EINE UNBEKANNTE ARBEIT VON JOSEPH IGNAZ MILDORFER: DIE FRESKEN IM TURMZIMMER DES SCHLOSSES SÁRVÁR

Enikő Buzási

doi:10.1556/ahista.42.2001.1-4.12

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 42: Issue 1-4

EINE UNBEKANNTE ARBEIT VON JOSEPH IGNAZ MILDORFER: DIE FRESKEN IM TURMZIMMER DES SCHLOSSES SÁRVÁR

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Enikő Buzási

Enikő Buzási Hungarian National Gallery, H-1250 Budapest 1, PoBox 31.

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Pages:: 149–168

Online Publication Date:: 01 Mar 2001

Publication Date:: 01 Mar 2001

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/ahista.42.2001.1-4.12

Keywords (German):: Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer; Austrian Baroque Paintig; Iconography of Library; Patronage of Art in Hungary; Count Szluha Family

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The ceiling fresco of the tower-room in Sárvár Castle follows with a few iconographic and compositional changes the fresco of Daniel Gran (1730) in the main hall of the Hofbibliothek (at present Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) in Vienna. The frescoes, in a bad condition and restored in 1960, were held to be works by Stefan Dorffmeister form the end of the 1760s. Mainly on the basis of its compositional qualities, the frescoes in Sárvár show many ressenblances with works by Joseph Ignaz Mildorfer, made in the 1750s and 1760s for Hungarian patrons, among them the ceiling of the Chapel in the Esterházy Castle in Pápa (1758), the dome-fresco of the Chapel (1964) and the ceiling in the main hall (1766/67) of the Palacee of Eszterháza. The closest relationship can be observed with the painted decoration of the state room of the Forgách Castle in Gács (Halič, Slovakia, early 1760s). The frescoes in S Sárvár can be dated according to the relationships of the owners before 1759, when the Castle belonged to Count Georg Szluha and his wife, Rosalie Sinzendorf (whose mother was a Countess Draskovich). The subject of the painting as well as the choice of the painter could be the result of the Szluha connection with the imperial court and also by the fact that his wife was related to Count Antal Grassalkovich. The latter was in contact with architects at the imperial court (N. Pacassi, J. N. Jadot), working with Mildorfer. The iconography of the tower-room represents a mixture of traditional iconography of libraries and of sale terrene, so its function as a private closet, a kind of Baroque studiolo can be supposed.

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