Antonio Corradini
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Antonio Corradini (6 September 1668-29 June 1752) was a Venetian Rococo sculptor.
Corradini was born in Este and worked mainly in the Veneto, but also completed commissions for work outside Venice, including Naples.
Sometime in 1718-1719 he was commissioned to execute a monument to Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Marshal of the Venetian forces for the defence of island of Corfu. He was paid in 1720 for a signed altar dedicated to the Blessed Hemma, installed in the crypt of Gurk Cathedral in Carinthia.
Corradini completed the outdoor marble statuary group, Nessus and Deianira (1718-23), for the Grosser Garten in Dresden. The Apollo Flaying Marsyas and Zephyrus and Flora (1723-8) are two life-sized marble sculptures originally commissioned by the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong for the gardens of the Höllandisches Palais in Dresden[1].
In 1750, he completed Veiled Truth (also called Modesty or Chastity) a remarkable tomb monument dedicated to Cecilia Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona, mother of Raimondo de Sangro, the main patron of the Sansevero Chapel (Capella Sansevero de' Sangri or Pietatella) in central Naples . Not only is it a technically inspired work, but the conceit of modesty shielded by the flimsiest of veils creates an alluring but ironic tension, perhaps one somewhat unmerited for a chapel funerary monument, but one that does compel remembrance. A Christ Veiled under a Shroud, found in the same chapel, was subsequently completed by Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720-1793). The same artifice of "veiled" marble is utilized. The chapel has also a statue (Release from Deception) by Francesco Queirolo of Genoa. He died in Naples.
- Web Gallery of Art
- Bruce Boucher (1998). in Thames & Hudson, World of Art: Italian Baroque Sculpture, 22,102.
- ^ Now in Victoria and Albert Museum, London
