Instytut Historii Sztuki <Danzig> [Hrsg.]; Zakład Historii Sztuki <Danzig> [Hrsg.]: Porta Aurea: Rocznik Instytutu Historii Sztuki Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego (13.2014)

Fig. 15. Andreas Schluter and Workshop, Plaster-Cast of the Relief from the Tomb of Jakub
Sobieski (c. 1692-1694), Parish Church, Żółkiew

Kameke (1711-12) in Berlin,57 a no-longer extant Relief of Flora from the
street faęade showed a distinctly Rococo-style composition, incidentally,
a quite novel manifestation in contrast to previous designs seen in the artist’s
oeuvre. It is very comparable in appearance and style to that of the Gdańsk
drawing with a female figure seated on fluffy clouds and a long swath of flut-
tering drapery blown high above her head, although here the goddess was
attended by a putto bearing a basket of flowers, while she herself dispersed
blossoms strewn to the wind.58 (fig. 17a)
In addition, from the same villa, a small Putto with Tamborine and Flower
Garland (c. 1711-12) presently kept in Berlins Bode Museum can serve as
further proof testifying to the existence of this stylistic approach seen in the
artist’s later production.59 (fig. 17b) The freer, much looser treatment of the fig-
ure’s pose and floral vegetation are very different from his earlier works. More
on this progressive tendency in his art will be discussed below.

57 See: Ladendorf, Andreas Schluter..., p. 101-103. - Helmut Lorenz, Andreas Schluter’s
Landhaus Kameke in Berlin, “Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte” 1993, Bd. 57, Nr. 2, p. 153-172.
58 The relief survived severe damage during World War II, but was later destroyed when
the East German civic authorities dynamited the building’s ruins on 26 September 1946.
Karl Rodemann, Das Berliner Schloss und sein Untergang. Ein Bildbericht uber die Zerstdrung
Berliner Kulturdenkmaler, Berlin 1951, p. 78 (fig. 104).
59 Miihlbacher, Friindt, Andreas Schluter..., p. 24, 31.

Some Notes on
Two Allegorical
Drawings
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