Die mittelalterlichen Wasserspeier vom Turm des Franziskanerklosters in Bratislava auf Mockers Skizzen aus dem Jahr 1862
Medieval Gargoyles of the Franciscan Monastery Tower in Bratislava on Mocker’s Sketches Dated 1862
Author(s): Hana TomagováSubject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture, Visual Arts, Historical Geography, 19th Century, History of Art
Published by: Slovenská akadémie vied - Centrum vied o umení
Keywords: Franciscan monastery tower in Bratislava; gargoyles; motif of the so-called Judensau; architect Josef Mocker; Viennese Building Lodge „Wiener Bauhütte“; tower in Janko Kráľ´s Garden in Bratislava
Summary/Abstract: The article presents an analysis of an unknown iconographic source hitherto – two sketches by architect Josef Mocker (1835–1899), depicting Gothic gargoyles of the Franciscan monastery tower in Bratislava, including their exact position on the tower. Their placement into the context of study trips of Friedrich von Schmidt´s (1825–1891) students at the Viennese Academy of Fine Arts in the second half of the 19th century, and, simultaneously, their comparison with selected archival references, literature, period photographs and neo-Gothic copies of gargoyles on the tower, brings about new findings on the original forms of these Gothic architectural components, preserved to the present day only as fragments on the tower in Janko Kráľ´s Garden in Bratislava-Petržalka.
Journal: ARS
- Issue Year: 57/2024
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 140-151
- Page Count: 12
- Language: German
