Giovanni Giuliani
Italian sculptor
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association with Donner
- In Georg Raphael Donner
…Heiligenkreutz, Donner met the sculptor Giovanni Giuliani and was encouraged to take up sculpture, working in Giuliani’s studio and later entering the Vienna Academy. He lived in Salzburg for some years, later returning to Vienna, where he produced his masterpiece, the Providence Fountain (1738–39) on the Neuer Markt. The figures…
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contribution to sculpture
- In Western sculpture: Central Europe
…Italian late Baroque styles of Giovanni Giuliani and Lorenzo Mattielli were supplanted by the cool elegance and classical refinement of Georg Raphael Donner. His preference for the soft sheen of lead gave Austrian Baroque sculpture one of its most distinctive features.
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