See also:LUDWIG See also:MICHAEL See also:SCHWANTHALER (1802-1848)
, See also:German sculptor, was See also:born in See also:Munich on the 26th of See also:August 1802
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His See also:family had been sculptors in See also:Tirol for three centuries; See also:young See also:Ludwig received his earliest lessons from his See also:father, and the father had been instructed by the grandfather
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The last to See also:bear the name was Xaver, who worked in his See also:cousin Ludwig's studio and survived till 1854
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For successive generations the family lived by the See also:carving of busts and sepulchral monuments, and from the See also:condition of See also:mechanics See also:rose to that of artists
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From the Munich gymnasium See also:Schwanthaler passed as a student to the Munich See also:academy; at first he purposed to be a painter, but afterwards reverted to the plastic arts of his ancestors
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His talents received timely encouragement by a See also:commission for an elaborate See also:silver service for the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's table
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See also:Cornelius also befriended him; the See also:great painter was occupied on designs for the decoration in See also:fresco of the newly erected See also:Glyptothek, and at his See also:suggestion Schwanthaler was employed on the See also:sculpture within the halls
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Thus arose between See also:painting, sculpture, and See also:architecture that See also:union and mutual support which characterized the revival of the arts in See also:Bavaria
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Schwanthaler in 1826 went to See also:Italy as a pensioner of the king, and on a second visit in 1832 See also:Thorwaldsen gave him kindly help
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His skill was so See also:developed that on his return he was able to meet the extra-See also:ordinary demand for sculpture consequent on King Ludwig's See also:passion for See also:building new palaces, churches, galleries and museums, and he became the See also:fellow-worker of the architects Klenze, Gartner and Ohlmuller, and of the painters Cornelius, Schnorr and See also:Hess
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Owing to the magnitude and multitude of the plastic products they turned out, over-pressure and haste in See also:design and workmanship brought down the quality of the See also:art
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The See also:works of Schwanthaler in Munich are so many and See also:miscellaneous that they can only be briefly indicated
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The new See also:palace is peopled with his statues: the See also:throne-See also:room has twelve imposing gilt See also:bronze figures to ft. high; the same palace is also enriched with a See also:frieze and with sundry other decorations modelled and painted from his drawings
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The sculptor, like his contemporary painters, received help from trained pupils
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The same prolific artist also furnished the old Pinakothek with twenty-five See also:marbles, commemorative of as many great painters; likewise he supplied a See also:composition for the See also:pediment of the See also:exhibition building facing the Glyptothek, and executed sundry figures for the public library and the See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall of the marshals
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Sacred art See also:lay outside his ordinary routine, yet in the churches of St Ludwig and St Mariahilf he gave See also:- PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)
proof of the widest versatility
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The Ruhmeshalle afforded further See also:gauge of unexampled See also:power of See also:production; here alone is See also:work which, if adequately studied, might have occupied a lifetime; ninety-two metopes, and, conspicuously, the See also:colossal but feeble figure of Bavaria, 6o ft. high, See also:rank among the boldest experiments
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A See also:short See also:life of See also:forty-six years did not permit serious undertakings beyond the Bavarian See also:capital, yet See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was found for the See also:groups within the See also:north pediment of the Walhalla, Ratisbon, and also for numerous portrait statues, including those of See also:Mozart, See also:Jean See also:Paul See also:Richter, See also:Goethe and See also:Shakespeare
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Schwanthaler died at Munich in 1848, and See also:left by will to the Munich academy all his See also:models and studies, which now See also:form the Schwanthaler Museum
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