16 Facts About Antonio Corradini

Antonio Corradini was an Italian Rococo sculptor from Venice.

Antonio Corradini is best known for his illusory veiled depictions of the human body, where the contours of the face and body beneath the veil are discernible.

Antonio Corradini was the son of Gerolamo Antonio Corradini, a professional veler, and his wife Barbara, and born in the parish of SS.

Antonio Corradini seems to have come into his own as a sculptor around 1709.

Antonio Corradini completed the outdoor marble statuary group Nessus and Deianira in 1716 for a patron in Venice but a few years later, it was bought for the Grosser Garten in Dresden.

In 1723, Antonio Corradini reputedly became the first person to legally separate the art of sculptors from the profession of stonemasons, forming part of a college that was established in 1724.

Antonio Corradini was faced with the task of guiding the new artistic profession through its infancy.

Antonio Corradini completed two statues for the Manin monument in the Cathedral of Udine and further two for the church of San Giacomo di Udine.

Antonio Corradini would be based there through the early 1740s.

Antonio Corradini completed a large number of works in Vienna itself during these years.

Charles VI employed him in the decoration of the Josephbrunnen and, later, Antonio Corradini sculpted four figures for the two side altars below the dome of the Karlskirche and designed and supervised the construction of a wooden theater for animal fights called the Hetztheater.

Antonio Corradini designed eight models of colossal statues with which it was proposed to place at the foot of the drum of the dome make it more resistant.

Antonio Corradini sculpted a bust of Pope Benedict XIV and other minor works.

In 1744 Antonio Corradini moved to Naples to oversee the sculptural renovation of the Sansevero Chapel at the request of Raimondo di Sangro, Prince of Sansevero VII.

Antonio Corradini's work on the chapel is a very complex and intricate decoration of statues, pedestals, altar frontals, round and bas-reliefs, for which he prepared 36 bozzetti in clay.

Antonio Corradini was buried there in the parish church of Santa Maria della Rotonda on the same day.