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Antonio Corradini. Chastity, 1752. San Severo Chapel, Naples.

How can a light, transparent veil be sculpted from a block of hard marble? This requires a truly divine gift. Only brilliant sculptors can convey in stone the tenderness and airiness of the lightest fabric, curves and folds, while maintaining every feature of the face and body. It is unbelievable that human hands are capable of such a thing.

The block, which was to become a statue, had to have two layers - one more transparent, the other more dense. Such natural stones are hard to find, but they exist. The master had a plot in his head, he knew what kind of block he was looking for. He performed it, observing the texture of a normal surface, and walked on the border separating the denser and more transparent part of the stone. As a result, the remains of this transparent part "shone through", which gave the effect of a veil.
The peak of popularity for the image of a veil in stone fell on the 17th century. Almost two hundred years later, at the beginning of the 19th century, there was another surge.

At the request of friends, today we will start acquaintance with the masters marble veil and consider the work of the great Italian sculptor Antonio Corrardini. (Antonio Corradini, 1668-1752). He is considered one of the most famous masters 17th century, using the technique of making veils.

For the most part he worked for Venetian customers. His sculptures are on the squares and in parks, cathedrals and museums in Este, Venice, Rome, Vienna, Gurk, Dresden, Detroit, London, Prague, Naples, where he commissioned Raimondo de Sangro to decorate the San Severo Chapel.

The statue of Christ under the shroud, begun by him in the chapel (he managed to make only a clay model), was performed by the then young and unknown Neapolitan sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino. We have already considered this masterpiece.

Corrardini was born and worked in Venice, although he spent some time in Germany, Vienna and Naples. At the age of 14, he was apprenticed to the sculptor Antonio Tarsia, and Corradini opened his first own workshop in 1713. The most famous work master - the sculpture "Chastity", which he completed in 1752. Now it is exhibited in the Sansevero Chapel Museum in Naples..

The statue "Chastity" was made by Antonio Corradini in 1752 and represents tombstone Cecilia Gaetani del Aquila d'Aragona (1690 - 1710), mother of Prince Raimondo, who died shortly after giving birth. Corradini, who had repeatedly portrayed people wrapped in a veil or cloth, reached the pinnacle of his work here.

The fabric, as if becoming damp from oil fumes from the lamp, elegantly and naturally fits the female body.
The fabric is so thin that it is like a weightless cobweb, and must be supported on the figure with a belt of roses. A glance to the side, an inexpressible lightness of the pose, a withered tree underfoot, a broken marble slab with an epitaph - all this, along with the fabric, emphasizes that the life of the depicted woman should have ended too soon. openwork lace.

The main ideas of the monument were, on the one hand, the confidence of Prince Raimondo in the perfections and virtues of his mother, on the other hand, the eternal pain because he never knew the woman who gave him life at the cost of her own. The unbearable pain from the impossibility of simple human communication with the deceased mother is emphasized by the relief at the base of the statue.

Monument "Chastity" defines clarity given name in work, because in its forms, it expresses in volume the meaning of its name: virtue, spirituality and frank purity.

Other sculptures by the master.

The cutter Antonio Corradini also owns the sculpture Veiled Woman (Puritas)
Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas), Antonio Corradini, 1717
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca" Rezzonico, Venice, Italy

Tuccia, Antonio Corradini, National Gallery old art in Rome

Femme voilee, Antonio Corradini, Louvre, Paris

The pearl of the Petrodvorets collection "The Veiled Lady" by Antonio Corradini.
Bust "Girl under Veil" (Carrara marble) - a fragment of the famous statue "Vera" by sculptor Antonio Corradini (1688-1752), bought for the collection of Peter the Great in Venice by S. Raguzinsky for "100 golden ducats". was in summer garden before late XVIII century, then - in St. George's Hall Winter Palace where it was damaged in a fire in 1837. The upper part of the statue, after restoration, was placed by A.I. Shtakenshneider in the Inner Garden of the Tsarina's Pavilion in Peterhof.

Text with illustrations of other works by the sculptor http://maxpark.com/community/6782/content/3392523

. a marble sculpture of a female head, as if alive, as if covered with transparent, flowing silk

This bust Milanese sculptor of the 19th century Giuseppe Kroff "The Veiled Nun" - "The Veiled Nun" meets you immediately on the stairs, at the entrance to the gallery, then I many more times when I came to Washington DC went to look at it.

Then my husband tried to recreate a similar head from cold porcelain and wood http://www.liveinternet.ru/users/mi...a/post226324472 , and I was completely sure that this Washington sculpture was unique until recently until unexpectedly in LiveJournal with her friend uzoranet and with my reader Li-rushnaya Galina_vel found that there are such ladies, then a whole community in the world exists.

See for yourself:

it Sculpture of a Vestal Virgin in Chatsworth Written by Raffaelo Monti.

The marble bust of a Vestal Virgin under a veil was created by the Italian sculptor Raffaello Monti (1818-1881) in 1860. The bust is exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and for the English estate of Chatworth, the sculptor made the same vestal in full height.

Undine Rising from the Waters
ca. 1880-1882, by Chauncey Bradley Ives (1810-1894), Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 263
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, C.T., United States Of America
Yale University Gallery (USA), by Chauncey Bradley Ives. .

Sculpture in marble. "Undine emerging from the water", 1880,

The sculpture of the Vestal Virgin was filmed in the movie "Pride and Prejudice" 2005

The beautiful "The Veiled Virgin", at the Presentation Convent in St. John's, Newfoundland.

Giovanni Strazza (1818-1875)

White Carrara marble. Sculptor V.P. Brodzsky. 1881

Lady from the Kochubey Palace.

Marble bust with transparent veil, 20th century, Bankfield Museum -
This sculpture is given as an example of the creation optical illusion- a technique in art, the purpose of which is to create the illusion that the depicted object is in three-dimensional space, while in reality it is drawn in a two-dimensional plane.) The effect does not disappear at any angle and at any distance

The pearl of the Petrodvorets collection "The Veiled Lady" by Antonio Corradini.
The sculptor became famous for his skill in depicting faces and figures covered with a thin cloth. Acquired by Peter. This sculpture was once in full growth, but split in half and is now exhibited here in a truncated form)))

Veiled Virgin
Giovanni Strazza

Biblical Rebecca, at Salarjung Museum in India.
Giovanni Benzoni

Veiled Lady
Chatsworth,
Femme Voilée (la foi?), by Antonio Corradini, early to mid 1700s, in the Louvre

The Veiled Lady. The Gibbs Museum of Art, Charleston, SC

What a delicate work, because the veil looks so natural that it seems that at the slightest breath the fabric will begin to move.

There were several sculptors who so skillfully conveyed the impression of the thinnest fabric that one is amazed - how is it done?

However... The technique of veils in sculpture has been known since ancient Greece.

Terracotta head of a woman in a veil, Cyprus, 2nd - 1st century BC

Terracotta head of a veiled woman, 4th century BC

Ancient Greece, 4th century BC Metropolitan Museum.

Ancient Greece, 3rd - 2nd century BC e. Bronze.

"Christ under the shroud"

Antonio Corradini (Antonio Corradini, September 6, 1668, Este, Padua - June 29, 1752, Naples) and Giuseppe Sanmartino (Giuseppe Sanmartino, 1720 - 1793) unites the 18th century, the profession - they are both Italian sculptors, and the work "Christ under the Shroud", commissioned by Raimondo de Sangro (the seventh prince of San Severo) for the San Severo Chapel in Naples .

Initially, the prince entrusted the work to Antonio Corradini, but he managed to make only a clay model (kept in the Certosa San Martino Museum). After the death of Corradini, Prince Raimondo entrusted the completion of the work to the young and obscure Neapolitan sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino.

Sanmartino retained the main feature of the original design - the thinnest marble canvas.
Prince Raimondo intended to place "Christ under the Shroud" not in the chapel itself, but under it - in the crypt, where the sculpture of Sanmartino, according to the prince's plan, was to be illuminated by a special "eternal light" invented by him.

Antonio Corradini, "Sarah"

Antonio Corradini

For the most part he worked for Venetian customers. His sculptures are on the squares and in parks, cathedrals and museums in Este, Venice, Rome, Vienna, Gurk, Dresden, Detroit, London, Prague, Naples, where he commissioned Raimondo de Sangro to decorate the San Severo Chapel. The statue of Christ under the shroud, begun by him in the chapel (he managed to make only a clay model), was executed by the then young and unknown Neapolitan sculptor Giuseppe Sanmartino.

"Purity"
Antonio Corradini, Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas) 1717/ 1725 Marble Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca" Rezzonico, Venice

Chastity, Naples, San Severo Chapel.

The statue "Chastity" (Pudizia) is a tombstone of Cecilia Gaetani del Aquila d'Aragona (1690 - 1710), the mother of Prince Raimondo, who died shortly after giving birth.

"The Veiled Lady"

"Veiled Girl"

Bust "Veiled Girl"(Carrara marble) - a fragment of the famous statue "Vera" by sculptor Antonio Corradini (1688-1752), bought for the collection of Peter the Great in Venice by S. Raguzinsky for "100 golden ducats". It was in the Summer Garden until the end of the 18th century, then in the St. George Hall of the Winter Palace, where it was damaged in a fire in 1837. The upper part of the statue, after restoration, was placed by A.I. Shtakenshneider in the Inner Garden of the Tsarina's Pavilion in Peterhof.

Giuseppe Sammartino

Giuseppe Sanmartino."Christ under the shroud"

Giuseppe Sammartino (1720-1793) - Italian sculptor of the southern Italian school. Worked in Naples. In his manner, the traditions of the Baroque were combined with the verismo of Neapolitan plastics.

The first dated work is the marble sculpture "Christ under the Shroud" (1753), originally commissioned from the sculptor Antonio Corradini, in the San Severo Chapel.

The sculpture aroused the admiration of Antonio Canova, who, according to him, would give ten years of his life to become the author of such a work. Legend has it that the real veil was petrified.

Raffaello Monti

"Sleep of Sorrow and Joy of Dream". Raffaello Monti, London, 1861.

"Night", 1862

"True"

"Vestal"

The marble bust of a Vestal Virgin under a veil was created by the Italian sculptor Raffaello Monti (1818-1881) in 1860.
The bust is exhibited at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and for the English estate of Chatworth, the sculptor made the same vestal in full growth.

The sculpture depicts a priestess of Vesta, a Vestal Virgin, covered with a veil. Vesta is the Roman goddess-keeper of the sacred fire, symbolizing the center of life - the state, city, home. It was believed that in any fire there is a particle of the spirit of Vesta.

"Circassian Slave" (1851)

Marble Bust of a Veiled Maiden Signed By Raffaello Monti

Giovanni Strazza

"Virgin Mary" made of marble by Giovanni Strazza (1818-1875), mid-19th century.

Sculptural bust "Woman in a hat with a veil". Marble. Western Europe. Early 20th century

Musee d'Orsay in Paris

"In a transparent veil", XX century. Elizabeth Ackroyd. Bankfield Museum, UK.
The effect does not disappear at any angle and at any distance.

"Undine emerging from the water", 1880. Chansey Bradley Ives. Yale University Gallery, USA.

Veil Lady. Artist Rossi, Pietro. 1882

With clothes on which not only lace is visible, but also the seams and the texture of the fabric. With a body with folds and pockmarks. Or maybe that upon closer examination there are also skin pores?...
What about pure intention, thought form, consciousness interacting with the quantum structures of minerals? Not without tools at hand, of course.

"Marble veil". Virgin Mary in marble by Giovanni Strazza. mid XIX century.

Statue "Chastity" by Antonio Corradini. Marble. 1752. Chapel of San Severo in Naples. The sculpture is a tombstone of the mother of Prince Raimondo, who gave him life at the cost of her own.

Sculpture "The Rape of Proserpina". Marble. Height 295 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome. Lorenzo Bernini created this masterpiece when he was 23 years old. In 1621. "I conquered marble and made it malleable like wax."

Can anyone explain how it is possible to make this net out of stone?

An even more complex allegory is the monument (to the father of Prince Raimondo - Antonio de Sangro (1685-1757). The Italian name of this monument, Disinganno, is often translated into Russian as "Disappointment", but not in the current generally accepted meaning, but in Church Slavonic - "Getting rid of the spell" (San Severo Chapel, in Naples)

The Disenchantment (after 1757) by Francesco Quirolo is the most famous of his works. The monument is valuable for the finest work on marble and pumice, from which the net is made. Quirolo was the only one of the Neapolitan masters who agreed to such a delicate work, while the rest refused, believing that with one touch of the chisel, the network would crumble to pieces.

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Original taken from masterok

similar, almost contemporary works(late 19th century) set. It is amazing that it is impossible to make many angles in the elements with a chisel, drill and grinder. There must be a chip, marriage, etc. But he is not! The statues are perfect!

Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas) 1717 - 1725
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca" Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
Sculpture, Marble
Done by Antonio Corradini

Antonio Corradini

Giuseppe Sanmartino, one of the most famous sculptor of his time, which masterpiece, Il Cristo Velato, is hosted by Sansevero Chapel, the legend says that a real veil was petrified thanks to alchemical processes.

"Sleep of Sorrow and Joy of Dream"
Made in London by Raffaelle Monti, 1861

The Sleep Of Sorrow And The Dream Of Joy By Raffaelle Monti

This one is made out of clay...

Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823-1880): Veiled Woman, 1869.

Stefano Maderno 1576-1636

This is the "Girl" by the Italian sculptor Quintillian Corbellini, early XIX century. It stands in the Winter Garden of Count Vorontsov's palace in Alupka. And indeed it is his treasure.

The first look at it gives a completely different impression. Not so bad, living face, a playful pose, the dress is frivolously, not for age, half-mast with only emerging breasts.

But it's worth taking a closer look... Lord! She's real!

And it is not so much the filigree of lace as the folds and wrinkles on the knees that attract attention.

With clothes on which not only lace is visible, but also the seams and the texture of the fabric. With a body with folds and pockmarks. Or maybe that upon closer examination there are also skin pores?...
What about pure intention, thought form, consciousness interacting with the quantum structures of minerals? Not without tools at hand, of course.

"Marble veil". Virgin Mary in marble by Giovanni Strazza. Mid 19th century.

Statue "Chastity" by Antonio Corradini. Marble. 1752. Chapel of San Severo in Naples. The sculpture is a tombstone of the mother of Prince Raimondo, who gave him life at the cost of her own.

Sculpture "The Rape of Proserpina". Marble. Height 295 cm. Galleria Borghese, Rome. Lorenzo Bernini created this masterpiece when he was 23 years old. In 1621. "I conquered marble and made it malleable like wax."

Can anyone explain how it is possible to make this net out of stone?

An even more complex allegory is the monument (to the father of Prince Raimondo - Antonio de Sangro (1685-1757). The Italian name of this monument, Disinganno, is often translated into Russian as "Disappointment", but not in the current generally accepted meaning, but in Church Slavonic - "Getting rid of the spell" (San Severo Chapel, in Naples)

The Disenchantment (after 1757) by Francesco Quirolo is the most famous of his works. The monument is valuable for the finest work on marble and pumice, from which the net is made. Quirolo was the only one of the Neapolitan masters who agreed to such a delicate work, while the rest refused, believing that with one touch of the chisel, the network would crumble to pieces.

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Original taken from masterok

There are many similar, almost contemporary works (late 19th century). It is amazing that it is impossible to make many angles in the elements with a chisel, drill and grinder. There must be a chip, marriage, etc. But he is not! The statues are perfect!

Bust of a Veiled Woman (Puritas) 1717 - 1725
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca" Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
Sculpture, Marble
Done by Antonio Corradini

Antonio Corradini

Giuseppe Sanmartino, one of the most famous sculptor of his time, which masterpiece, Il Cristo Velato, is hosted by Sansevero Chapel, the legend says that a real veil was petrified thanks to alchemical processes.

"Sleep of Sorrow and Joy of Dream"
Made in London by Raffaelle Monti, 1861

The Sleep Of Sorrow And The Dream Of Joy By Raffaelle Monti

This one is made out of clay...

Giovanni Battista Lombardi (1823-1880): Veiled Woman, 1869.

Stefano Maderno 1576-1636

This is the "Girl" by the Italian sculptor Quintillian Corbellini, early 19th century. It stands in the Winter Garden of Count Vorontsov's palace in Alupka. And indeed it is his treasure.

The first look at it gives a completely different impression. Yes, not bad, a lively face, a playful pose, a dress frivolously, not for age, half-mast with only emerging breasts.

But it's worth taking a closer look... Lord! She's real!

And it is not so much the filigree of lace as the folds and wrinkles on the knees that attract attention.

Swollen baby feet with dirty toes.

Gentle, childish, but at the same time playful face...