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Francesco Mochi (29 July 1580 – 6 February 1654) was an Italian early-Baroque sculptor〔He is documented as a painter, but none of his paintings appear to survive. A pen-and-wash drawing of a kneeling angel with a treelike candle, apparently a design for liturgical silver, was published by Marc Worsdale ("A Drawing Attributed to Francesco Mochi," ''The Burlington Magazine'' ()), reinforcing a 17th-century attribution of the drawing to Mochi; it was the first drawing attributed to Mochi.〕 active mostly in Rome and Orvieto. He was born in Montevarchi and died in Rome. His early training was with the anti-Mannerist Florentine painter Santi di Tito, where he formed a taste for pictorial clarity and the primacy of ''disegno'', exemplified in the sculpture of Giambologna and his studio and followers. He moved to Rome around 1599 and continued his training in the studio of the Venetian-trained sculptor Camillo Mariani. Mochi was a contemporary of Gian Lorenzo Bernini's father, Pietro, as well as later with the son. ==Career== Mochi worked with Stefano Maderno on a prominent papal commission, the Cappella Paolina in Santa Maria Maggiore, where he contributed his still somewhat immature ''Saint Matthew and the Angel'', in travertine. His first major work was the ''Annunciation of the Virgin by the Angel'', composed of two statues (the ''Angel'' completed 1605, the ''Virgin Annunciate'', 1608,〔Dates from Ian Wardropper, "A New Attribution to Francesco Mochi," ''Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies'' (1991:102-119, 179), which summarises Mochi's career (pp 106f) in attributing to him an idealised ''Bust of a Youth'' at the Art Institute of Chicago.〕 (Orvieto, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo )). "A fanfare raising sculpture from its slumber", as Rudolph Wittkower called it,〔Wittkower, ''Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750'' 3rd ed. (Penguin) 1973:85.〕 it prefigures the baroque with its restrained emotiveness. Mochi was one of the few seventeenth-century sculptors who was also a master bronze-caster.〔Jennifer Montagu, "A Model by Francesco Mochi for the 'Saint Veronica'" ''The Burlington Magazine'', 124 No. 952, Special Issue in Honour of Terence Hodgkinson (July 1982):430-437) p. 430.〕 He made two masterly equestrian bronze statues of Ranuccio and Alessandro Farnese in Piazza Cavalli, Piacenza. ''Ranuccio Farnese'', 1612–20, and ''Alessandro Farnese'', 1620–29, are among the high points of his career. He returned from Piacenza to Rome, where he found Bernini fully in charge of major commissions, and a current fully developed Baroque style with which Mochi was now out of touch. His late Roman works are the ''Christ Receiving Baptism''〔((image) )〕 (1635 or later, Ponte Mello, Rome); ''Taddeus'' (1641–44, Orvieto), and ''Saints Peter and Paul'' (1638–52, Porta del Popolo), and ''Saint Martha'' for the Barberini family chapel at Sant'Andrea della Valle (1609–1621). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Francesco Mochi」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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