Konstnär: Leonhard Kern
datum: 1650
storlek: 63 x 44 cm
museum: Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest, Hungary)
Teknik: Sculpture
Like many of his fellow northern artists, Leonhard Kern travelled to Italy as a young man, where he spent no less than five years. The stations of his study tour were more unusual: as well as Rome he visited Naples, northern Africa and Ljubljana. Later he settled in Schwäbisch Hall in southern Germany, where he ran a large workshop. His career was overshadowed by the Thirty-Year War (1618-1648), which almost completely prevented him receiving major commissions. Thus Kern was one of the first to start working for collectors and art dealers. His small-scale ivory, alabaster and wooden statues enjoyed particular popularity among his contemporaries.More than half a metre tall and carved from several pieces of limewood, the Budapest Three Graces occupies a special place in the sculptor
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