Antonio Corradini

Antonio Corradini (6 September 1668-29 June 1752) was a Venetian Rococo sculptor.

Corradini was born in Este and worked mainly in the Veneto, but also completed commissions for work outside Venice, including Naples.

Sometime in 1718-1719 he was commissioned to execute a monument to Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, Marshal of the Venetian forces for the defence of island of Corfu. He was paid in 1720 for a signed altar dedicated to the Blessed Hemma, installed in the crypt of Gurk Cathedral in Carinthia.

Corradini completed the outdoor marble statuary group, "Nessus and Deianira" (1718-23), for the "Grosser Garten" in Dresden. The "Apollo Flaying Marsyas" and "Zephyrus and Flora" (1723-8) are two life-sized marble sculptures originally commissioned by the King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong for the gardens of the Höllandisches Palais in Dresden [Now in Victoria and Albert Museum, London] .

In 1750, he completed "Veiled Truth" (also called "Modesty" or "Chastity") a remarkable tomb monument dedicated to Cecilia Gaetani dell'Aquila d'Aragona, mother of Raimondo de Sangro, the main patron of the Sansevero Chapel ("Capella Sansevero de' Sangri" or "Pietatella") in central Naples . Not only is it a technically inspired work, but the conceit of modesty shielded by the flimsiest of veils creates an alluring but ironic tension, perhaps one somewhat unmerited for a chapel funerary monument, but one that does compel remembrance. A "Christ Veiled under a Shroud", found in the same chapel, was subsequently completed by Giuseppe Sanmartino (1720-1793). The same artifice of "veiled" marble is utilized. The chapel has also a statue ("Release from Deception") by Francesco Queirolo of Genoa. He died in Naples.

* [http://www.wga.hu/bio/c/corradin/biograph.html| Web Gallery of Art]
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