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count the old stories Francisco Prince Eugene, Prince of Savoy-Carignan Vienna died of pneumonia in his sleep after a night playing cards with his old friend, the Countess Batthyany .
A legend says that a live lion in the palace maintained died that night. He is buried in the chapel of the Cathedral honor of Vienna's St. Stephen . Then ran through 1736 ...
A legend says that a live lion in the palace maintained died that night. He is buried in the chapel of the Cathedral
For in that night, again, that same night and a few yards away in the region of Swabia, Bavaria. Our artist born sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschnidt the famous, go with the moniker ... and have to write often do not ever finish this post.
Continuous my mind escapes me, as usual ... grew up in Munich, home of his uncle, the sculptor Johann Baptist Straub , which was his first teacher.
At the end of 1755 he enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna , and became a pupil of Jacob Schletterer. Graduated He graduated and got a job in Imperial House. In the lounge of the 1760-1763 construction there made his most famous works of art that more or less designate as official bronze busts of the imperial couple and some reliefs depicting the heir to the throne and his wife. With these works he joined in late Baroque the then prevailing late in the representations of art that made up the figures courtesans; our artist while still under the decisive influence of Balthasar Ferdinand Moll.
To this trend belong two life-size statues representing the imperial couple, commissioned this work by Maria Theresa of Austria and carried out between 1764 and 1766. Beside is worth mentioning some other portraits of religious subjects. More a series of statues commissioned by the Princess of Savoy, who also survived.
Much Franz should influence the busts of ancient Rome and that thereafter becomes obsessed with the features and appearance of the face, influenced by the old portraits of Republican Rome. It is worth mentioning the work done between the beginning of the year 1769-1770, representing the well-known physician Franz Anton Mesmer
about the same time, in 1770-1772 Messerschmidt began work on a new character, good in the bust of a new character ... ufff and discussed later in this issue.
then began to manifest in the personality disorders, schizophrenia, pure and simple, to mention another thing. Follower the Golden Ratio, or understand us here, what the Renaissance artists called the "divine proportion ." They said that they used to be the beauty and balance in the design of the artwork. The divine Leonardo would have much to say regarding this.
I must express also suffered from severe digestive disorders, say the historians of today, which might have suffered from Crohn's disease. That more or less with the simplicity and ignorance of the writer, it could be argued as an inflammation of the intestines .
The case is well not to be owed for those years to our life character that went sour Vienna, and thence in the same year accepted an invitation to Munich. They waited two years for a promised commission grant him permanent employment en la Corte. En 1777 se fue a Presburgo (ahora Bratislava ), donde su hermano, Johann Adam trabajaba como escultor.
Messerschmidt sought refuge in his village, and died 9 years later, at 47. During that time Messerschmidt made 60 sculptures in a breathtaking quality.
Is the topic?
Tens of key gestures that we can make our human face ...
was said that he spoke with ghosts to be pinched with them in front of the mirror to find the faces and gestures essential in humans. It was said that maintaining contact with his master astral Hermes, which until the end of his life he kept a card or drawing of a sphinx or mummy of Egypt where ultimate power lay golden knowledge.
artist eagerly sought 64 primary gestures. Those who patiently, was modeled in exquisite sculptures and hallucinations, according to the philosopher. No believer in ghosts tormented attributed Friedrich Nicolai part of the madness of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt to her chastity ( not whether the final who hesitates is lost, they say ...)
Friedrich When asked why lower lip was always hiding in his sculptures, the artist replied "For any animal of nature teaches it."
Today a major exhibition flooded Paris in the basement of the Louvre can be seen tremendous faces of Franz Xaver Messerschmidt .
Awesome, amazing, outside of logic, what we usually call as coherent, carved in a time that certainly was not his time, because its modern and daring surpassed the limit to the creative; of what make the current trends and the times. All of them created in a cabin in Bavaria, at the end of 1700. A man who prays to a legendary alchemist, a magician of the ancient cult of the pyramids that speak to ghosts, informing you of the perfect ratio of human gestures alone I have one observation.
Who was this Franz Xaver Messerschmidt?
Forced Epilogue:
I think that with all this history in high : who does not venture this afternoon to shop around for the Seville Fair?
And when you take a couple of glasses of Manzanilla ... and give and ask each sevillanas: What is the gesture, grimace or facial expression that provides peace and accurate knowledge in every moment?
FIN
(How in the movies)
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