Giovanni Baratta

Giovanni Baratta (also Giovanni Isidoro Baratta ) ( born May 13, 1670 in Carrara, † May 21, 1747 ) was an Italian sculptor of the late Baroque.

Family

Giovanni Baratta came from a family of sculptors in Carrara. He was the son of Isidoro Baratta and nephew of Francesco Baratta the elder (about 1590-1666 ) and Giovanni Maria Baratta (ca. 1627-1675 ). His brothers Francesco Baratta the Younger ( † 1731) and Pietro Baratta ( 1668-1729 ) were also sculptors. His nephew Giovanni Antonio Cybei (1706-1784) worked for him as an assistant and took over after the death of his uncle 's studio.

Life

Giovanni Baratta learned the first sculpture in Florence with Giovanni Battista Foggini, then four years in Rome at Camillo Rusconi. To 1697 he returned to Florence, where he created his first attested works ( Arcangelo Raffaele e Tobiolo, marble sculpture, 1698, in the church of Santo Spirito ). In the first decade of the 18th century led Baratta also jobs in other cities, including Genoa and Lucca. In Livorno, he created 1709-1717 altar sculptures in the church of San Ferdinando.

Baratta worked for major international clients, including the Danish King Frederick IV This acquired in 1709 during a stay in Florence several marble statues ( Hercules and the Nemean lion, Orpheus and Eurydice, today in Copenhagen, Rosenborg Castle ). 1710 appointed John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough on the advice of Sir John Vanbrugh in his two statues (La Gloria and Il Valore ).

From 1719 Giovanni Baratta worked in Turin for the King Victor Amadeus II and created sculptures from 1722 for the chapel Sant'Uberto in the Reggia of Venaria Reale near Turin, including the four Fathers of the Church (1728). 1725 he was appointed official court sculptor.

Baratta returned in 1725 to his native town of Carrara, where he 1731 Duke Alderano I of Cybo - Malaspina awarded the title of Count ( Conte). In his last phase of life he leads among other things, orders for the Palácio Nacional de Mafra (Portugal) and the Palacio Real La Granja (Spain).

Works (selection)

  • Florence: Arcangelo Raffaele e Tobiolo, church Santo Spirito ( 1698 )
  • Fountain in the Palazzo Colonna Vivarelli
  • Statue of San Tommaso in the Church of Santi Michele e Gaetano (1700)
  • Facade of the church of the Santissima Annunziata ( 1708)
  • Three altars in the church of San Frediano, including the main altar with marble group " An angel freed two slaves out of purgatory " ( Angelo che libera due schiavi del purgatorio ) (ca. 1710-1717 ).
  • Rebuilding plan for the church of Santuario di Monte Nero ( 1721), together with Giovanni del Fantasia
  • Ark of colored marble in the Old Synagogue ( circa 1742 )
  • Reliefs in the Palazzo Madama
  • Statues for the facade of the church of Santa Teresa
  • Sculptures for the chapel Sant'Uberto in the Reggia of Venaria Reale

Pictures

  • San Tommaso, San Gaetano, Florence ( right)
  • Arcangelo Raffaele e Tobiolo, Santo Spirito, Florence
  • Allegory of Lombardy, Bode Museum, Berlin
  • Altar sculpture, Collegiate di San Lorenzo, Montevarchi

Swell

  • Memorie storiche d' illustri scittori e di uomini insigni dell'Antica e moderna Lunigiana, Emanuelle Gerini, 1829
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