Publication details
Jan Jiří Etgens a Dionýsius Strauss. Nový pohled na barokní skicář "Marat Icones"
| Title in English | Johann Georg Etgens and Dionysius Strauss. A New Approach to the Baroque "Marat Icones" Sketch Book |
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| Year of publication | 2017 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Opuscula historiae artium |
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| Web | http://digilib.phil.muni.cz/handle/11222.digilib/137481 |
| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | Johann Georg Etgens; Dionysius Strauss; baroque drawing; ceiling painting; 18th century; Moravia; Rajhrad; concettismo; Marat Icones |
| Description | The „Marat Icones“ sketch book with the drawings of alleged Italian artists, which Hradisko Premonstratensian and monastic painter Dionysius Strauss (1660-1720) acquired and later drew into, surprisingly contains drawings of a painter and frescoer Johann Georg Etgens (1691-1757). The five new identified drawings are linked to the fresco decoration of a monastic church of the Benedictines in Rajhrad near Brno, the wall paintings of which Etgens created from 1726 to 1729. The identification of Etgens´ five drawings raises a number of questions that ultimately lead doubts concerning the authorship of the other „Italian“ drawings in the sketch book also former hypothesis on the origin and appearance of the album. |
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