Saturday, October 24, 2020

Narratives in Relief - 1650-1700

Daniel Neuberger
Battle with a Dragon
ca. 1651-52
colored wax
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Meister der Sebastiansmartyrien
Martyrdom of St Sebastian
1655
ivory
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Anonymous Netherlandish Artist
Infant Sea Nymphs with a Hippocamp
1657
ivory
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Adam Lenckhardt
The Flagellation
ca. 1650-60
ivory
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Jacques Buirette
Allegory of the Union of Painting and Sculpture
1663
marble
Musée du Louvre

attributed to Melchiorre Cafà
David dancing before the Ark
ca. 1660-65
terracotta
(modello for bronze)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

"And the Ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obededom, and all his household.  And it was told King David, saying, The Lord hath blessed the house of Obededom, and all that pertaineth unto him, because of the Ark of God.  So David went and brought up the Ark of God from the house of Obededom into the city of David with gladness.  And it was so, that when they that bare the Ark of the Lord had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.  And David danced before the Lord with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.  So David and all the House of Israel  brought up the Ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.  And as the Ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.  And they brought in the Ark of the Lord, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord."

– Book 2 of Samuel, chapter 6 (King James Bible, 1611)

Jakob Auer
The Judgment of Paris
ca. 1675-80
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

attributed to Gaetano Giulio Zumbo
The Judgment of the Damned
ca. 1675-1700
colored wax
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Jacques Prou
Allegorical Figures of Sculpture and Painting
composing a Portrait of Louis XIV

1682
marble
Musée du Louvre

Francis van Bossuit
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ca. 1680
ivory
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ignaz Elhafen
Battle Scene with Amazons
ca. 1680-85
cedar wood
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ignaz Bendl
Apollo and Diana slaying the Children of Niobe
1684
ivory
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Christoph Daniel Schenck
The Mocking of Christ
1685
ivory
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Anonymous French Artist
Mythological Scene
ca. 1680-1700
tortoiseshell
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Münchner Hofwerkstatt
The Adoration of the Magi
ca. 1690-1700
gold, enamel, diamonds, sapphires, emeralds, rubies, pearls
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna