Ars Adriatica, No. 7, 2017.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15291/ars.1394
Angels from Zadar in Ceregnano: A Research Contribution on Gregorio Morlaiter
Damir Tulić
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Rijeka
Mario Pintarić
; Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Rijeka
Abstract
In the small town of Ceregnano, not far from Rovigo in Veneto, a new parish church was built in the 18th century. Its richly ornamented high altar has a monumental tabernacle with two large marble angels in adoration. The author has established that the altar was made in the tradition of analogous works produced by Giorgio Massari, and that the accurate date of its construction is 1778, the year carved at the rear of the tabernacle dome. Moreover, models have been found for the Ceregnano angels, namely the marble statues of angels at the high altar of the Benedictine church of St Mary in Zadar, produced between 1759 and 1762 by the famous Venetian sculptor Giovanni Maria Morlaiter. More precisely, the Ceregnano angels were made after Morlaiter’s terracotta models for the angels of Zadar, preserved at the Ca’Rezzonico museum in Venice. A stylistic analysis of sculptural decoration at the Ceregnano altar has allowed the author to attribute it to Giovanni Maria’s son Gregorio Morlaiter (Venice, 1738 – 1784), heir to his father’s workshop. The same master has been attributed with a small tabernacle with putti installed in 1776 on the high altar of the church of Sant’Andrea della Zirada in Venice.
Keywords
Ceregnano; Zadar; marble angels; Giovanni Maria Morlaiter; Gregorio Morlaiter; 18th-century sculpture; Venice, Sant’Andrea della Zirada
Hrčak ID:
191250
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Publication date:
20.12.2017.
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