Cirilo Volkmar Machado
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Cirilo Volkmar Machado[a] (Lisbon, 1748–1823) is considered to have been the first historian of Portuguese art. He was also a Portuguese painter, sculptor and architect.[1]
Life and work[edit]
Volkmar Machado was educated in Rome. On his return to Portugal, he attempted to create the 'Nude Academy'. He painted panels and ceilings in churches, palaces, noble houses, and public buildings. He is the author of the project of the Oporto Relationship Chain and also produced some paintings in the remodelling of Palácio Nacional de Mafra, Palacio do Grilo, and Palácio Nacional da Ajuda, namely his exquisite frescos on the ceilings regularly exhibiting his tromp l'oeil technique in framings and other archtechtonic elements.[2]
He gathered an extensive collection of memories about painters, sculptors, and architects working in Portugal, which were posthumously published in his book:
"Collection of memories, concerning the lives of Portuguese and foreign painters, sculptors, architects and engravers.", Lisboa, Impr. Victorino Rodrigues da Silva, 1823.
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Because the book was unpublished, the editor opened the introduction with the following statement:
"We consider to be providing a great service to our Motherland, and to our National Glory, by publishing these Memoirs, which the author has collected with great work, and whose modesty, as well as natural recollective nature, have not allowed him to publish it over the course of his lifetime. No one may doubt that there are very few, and even unpublished the news of all those Artists, who have ennobled the Nation through their Works, when the Vasaris, Rafaeis Sopranes, Rossis, Leonardos da Vinci, and Palominos, occupied themselves in leaving a precious monument to posteriority, there has been among us the most ungrateful silence, not perpetuating the memory of many Portuguese artists in them engraved."[3]
"Cyrillo Volkmar Machado" is the title of the 27th letter that Count Atanazy Raczyński, representative of the Prussian government in Portugal, wrote in his manuscript about art in Portugal.
Published works[edit]
- Collection of memories, concerning the lives of Portuguese and foreign painters, sculptors, architects and engravers. Lisboa, Impr. Victorino Rodrigues da Silva, 1823.
- Conversations on painting, sculpture, and architecture. Lisboa, Of. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1794–1798.
- New painting academy: dedicated to the Portuguese ladies who love or apply themselves to the study of Fine Arts. Lisboa, Impressão Regia, 1817.
References[edit]
- ^ "Manifesto | monumento de mafra virtual". www.cesdies.net. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
- ^ José Sarmento, PAULO, Jorge Ferreira, Caminhos do Oriente - Guia Histórico, Lisboa, Livros Horizonte, 1999;
- ^ Collection of memories, concerning the lives of Portuguese and foreign painters, sculptors, architects and engravers. Lisboa, Impr. Victorino Rodrigues da Silva, 1823.
External links[edit]
- Scholarly articles about Cyrillo Volkmar Machado both in web and PDF @ the Spanish Old Masters Gallery
Notes[edit]
- ^ Alternatively rendered as Cyrillo Volkmar Machado, as it was usually spelt contemporaneously.
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