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Giovanni Maria Morlaiter
Venice's Rococo chisel master
...the most brilliant interpreter of the rococo in Venetian sculptureSemenzato
If Venetian sculptor Giovanni Maria Morlaiter (1699 - 1781) hadn't worked most of his life in Venice, and left most of his work in a single church, the Gesuati, where he worked side by side with Tiepolo, he'd probably be better known. Many museums around the world have examples of his elaborate candlesticks.
He was a founding member of the Accademia, and also has works in San Marcuola and a statue of San Gerolamo Emiliani in Santa Maria della Salute.
Text © Dana Facaros & Michael Pauls
Image by Wolfgang Moroder, Creative Commons License