Johan Gregor van der Schardt
Illustration — self-portrait, bust, c. 1573 Johan (or Jan) Gregor van der Schardt (c. 1530/31 in Nijmegen, Netherlands – after 1581 in Denmark) was a sculptor from the Northern Renaissance.
Also recorded as Johann Gregor van der Schardt · Giovanni di Sart · Grégoire van der Schardt · Ian de Sart
Johan Gregor van der Schardt
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- Born
- 1530 · Nijmegen.
- Died
- 1591 · Nuremberg.
- Nationality
- Habsburg Netherlands
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Movements
- Mannerism
- Languages
- Dutch
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Illustration — self-portrait, bust, c. 1573 Johan (or Jan) Gregor van der Schardt (c. 1530/31 in Nijmegen, Netherlands – after 1581 in Denmark) was a sculptor from the Northern Renaissance.
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Life
Life
He toured Italy in the 1560s and among others worked in Bologna. From 1569 to 1576 he was in the service of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna, and subsequently took commissions in Nuremberg, where he specialised in painted terracotta busts. Such a bust includes a self-portrait of about 1573, one of the earliest such examples by a sculptor. From c. 1576 to c. 1580, he worked on the construction of the Uraniborg observatory of the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe on the island of Hven. After 1576 he moved to the royal court of Denmark (with a return to Nuremberg in 1579) where he is presumed to have worked during the 1580s and died in the early 1590s, perhaps at Uraniborg on 30 November 1591. Unusually for a non-Italian artist, his work was praised by Giorgio Vasari.
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• Illustration — Mercurius, ca. 1570/76, Kunsthistorisches Museum • Illustration — Neptune, Metropolitan Museum of Art • Illustration — Portretbuste Willibald Imhoff the Elder, ca. 1570 - ca. 1590 • Illustration — Portrait buste Anna Imhoff, ca. 1580, Bodemuseum • Illustration — Portrait buste Johann Neudörfer the younger
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1530
Johan Gregor van der Schardt born at Nijmegen.
1591
Johan Gregor van der Schardt died at Nuremberg.
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Nijmegen.
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Nuremberg.
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- 1.J. Paul Getty Museum. Johan Gregor van der Schardt.
- 2.Rijksmuseum. Jan Gregor van der Schardt.
- 3.Scholten, Frits. Johan Gregor van der Schardt and the Moment of Self-Portraiture in Sculpture. Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art. 33 (2007/8). 4. 195–220. 2007. 25608493.
- 4.UNESCO Astronomy and World Heritage Webportal - Show entity. www3.astronomicalheritage.net.
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