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Claudio Monteverdi

1567 ⇦ 76⇨ 1643 

Ocupació: Opera composer, choreographer, musicologist, music theorist, viola player, Catholic priest (since 1630), classical music composer, musician, singer and composer


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Claudio Monteverdi conducting the opera.

The statue shown in the video is a prototype and graphic representation, or 'rendering', of the sculpture. While the final physical statue may differ somewhat in chromatic appearance, it is possible to create an exact replica using materials like resin or lost-wax bronze casting.

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Claudio Monteverdi conducting the opera.

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Creation Process

  • I start a research on the character, read the biography and search all the information and images available on the web.
  • That’s when I start to get involved, reflect and get familiar with the character.
  • That’s when I start putting on “clay” paper the ideas and every detail of the character. The pose and attitude of the model is the basic part of the statue, I look for the best composition that reproduces and eternalizes our character. Model one or more sketches with Chavant Fine Art. Sculpting Clay.

Ideas born with clay!

  • Thanks to the new technologies of digital modeling and their knowledge, I can mold and express myself with 3D in the same way as when I do it with clay.
  • I use the most modern programs on the market, I start to mold in 3D the sketch made previously molded with Chavant clay.
  • In 3D modeling I reproduce one of the most difficult things to achieve in the digital world, the look and feel of real clay sculptures. I flee from hyperrealism, I want to leave my print, my line, my personal style.
  • I have located only two portraits of Emily Dickinson: 'Amherst' and that of Emily Dickinson and Kate Scott Turner of 1859, I have been guided by the recently discovered daguerreotype, showing her as a mature woman displaying a striking presence, strength and serenity, rather than as a teenager.
  • For Emily Dickinson's dress I have taken as a reference the portrait of 'Amherst'.
  • Before finishing the statue, I make a rendering of the prototype and a graphic representation, to see how it would look in reality, then that is when I make the final modeling touches.
  • Thanks to technology, today it is possible to print sculptures made in 3D with high quality resin. With SLA printers designed for use by artists.
  • What do you think Leonardo da Vinci, the Van Eyck brothers, the Impressionist painters and the vast majority of artists would do? advance, evolve!
  • All statues are painted with the highest quality Royal Talens Rembrandt acrylic color paints and brush.
  • If the statues are not exhibited, displayed, and disseminated, what is the point of all this work?
  • I want my work to be known and, taking advantage of the rendering, I make the relevant photos and videos to insert on the website and edit the creative spots of each character.
  • All these statues, in short, are the maquettes of the statues that I would like to mold in real size 1:1 with clay and then cast them in bronze.

“Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.“    (Wiki - Claudio Monteverdi)

Citations consulted.

Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi, 1640 | Bernardo Strozzi (1567-1643)
Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), 19th century portrait | Etching by Barberis
Bronze bust of Claudio Monteverdi in cremona, Italy, 10 October 2014 | Rei Momo
Monteverdi bust, by the gravea of Claudio Monteverdi, 1960 | Operaház, Budapest
Claudio Monteverdi Documental
🎶 Claudio Monteverdi | Músicos Célebres (Historias Cortas)
This Is Opera. El Nacimiento De La Opera (Claudio Monteverdi).
Portraits of composer Claudio Monteverdi, 1633 | Bernardo Strozzi (1567-1643)
Title page of Fiori poetici, a book of commemorative poems for the funeral of Claudio Monteverdi, with the only certain portrait image of the composer, 1644 | Drawer / engraver : Unknown
Retrato de Monteverdi, Unknown date | Domenico Fetti
Monteverdi bust, by the gravea of Claudio Monteverdi,  | 
Paris, Opéra Garnier, buste de Monteverde,  | Gallica.bnf.fr
La Bella Musica di Monteverdi | Sir John Eliot Gardiner
L' ORFEO: Favola in Musica (Claudio Monteverdi) - Representación de Jordi Savall
Portrait of an Actor – The subject of this portrait is uncertain: the Hermitage Museum suggests Tristano Martinelli or Francesco Andreini, between 1621 and 1622 | Domenico Fetti
Claudio Monteverdi's portrait in the Museo Correr in Venice., Unknown date | Unknown author
Portrait of a Man with a Sheet of Music, about 1620  | Domenico Fetti
Monteverdi bust, by the gravea of Claudio Monteverdi,  | 
Claudio Monteverdi: Puer Natus (Chiome d'oro); Voices of Music
Claudio Monteverdi: Laudate Dominum in Sanctis Eius; Sherezade Panthaki & Voices of Music (SV 287)
Claudio Monteverdi – L'Orfeo

Citations consulted. Mendeley

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