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

Orazio Marinali.

(b Angarano, 24 Feb 1643; d Vicenza, 7 April 1720).

The most celebrated member of the family, he trained in Venice with Josse de Corte, the leading sculptor in the city at that time, whose dramatic power and feeling for chiaroscural effects Orazio adopted. De Corte’s influence is to be found most clearly in Orazio’s early works, such as the marble statues of the Virgin and Child with SS Dominic and Catherine (1679), made for the altar of the Rosary in S Nicolò, Treviso, and the Virgin and Child with Saints, Angels and Putti, made for the cathedral in Bassano del Grappa. Orazio became a prolific sculptor of religious works, and he was active in towns throughout the Veneto. Most of his works are initialled ‘O.M.’. Although he collaborated with his brother Angelo on numerous occasions, Orazio remained the dominant partner. In 1681, for example, the city of Bassano del Grappa commissioned from both Marinali brothers the statue of St Bassano, the city’s patron saint, for the main square (in situ). One of Orazio’s own particularly successful projects was his decoration for the church of S Maria di Monte Berico, Vicenza, executed between 1690 and 1703. Here he provided numerous imposing statues of saints and reliefs in pietra tenera (a soft limestone from near Taranto) for the exterior and stucco figures of four prophets and marble Holy Water stoups for the interior. In 1704 he completed the high altar of S Giuliano, Vicenza, with marble figures of the Risen Christ with Saints. Nearly all the sculptures there are signed by him. He later (1715–17) executed the marble figures of the Guardian Angel and the Angel Gabriel for the altar of SS Sacramento in S Giovanni Battista, Bassano.

Orazio Marinali. Christ as the Man of Sorrows

Orazio Marinali. Old Man
c. 1710
Marble
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

Orazio Marinali. Boy in a Hat
c. 1710
Marble
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

Orazio Marinali. Bravo
c. 1710
Marble, height c. 58 cm
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

Orazio Marinali. A Cutthroat
1690s
Marble
Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice

Orazio Marinali. Jupiter and Antiope, 1690s
Marble. H. 33 cm
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Orazio Marinali. A Young Man

Orazio Marinali. Statue of a saint
Museo Civico, Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Orazio Marinali. Statue.
Basilica di Monte Berico. Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Orazio Marinali.
Basilica di Monte Berico. Vicenza, Veneto, Italy

Orazio Marinali. Statue of Alexander VIII
Ospedale Military, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

Orazio Marinali. Alexander VIII
Duomo Vecchio, Brescia, Lombardy, Italy

Orazio Marinali. Mary Altar
The Oratory, Brompton Road, South Kensington, London, England

Orazio Marinali. Statue.
Mary Altar
The Oratory, Brompton Road, South Kensington, London, England

Orazio Marinali. Old Man

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