Another shot was made during the evacuation of Pinzel’s pieces. The restorer is holding the figure of Abraham from the scene of the Binding of Isaac at the All Saints Church in Hodowica. The image was carved from limewood in the late 1750s. Lviv was at the crossroads of northern and southern influences. Being on the periphery of the Catholic world, numerous architects of Italian origin were invited to work there, like Paolo Dominici Romanus. It was also the place where some humanists, like Filippo Buonaccorsi, found shelter from being persecuted by the Church in Italian lands. Northern influence was brought into the city by migrants from German territories, mostly merchants and craftsmen from Rheinland and Saxony. Similarly, Pinzel’s oeuvre contains the echoes of both southern and northern cultural realms: it has the baroque exuberance of Nicola Fumo’s wooden religious sculptures and the grotesque hypertrophy of forms in the altarpieces by Franz Ignaz Günther.

Elena Subach – Hidden

Elena Subach – Hidden curated by Oleksandra Osadcha Content April 19 – July 3, 2023 Bibliotheca Hertziana – Max Planck Institute for Art History Palazzo Zuccari, Via Gregoriana, 28, 00187 Rome RM Evacuating Johann Georg Pinzel’s wooden sculpture of Abraham, originally made for the altar of the Church of All Saints in the village of Hodowica Hidden / CXOBAHE The photographic reproduction of art has a long history, dating back to the advent of photography itself. It was initially perceived as an inexpensive and effective means of disseminating knowledge about art. André Malraux, who introduced the concept of the “museum ... Read more

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