Little attention has been paid to the extensive artistic oeuvres of Francesco and Felice Barazzutti in Styria. This scientific article sheds light on the reception of their paintings as well as the cooperation between the commissioners and the painters. Special attention is paid to Felice's ceiling paintings in the pilgrimage church of St. Vitus on Vogau (St. Veit am Vogau), which represent the most obvious example of secular topics in a church interior in the Styrian art of the early 20th century. The church authorities did not agreed with the painted motivs, since the painter and his commissioner, priest Johann Saurugg, exceeded the limits of painting, acceptable in church interiors (the family of the deposed emperor Otto of Hapsburg, Karl Marx, revolution, portraits of soldiers, who died in World War I).
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As the Governor of Bischoflack Dominion in possession of the Freising Bishops, Joseph Anton Eusebius Baron Halden of Neidberg supported the construction of the Capuchin monastery and church in Škofja Loka, collecting funds (he himself contributed 2,730 florins) and keeping a register of the financial assets during the construction works. He had two altars made for the new church and several images painted for the monastery (e.g. portrait of Johann Franz Eckher, Bishop of Freising, and portrait of himself). The painting of Mariahilf for the Virgin’s altar, copied after Lucas Cranach, probably originates in the German space. A stylistic and comparative analysis of the painting Death of St. Anne (1711–1713) on the high altar allows us to attribute it to the Austrian painter Johann Carl Reslfeld. The Škofja Loka altarpiece belongs among his most outstanding achievements.
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Chapter in the festschrift in honour of the most recognised Austrian researcher of 13th century architecture, prof. Mario Schwarz. It provides a comprehensive survey of the sacral monuments in Slovenia that have been associated with Styrian and Austrian duke Leopold VI. of Babenberg. The new discoveries and the analysis of monuments in wider context enabled the author to reject several older hypotheses. The author arguments that the duke took part in the establishing of parish and monastic networks of the early Gothic churches in Lower Styria.
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