German, 17th century, male.
Active in Cologne towards the middle of the 17th century.
Sculptor.
No works by this artist are known. His name is only mentioned in account books.
Article
French, 17th century, male.
Died 1670, in Argentan.
Sculptor.
This artist, probably a member of the Abot family of glass painters, worked in the chapel of the château of Carrouges (Orne), in 1647-1648, especially on the carved wooden panels.
Article
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Rouen during the 17th century.
Sculptor.
Guillaume Abraham was one of the signatories of the statutes of the corporation of painters and sculptors at Rouen in 1631. In 1639 he was working on a statue that was placed under the organ loft in Rouen Cathedral....
Article
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Rouen during the 17th century.
Painter, sculptor.
Pierre Abraham was one of the signatories of the statutes of the corporation of painters and sculptors of Rouen on 17 September 1631.
Article
Natalia Marinho Ferreira Alves
Portuguese family of wood-carvers. Manuel Abreu do Ó and his brother Sebastião Abreu do Ó (both fl Évora c. 1728–c. 1770) worked in collaboration, carving some of the finest and most influential Joanine and Rococo altarpieces in southern Portugal. They carved in delicate flat relief using patterns similar to those found in Spain, a style contrasting with the dramatic plastic effects seen in contemporary wood-carving in northern Portugal.
An example of the Abreu do Ó brothers’ early work is the main retable of the Cartuxa, the Charterhouse, Évora, gilded in 1729. It is composed on one level, and a sense of movement is suggested by the projection of the outer columns. They created one of the finest ensembles of 18th-century carving in southern Portugal in the chancel and transept of the Carmelite church of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios, Évora (c. 1760–70). On the main retable the areas between the column shafts are decorated with leaves and roses scattered asymmetrically, creating the impression of a lace covering. The votive tablet crowning the arch of the retable is carved with great delicacy. The lateral retables have curving double pediments whose undulating movement is echoed by large canopies above. The design of the pulpit was important in southern Portugal, because although it was in the Joanine style and inspired by developments in Lisbon it was also Rococo in spirit. The interior of the church emphasizes the importance of the role that gilt wood-carving played in the decoration of Portuguese churches during the 18th century....
Article
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Grenoble at the end of the 17th century.
Born in St-André-en-Royans (Dauphiné).
Sculptor.
Another Jean Achard, also a sculptor, lived at Grenoble in 1705.
Article
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active Neapolitan, active during the 17th century.
Sculptor.
A poem written by Giovanni Battista Basile in 1627 singles out for special praise one of the works by this artist-cum-jurist.
Article
School of Lorraine, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome in the middle of the 17th century.
Born in Lorraine.
Sculptor.
Filippo Titi states that Claude Adam made a statue for the church of S Pudenziana in Rome. Baldinucci credits him with one of the four statues on the Four Rivers Fountain in the Piazza Navona....
Article
French, 17th century, male.
Born 31 October 1630, in Nancy.
Sculptor.
School of Lorraine.
Jean Adam was the son of one Lambert Adam, who is unrecorded and was probably born around 1600. Jean Adam is thought to be identical with an artist described in 1657...
Article
French, 17th century, male.
Active in Nancy.
Sculptor.
He was the brother of the metal caster, Lambert Adam, and so was uncle to Jacob-Sigisbert Adam.
Article
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome.
Sculptor.
Known in 1664 as the leading stonemason.
Article
Italian, 17th century, male.
Active in Rome in 1695.
Sculptor (wood) (?), engraver (line-engraving) (?).
Article
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Sculptor (stone).
Claes Adriaens came to Amsterdam from Delft around 1611. He is believed to have sent sculptures relating to Hendrik de Keyser from Amsterdam to Nijmegen.
Article
Dutch, 17th century, male.
Active at the beginning of the 17th century.
Sculptor (wood).
In 1604, Michiel Adriaens worked on the decoration of Arnhem town hall.
Article
Flemish School, 17th century, male.
Born in Oudenaarde; died 16 May 1641.
Sculptor.
In 1635, Ghysbrecht Aerents executed a number of works for the church of the Notre-Dame hospital in Oudenaarde; these included a tabernacle and an altar panel.
Article
German, 17th century, male.
Active in Munich.
Died 1621.
Sculptor.
A pupil of Hans Aesslinger, he helped Arnold Abel with the tomb of the emperor Maximilian. In 1571, he gained master status and was commissioned by the court to provide several decorative sculptures for state ceremonies....
Article
Flemish, 16th century, male.
Sculptor.
Flemish School.
Pierre Aerts was one of the representatives of Renaissance art. Around 1540 he produced the monumental door which is located on the east side of the Fortress of Bruges.
Article
Jeffrey Chipps Smith
(b ?Munich, fl 1535; d Munich, 1567).
German sculptor, mason and medallist. In 1536 he became a master sculptor in Munich and shortly afterwards entered the service of Ludwig X, Duke of Bavaria. He moved to Landshut in 1537 to work on the construction of the Italian wing of the ducal Stadtresidenz. In 1555 he travelled to Neuburg an der Donau to oversee the shipment of stone for the palace’s chimneys. He was influenced by and may have assisted Thomas Hering, the sculptor of these chimneys (See under Hering, Loy). Also in 1555 he reverted to Munich citizenship.
The few surviving examples of his sculpture show him to have been an accomplished if somewhat derivative artist. Many seem to have been commissioned by Duke Albrecht V of Bavaria, who paid him an annual salary from 1558 (and perhaps as early as 1551) to 1567. Aesslinger’s limestone reliefs (both 1550) of the Massacre of the Innocents...
Article
Italian, 17th century, male.
Born 1616, in Carrara.
Sculptor.
Studied under Alessandro Algardi and worked in various parts of Italy. Two small statues by him (of St Lawrence and St Andrew) are in Sarzana Cathedral. Elsewhere, his Adonis stood in Count Varita's garden in Lavagna, while his ...
