Domenico Guidi

Domenico Guidi (* 1625 in Carrara, † March 28, 1701 in Rome ) was an Italian sculptor.

From Carrara Guidi followed his uncle, the famous sculptor Giuliano Finelli, to Naples. As a nephew of an artist who feuded with Bernini, Guidi was never employed by the great master. Instead, he joined after he Tommaso during Masaniello's uprising had fled Naples in 1647, the studio Alessandro Algardi to. He worked there together with another student, Ercole Ferrata, on various projects, for example on the unfinished work of Vision of Saint Nicholas of his master, completed in 1655.

After Algardi Death 1654 Guidi was independent and established his own workshop. Compared with other artists of the major studios, he was extremely productive and has developed into a business-savvy entrepreneur, who received orders from all over Italy, but also from Germany, France and even Malta. One of the angels on the Ponte Sant'Angelo was the only work that he performed for Bernini at this time; he probably wanted to define more of the major competitors. In fact Guidi rose after the death of Bernini, Ercole Ferrata and Antonio Raggi on the most important sculptor in Rome. Through his advocacy of Charles Lebrun he gave also the French sculptors growing influence.

To Guidi outstanding work as part of the monument to Natale Rondinini in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo ( 1657) and also the relief on the altar of the Capella di Monte di Pieta ( 1667-76 ), which is a Lamentation of Christ. Guidi had as his teacher Algardi great design skills; thereby show his figures, although the classical forms of emotional expression, but act compared with his master uninspired. His reliefs are said to have missing space depth.

Swell

  • Rudolf Wittkower: Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. Penguin Books, Harmondsworth 1980, ISBN 0-14-056116-1, pp. 312-314.
  • Bruce Boucher: Italian Baroque Sculpture, World of Art, Thames & Hudson, 1998, ISBN 978-0-500-20307-1, page 155
  • Rolf Toman (Editor): Baroque - architecture, sculpture, painting. Könemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-89508-916-8, p 297
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