abbey room of Schlägl Abbey (1693)
- Stucco in the church and chapel of Schlierbach Abbey (around 1684/85, attributed)
- Stucco in the Agidius Church (1690) and in the rectory (attributed to) by Vöcklabruck
- Stucco of the church and sacristy of Waldsassen Abbey (1695–98)
- Equipment of the Salesian Church in Amberg (1696/99, no longer available)
- Stucco of the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf in Amberg (1702-07)
- Stucco in the side chapels of the parish church St. Johannes in Dingolfing (destroyed in the course of the regotization after 1867)
- Stucco in the pilgrimage church Frauenberg an der Enns and in some halls of the attached Superiorate.
Remarks
- ↑ Date and place of death according to Franco Cavarocchi: Die Passauer Domkünstler from the Intelvital , see literature. Cavarocchhi also mentions the will from 1708. Art-Platform (see web links) names the year 1707 and Passau as the date and place of death; AKL 1721 in Passau.
- ↑ Michael Brix: Passau. Pp. 498 and 501.
- ↑ Michael Brix: Passau. P. 504.
literature
- Hans Tietze : Carlone, Giovanni Battista . In: Ulrich Thieme (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists from Antiquity to the Present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 6 : Carlini-Cioci . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1912, p. 8 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
- Ursula Röhlig: Carlone, Giovanni Battista. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 143 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Franco Cavarocchi: The Passau cathedral artists from the Intelvital. In: The Passau Cathedral. Festschrift, Passau 1980.
- Michael Brix: Passau . In: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Bavaria II: Lower Bavaria. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-422-03007-7 .
- Petra Grove: Carlone, Giovanni Battista . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 16, Saur, Munich a. a. 1997, ISBN 3-598-22756-6 , p. 441.
Web links
- Biography at art-platform.com (with the indication "1707 he dies in Passau.")
- Entry about Giovanni Battista Carlone on Artisti Italiani in Austria , a project of the University of Innsbruck
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Carlone, Giovanni Battista |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian plasterer and sculptor |
DATE OF BIRTH | between 1640 and 1642 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Scaria |
DATE OF DEATH | 1707 or between 1718 and 1721 |
Place of death | Passau or Scaria |