History of Art: Architecture and Sculpture

Dictionary of Art and Artists

	History of Architecture and Sculpture


	CONTENTS:
	PART ONE THE ANCIENT WORLD PREHISTORIC ART EGYPTIAN ART ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART AEGEAN ART GREEK ART ETRUSCAN ART ROMAN ART EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ART PART TWO THE MIDDLE AGES EARLY MEDIEVAL ART ROMANESQUE ART GOTHIC ART PART THREE THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO LATE GOTHIC THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY MANNERISM AND OTHER TRENDS THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH THE BAROQUE IN ITALY AND SPAIN THE BAROQUE IN FLANDERS AND HOLLAND THE BAROQUE THE ROCOCO PART FOUR THE MODERN WORLD NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM REALISM AND IMPRESSIONISM POST-IMPRESSIONISM, SYMBOLISM, AND ART NOUVEAU PART FIVE TWENTIETH-CENTURY TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCULPTURE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE INDEX FIGURES

CHAPTER SIX

THE BAROQUE IN ITALY AND SPAIN

PAINTING
ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE - Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10,
11, 12, 13,14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26

ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE

Antonio Raggi.

(b Vico Morcote, nr Lugano, 1624; d Rome, 1 Aug 1686).

Italian sculptor and stuccoist. He arrived in Rome in 1645 and remained based there for the rest of his life. He initially joined the workshop of Alessandro Algardi, under whom he made three stucco reliefs for S Giovanni in Laterano. In 1647 he joined 38 other sculptors working under Gianlorenzo Bernini on decorations at St Peter’s. Over the next few years he established himself as Bernini’s most trusted assistant and chief collaborator in both marble and stucco, working from drawings and models supplied by the master. As such he completed the over-life-size marble group of Christ and Mary Magdalene Noli me tangere (1649) for the Alaleona Chapel of SS Domenico e Sisto and the colossal Danube (1650–51) in Bernini’s Four Rivers Fountain on the Piazza Navona, as well as visiting the Este court at Modena in 1653 to make from Bernini’s sketches terracotta models from which large-scale sculptures for the Palazzo Ducale at Sassuolo could be executed. He also collaborated with Bernini on the Cathedra Petri (1657–64) in St Peter’s and on the redecoration of S Maria del Popolo, where he contributed the stucco relief sculptures of SS Barbara, Catherine, Thecla and Apollonia (1655–7), as well as angels and putti.

Antonio Raggi. Angel with the Column
1668-69
Marble, over life-size
Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome

Antonio Raggi. The Death of St Cecilia
1660-67
Marble, height 310 cm
Sant'Agnese in Agone, Rome

Antonio Raggi. The Death of St Cecilia (detail)
1660-67
Marble
Sant'Agnese in Agone, Rome

Antonio Raggi. The Death of St Cecilia (detail)
1660-67
Marble
Sant'Agnese in Agone, Rome

Antonio Raggi. Stucco decoration
1662-65
Stucco
Sant'Andrea al Quirinale, Rome

Antonio Raggi. Noli me tangere

Antonio Raggi. Noli me tangere (detail)

Antonio Raggi. Baptism of Christ. San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome, Italy

Antonio Raggi. Baptism of Christ. San Giovanni dei Fiorentini, Rome, Italy (details)

Antonio Raggi. Santa Maria dei Miracoli. Rome, Lazio, Italy

Antonio Raggi. Basilica della Santa Casa. Loreto, Marche, Italy

Antonio Raggi. Cappella della Madonna del Voto. Siena Cathedral, Siena, Tuscany, Italy

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