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 NINE

THE ROCOCO

ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE - Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
PAINTING

ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE

GERMANY AND AUSTRIA

Georg Raphael Donner.

Georg Raphael Donner

Georg Raphael Donner, (born May 24, 1693, Esslingen, Austria�died Feb. 15, 1741, Vienna), sculptor whose works marked the transition from the Baroque to the Neoclassical style.

While studying for the priesthood in Heiligenkreutz, Donner met the sculptor Giovanni Giuliani and was encouraged to take up sculpture, working in Giuliani�s studio and later entering the Vienna Academy. He lived in Salzburg for some years, later returning to Vienna, where he produced his masterpiece, the Providence Fountain (1738�39) on the Neuer Markt. The figures originally cast in lead, a technique favoured by the artist, were replaced in 1873 by copies in bronze. Other Donner works are the Perseus and Andromeda Fountain in the courtyard of the Vienna Rathaus and a statue of Emperor Charles VI in the Belvedere Castle, Vienna. The refined form and clear outline of his sculpture contrasted with the exaggerated Baroque style of his contemporaries and predecessors and helped bring about a change in sculptural style.

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Georg Raphael Donner. Merkur
Georg Raphael Donner. Venus

Georg Raphael Donner. Adoring Angel
1733-35
Lead, height: 200 cm
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Georg Raphael Donner. Sybil
1736
Oak-wood, stained, height: 60 cm (without socle)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Georg Raphael Donner. Apostle
1736
Oak-wood, stained, height: 60 cm (without socle)
Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest

Georg Raphael Donner. Danube Well
1737-39
Lead-tin alloy, height: 337 cm
�sterreichische Galerie, Vienna

Georg Raphael Donner. Danube Well (detail)
1737-39
Lead
�sterreichische Galerie, Vienna

Georg Raphael Donner. Danube Well (detail)
1737-39
Lead-tin alloy, height: 337 cm
�sterreichische Galerie, Vienna

Georg Raphael Donner. Kasna na Mehlmarktu, Viden, 1737-38

Georg Raphael Donner. Danube Well (detail)
1737-39
Lead-tin alloy, height: 337 cm
�sterreichische Galerie, Vienna

Georg Raphael Donner. Pietà
1740-41
Lead, height 220 cm, width 280 cm
Cathedral, Gurk

Georg Raphael Donner. Saint Martin
1733-35
Lead, height: 275 cm
Cathedral, Bratislava

Georg Raphael Donner. Venus in Vulcan's Workshop
1730s
Lead, 63 x 93 cm
Sz�pm�v�szeti M�zeum, Budapest

Georg Raphael Donner. Apotheose Karl VI.

Georg Raphael Donner. The Consolation of Mary
after 1735
Gilded plaster, 44,5 x 58,5 cm
Dobó István Castle Museum, Eger

Georg Raphael Donner. Christ before Pilate
after 1735
Gilded plaster, 44,5 x 58,5 cm
Dobó István Castle Museum, Eger

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