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Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1644 Volterra – 1725 Rome) was an Italian sculptor working in Rome in the Bernini-derived Baroque style. He produced many highly accomplished sculptures of up to monumental scale but was never a leading figure in the Roman art world. ==Life== Mazzuoli was born in Volterra and trained in Siena but spent his most of his adult working life in Rome.〔A return trip to Siena 1677–79 is noted by his early biographer Lione Pascoli.〕 There, he entered the workshop of Ercole Ferrata〔Filippo Baldinucci, ''Notizie dei professori del disegno... 18 (Florence) 1773:173.〕 where he became the only pupil of Melchiorre Cafà who also worked with Ferrata.〔Pascoli.〕 Like Ferrata, Mazzuoli was frequently drawn on by Gian Lorenzo Bernini〔Among his documented work on Bernini projects can be noted the clay ''bozzetti'' and wax models for casting in bronze connected with Bernini's Ciborium, discussed by Jennifer Montagu, "Two Small Bronzes from the Studio of Bernini" ''The Burlington Magazine'' 109 No. 775 (October 1967:566-571).〕 to assist with large commissions. He was among the co-workers who cooperated in Bernini's Tomb of Pope Alexander VII (1672–78). When late in 1702 Pope Clement XI and Benedetto Cardinal Pamphili announced their grand scheme for twelve over life-size sculptures of the Apostles to fill the niches along the nave of the Basilica of San Giovanni in Laterano, the project was divided among all the premier sculptors of Rome.〔"The largest sculptural task in Rome during the early eighteenth century," according to Rudolph Wittkower (''Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600–1750, rev. ed. 1965:290); "the distribution for commissions is, at the same time, a good yardstick for measuring the reputation of contemporary sculptors."〕 Each statue was to be sponsored by an illustrious prince, and Mazzuoli was assigned the statue of ''Saint Philip'', financed by the archbishop of Würzburg and finished in 1711.〔 Like most sculptors,〔The notable exception being Pierre Le Gros who successfully refused to work to Maratta's design and wasn't given a sketch.〕 Mazzuolli was provided with a sketch by Clement's favourite painter, Carlo Maratta, which he was to follow.〔Robert Cahn, "A Counterproof from a Drawing of the Lateran 'Saint Philip'" ''Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University'' 38.1 (1979:11-13); Cahn is discussing a counterproof of a chalk drawing made of the finished sculpture as it was insdtalled, doubtless by one of Mazzuoli's numerous workshop assistants.〕 Robert Cahn observed "When ''Saint Philip'' is compared with other apostles in the series, it is clear that the somewhat old-fashioned, Berniniesque style manifested in Mazzuoli's single assignment was losing appeal."〔Cahn 1979:11.〕 Mazzuoli carried out some major commissions for the Order of Malta, most noticeably the main altar of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, finished in 1703. There, he created a marble group of the ''Baptism of Christ'' which might on the one hand have been influenced by Cafà's undocumented and abandoned designs from 1666,〔Cafà died in 1667 while working on this bronze group.〕 and it is certainly strongly dependent on a small baptism group by Alessandro Algardi.〔cf. *Keith Sciberras, ''Melchiorre Cafà's'' Baptism of Christ ''for the Knights of the Order of Malta'', in: Keith Sciberras (Ed.), ''Melchiorre Cafà. Maltese Genius of the Roman Baroque'', Valletta 2006, pp. 97-112.〕 In the same church, he produced in his later years allegorical figures for the tomb of Ramon Perello (died 1720), Grand Master of the Order of Malta.〔A terracotta ''modello'' is at the Musée du Louvre, first recognized by Schlegel 1967:393 fig. 10.〕 His brother, Annibale Mazzuoli, was a painter. His son, also a sculptor, is generally distinguished as Giuseppe Mazzuoli the younger''. 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「Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1644–1725)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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