03 — ARTWORK
Death from the Four Last Things
STAMMEL, Josef Thaddäus · 1760 →
- MEDIUM
- Bronzed wood, height c. 250 cm
- TYPE
- Religious
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Death from the Four Last Things c. 1760 Bronzed wood, height c. 250 cm Collegiate Library, Admont
The artist's extraordinarily expressive figures in the collegiate library, in which local stylistic traditions are combined with formal concepts of the Italian BaroqueThe period in art history from about 1600 to about 1750. In this sense the term covers a wide range of styles and artists. In painting and sculpture there were three main forms of Baroque: (1) sumptuous display, a style associated with the Catholic Counter Reformation and the absolutist courts of Europe (Bernini, Rubens); (2) dramatic realism (Caravaggio); and (3) everyday realism, a development seen in particular in Holland (Rembrandt, Vermeer). In architecture, there was an emphasis on expressiveness and grandeur, achieved through scale, the dramatic use of light and shadow, and increasingly elaborate decoration. In a more limited sense the term Baroque often refers to the first of these categories. The development of the Baroque reflects the period's religious tensions (Catholic versus Protestant); a new and more expansive world view based on science and exploration; and the growth of absolutist monarchies., are based on allegories of transitoriness and motifs of Vanity. The allegorical figures representing the "Four Last Things," including the Death, seriously admonished the visitor to the library to be mindful of the earthly power of death and to put the books at the service of future spiritual salvation.
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