Lorenzo Mattielli - Works

Works

Works by Lorenzo Mattielli can be found in

Vienna :

  • former Palais Engelskirchner, 1711- 15 : only four Attika statues remain
  • House of Count Lazansky (1714) (attributed to Mattielli) (demolished in 1895)
  • former Hirschstetten Palace, 1714–1716
  • Hetzendorf Palace (1716–1718)
  • Harrach Palace (1720)
  • Garden of the Schwarzenberg Palace (1719–1724). Especially the Ragged Old Woman with a Pig is remarkable. This statue of an ugly, grimacing hag seems to be the product of a sickly imagination. In this he predates the contorted faces of “character heads” made by the sculptor Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736–1783).
  • Upper Belvedere (1721–1722) : hall with atlases
  • Dominikanerkirche (Vienna) (1724)
  • Imperial stables at the Hofburg (1724)
  • Porch of the Michaelerkirche (1724)
  • Karlskirche (1725–1730) : eagles on the columns, relievos at the gable end, altar
  • Church of the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary (1726) (attributed to Mattielli)
  • the former Imperial Library (now the Prunksaal of the Hofburg complex) (1726)
  • Reichkanzleitrakt (in the Hofburg complex) (1728–1729): the Labors of Hercules
  • Nepomuk altar in the Peterskirche (1729)
  • Civilian arsenal (1732)
  • Fountains at the “Am Hof” and “Am Graben” squares (1732–1735)
  • Old City Hall (1735) : Putti at the Andromeda fountain (1734)
  • Church of the Brothers Hospitallers of St. John of God (1735/36)
  • Austrian Baroquemuseum (1736)

Melk Abbey

  • Models for the wooden statues in the church (then carried out by Peter Widerin of St. Pölten)
  • the angels on top of the portal of the eastern façade

Klosterneuburg

  • Several mighty Titans in the Salla terrena (unfinished work)

Warsaw

  • St. Kazimierz Church, tombstone of Karolina Sobieska de Bouillon (1746)

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