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Francesco Mochi was a prominent early Baroque Italian sculptor active mostly in Rome and Orvieto. He was born in 1580 in Montevarchi and died in 1654 in Rome. His early training was with the Mannerist Florentine painter Santi di Tito, and then with Camillo Mariani in Rome. He was a contemporary of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's father, Pietro, as well as later with the son. Adoration, by Peter Paul Rubens: dynamic figures spiral down around a void: draperies blow: a whirl of movement lit in a shaft of light, rendered in a free bravura handling of paint In arts, the Baroque (or baroque) is both a period and the style that dominated it. ...
Sculpture is a three-dimensional form created as an artistic expression. ...
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Mannerism is the usual English term for an approach to all the arts, particularly painting but not exclusive to it, a reaction to the High Renaissance, emerging after the Sack of Rome in 1527 shook Renaissance confidence, humanism and rationality to their foundations, and even Religion had split apart. ...
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A self portrait: Bernini is said to have used his own features in the David (below, left) Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680), who worked chiefly in Rome, was the pre-eminent baroque artist. ...
His first major work was the Annunciation of the Virgin by the Angel, composed of two statues (1603-1608, Duomo, Orvieto)(image of angel). It prefigures the baroque with its restrained emotiveness. He also made an equestrian statue of Ranuccio Farnese in Piazza Cavalli, Piacenza (1620-25). He carved the Christ Receiving Baptism (image) (1635 or later, Ponte Mello, Rome); Taddeus (1641-44, Orvieto), and Saints Peter and Paul at (1638-52, Porta del Popolo), and Saint Martha for the Barberini family chapel at Sant'Andrea della Valle (1609-1621). Ranuccio Farnese may refer to a number of members of the Farnese family: Ranuccio Farnese (b. ...
Piacenza (Piasëinsa in the Piacentine dialect) is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy, of approximately 104,000 inhabitants. ...
Saint Veronica in the Crossing of St Peter's Basilica
One of the four massive sculptures in the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica (review of statuary) the statue of the frantic Saint Veronica (image)displaying the by then lost Veil of Veronica (1629-40) is a masterpiece by Mochi. The others are statues by François Duquesnoy (Saint Andrew), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Saint Longinus), and Andrea Bolgi (St Helena). Francesco Mochi is an intermediary between the sober but contorting classicism and the emotive dynamism of Baroque. The febrile pitch of the Vatican Veronica seems to attempt to attempt to rush into the circle of dramatic setpieces as evidenced by the tortured Longinus. But the fervor detracts from the intent of the statue, unlike the other greater than life size statues at the four corners of the center crossing, this one appears frantic. Despite the difference in styles, the others exude the equanimity of passionate triumphal Catholicism, celebrated here in the center of the mother church. Mochi appears shrill in comparison. if he had been attempting to break into the new medium of Baroque style, he has overstepped in the effect. The Basilica of Saint Peter from Castel SantAngelo. ...
Veronicas veil, painting by Domenico Fetti (circa 1620). ...
François Duquesnoy (January 12, 1597 Brussels – July 12, 1643 Livorno) was a prominent Baroque sculptor in Rome, where he was called Il Fiammingo—though he was Walloon—, and François Flamand by the French. ...
A self portrait: Bernini is said to have used his own features in the David (below, left) Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Giovanni Lorenzo Bernini) (December 7, 1598 – November 28, 1680), who worked chiefly in Rome, was the pre-eminent baroque artist. ...
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