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The presence and importance of the nymph in the late medieval and early modern art goes beyond the fashionable adaptation of a classicizing motif. None less than Aby Warburg (1866 – 1929) was the one who developed a passion for the godly girl, wandering to the bucolic springs and caves, whose name etymologically refers to a "bride". However, it isn't the iconographic afterlife of the nymph...
The paper discloses new facts about the initial period of reception of the well-known character heads, today titled as study heads, by sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt. Their first owner was in the years 1792 – 1805 hitherto almost unknown Franz Strunz, the first exhibitor and the author and publisher of the first catalogue. F. Strunz was an enthusiast and supporter of the ideals of the Enlightenment,...
The paper is dedicated to mapping relationships of sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt with Switzerland, based on archival sources (correspondence) in two important institutions at Zurich: in the Zentralbibliothek and in the graphic collection at the Kunsthaus Zurich, uncovering new facts about the life and work of this significant artist. The writers of most of these letters are two artists coming...
In Europe, Calvaries were the substitutes of the sacred place of martyrdom of Jesus Christ. Their importance grew with the development of religious life and the limited possibility of pilgrimages to the Holy Land. The Calvary tradition has medieval roots, but its intensification took place only from the 15th century onwards. In the case of Calvaries, the mathematically thorough topography of Jerusalem,...
The existing library building of the Cistercian Monastery in Zwettl (Lower Austria) was built relatively quickly after a previous building in the years 1730 to 1732 and then, after completion of the painting decoration by Paul Troger (1733), also furnished. The building process and the intentions regarding the library system are easy to follow thanks to archival – so far unpublished – sources. They...
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