# Allegory of Sculpture [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PELLEGRINI, Giovanni Antonio]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 142 x 132 cm ## Commentary Allegory of Sculpture c. 1730 Oil on canvas, 142 x 132 cm Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Very early in his career, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, considerably influenced by Luca Giordano, absorbed the examples of Magnasco and Sebastiano Ricci and turned his style towards a refined decorative freedom in airily elegant works of pure rococo taste; and through his stays in several European artistic centres London, Düsseldorf, The Hague, Antwerp, Paris, Prague Dresden and Vienna, his work gained a certain popularity. The 'Allegory of Sculpture' and the 'Allegory of Painting' belong to his last years. They are an interweaving of the lightest of figural rhythms, a coloured web of impalpable, rarified weightlessness, shot through with silvery transparencies which recall the pastels of the artist's sister-in-law, Rosalba Carriera. Like hers, the paintings of Pellegrini are emblematic of the skin-deep spiritual frivolity of a part of the eighteenth century. ## Related artworks - [Allegory of Painting]() - [Allegory]() - [Allegory]() - [Apollo and Daphne]() - [Bedroom ceiling]() - [Brazen Serpent]() - [Christ Healing the Paralytic]() - [Danaë and the Shower of Gold]() - [Decoration of the portego]() - [Decoration of the portego]() - [Decoration of the portego]() - [Mucius Scaevola before Porsenna]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()