The natural spotlight is shining on St. John St. Sebastian here. It is about to move on to a different subject. The sculpture is by Melchior Barthel.
Melchior Barthel
b. Dresden 1625 - d. 1672
He trained in Dresden with his sculptor-father Hieronymous, and other masters. He was in Venice by the 1650, and he lived there for 17 years. He worked on a number of important commissions, including the slave figures on the tomb of Doge Giovanni Pesaro (1669; the Frari church), a statue of St. John the Baptist (Scalzi Church), a Crucifix (church of San Bartolomeo) and a mourning female figure for the tomb of the painter Melchiore Lanza (Basilica of Giovanni e Paolo). Barthel was appointed court sculptor in Dresden in 1670. We know of no large works from this period there. He made large copies of groups from Classical antiquity in ivory. Barthel was also known as a master builder, but there is no known evidence of that work of his.
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1) Chiesa degli Scalzi [126]
