信仰、希望和慈善 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	信仰、希望和慈善
品名（英）	Faith, Hope and Charity
入馆年号	2002年，2002.175.1–.3
策展部门	欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术（European Sculpture and Decorative Arts）
创作者	Balthasar Ferdinand Moll【1717 至 1785】【奥地利人】
创作年份	公元 1735 - 公元 1745
创作地区
分类	雕塑（Sculpture）
尺寸	Faith: 32.8 厘米., Love: 36.3 厘米., Hope 32 厘米.
介绍（中）	莫尔作为奥地利主要雕塑家的声誉主要建立在位于维也纳卡普钦教堂的哈布斯堡王朝国家陵墓上。其中包括晚期巴洛克雕塑中最辉煌的例子之一，1753-54年为玛丽亚·特蕾莎皇后（1780年）和她的配偶洛林的弗朗西斯一世（1765年）制作的双石棺。这位雕塑家的第一个主要项目完成于1739年，是维也纳塞尔维特教堂讲坛的具象装饰。博物馆的小雕像是为讲坛加冕的不朽人物的小规模版本：神学美德信仰、爱（慈善）和希望。然而，由于缺乏属性，我们只能假设我们的人物是独立的艺术作品，而不是虔诚的对象。他们的风格呼应了奥地利雕塑家格奥尔格·拉斐尔·唐纳（1693-1741）的影响。胡桃木和深色象牙的强烈对比形式和巧妙区分的饰面利用了光影效果，唤起了这一时期青铜雕塑统一的人工画廊光泽。表面工具几乎像金属一样的外观展示了艺术家的精湛技艺，这可能是Moll在18世纪维也纳雕塑金属铸造发展中的突出地位的早期证明。
介绍（英）	Moll's reputation as a major Austrian sculptor rests mainly on state tombs for the Habsburgs located in the Capuchin church in Vienna. These include one of the most splendid examples of late Baroque sculpture, the double sarcophagus made in 1753–54 for Empress Maria Theresa (d. 1780) and her consort, Francis I of Lorraine (d. 1765). The sculptor's first major project, completed in 1739, was the figurative decoration for the pulpit of the Church of the Servites, Vienna. The Museum's statuettes are small-scale versions of the monumental figures crowning the pulpit: the theological virtues Faith, Love (Charity), and Hope. However, because of the lack of attributes, we can only assume that our figures served as independent works of art rather than as devotional objects. Their style echoes the influence of the Austrian sculptor Georg Raphael Donner (1693–1741). The strongly contrasted forms and the skillfully differentiated finishes of the walnut and dark-stained ivory take advantage of effects of light and shadow and evoke the unifying artificial gallery patina of bronze sculpture of this period. The almost metal-like appearance of the surface tooling demonstrates the artist's virtuosity and may be an early testament to Moll's prominent place in the development of sculptural metal casting in eighteenth-century Vienna.