Original scientific paper
The Painting of the Nativity in the Ursuline Convent in Varaždin
Mirjana Repanić-Braun
; Arhiv za likovne umjetnosti HAZU, Zagreb
Abstract
In the church of the Nativity, within the Ursuline Convent in Varaždin, there is a painting representing the birth of Jesus, originally the central part of a Baroque high altar made of wood, no longer existent. In the bottom right corner of the painting are the author's signature, the date and place of its origin, yet only the name is legible. The former attributions had different interpretations of the text and the work was ascribed to two different authors, both of them unknown in the history of an. A careful reading of the signature plus the stylistic and comparative analysis point at the well-known Styrian painter Franz lgnaz
Flurer (1688-1742) as the author of this high-quality painting. Flurer had served his apprenticeshlp at the workshop of the Augsburg painter Johann Rieger. Following that period, i.e. in 1720, he became the principal painter of count Matia Ignaz von Attems, and produced a number of works covering a variety of themes in Slovenska Bistrica, Ptuj, Brežice... After the conut's death, Flurer arrived in Graz and remained there until his own death. Like the majority of Flurer's religious paintings, the paiting of the Nativity was made in 1739. Some of them show striking similiarities with the altar painting from Varaždin in the typology of characters, composition and the conception of the painted space.
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165697
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Publication date:
15.12.1993.
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