Matthias Rauchmiller
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Matthias Rauchmiller was a painter, sculptor and ivory carver active and influential in Vienna after 1675. Born on 11 January 1645 in Radolfzell, he died in Vienna on 5 February 1686.
Matthias Rauchmiller's clay model (1681) for the statue of Saint John Nepomuk which was placed on the Charles Bridge in Prague in 1683. Its iconography (bearded priest leaning to one side, wearing biretta, holding crucifix, haloed by five stars) became the archetype for later representations of this saint.
Metternich tomb in the Liebfrauenkirche, Trier, Germany
Plague Column in Vienna, based on Rauchmiller's three-sided design
Jan Brokoff
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Jan Brokoff, also known as Johann Brokoff, was a baroque-era sculptor and woodcarver.
Matthias Rauchmiller
…statues of saints now on the bridge. Rauchmiller's clay model (still on display in the National Gallery of Prague) was executed in wood by sculptor Jan Brokoff, and then cast in bronze by Hieronymus Herold, a bell-maker of Nuremberg. The iconography of Rauchmiller's bozzetto inspired iconography of the saint…
Statues of Saints Barbara, Margaret and Elizabeth on Charles Bridge, Prague (1707)
Statue of Triton in Klášterec nad Ohří castle park - 1685
Statue of John of Nepomuk (1683) on the Charles Bridge, Prague