03 — ARTWORK
St Bruno
- MEDIUM
- Marble
- TYPE
- Religious
PALETTE
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COMMENTARY
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At the beginning of the eighteenth century, a cycle of founders of the religious orders was intended to complete the sculptural decoration of the navethe main interior space of a church building. It may have parallel aisles on each side, often separated from it by pillars, and is intersected by the transept, which cuts across it at the point where the choir begins. of St Peter's. Slodtz's St Bruno belongs to the series.
This statue, technically competent and attractive but stylistically indebted to masters of the previous ear, namely Le Gros and Rusconi, skillfully exploited the pathos of the Carthusian monk's renunciation of a bishop's mitre and crozierThe crook-shaped staff carried by a bishop. The crook is intended to resemble a shepherd's crook, i.e. it symbolizes the shepherd (the bishop) looking after his flock.. Both gesture and drapery are simplified here even if the introduction of a putto is at variance with the high seriousness of the work as a whole.
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@online{wga-r7baaa2b3accb8f,
author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {St Bruno by SLODTZ, René-Michel},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/slodtz-ren-michel-r3d9afef771d567/st-bruno-r7baaa2b3accb8f},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
