Matthäus TERWESTEN (La Haye 1670-Berlin 1757)

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Matthäus TERWESTEN (La Haye 1670-Berlin 1757)
Cybele on her chariot Canvas 166 x 122 cm Signed on the left on the wheel M TERWESTEN Note: Court painter to King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia and professor at the Royal Prussian Academy of Arts, Mattheus Terwesten worked regularly with his older brother, Augustinus, on large-scale palace paintings for which they enjoyed a great reputation among their contemporaries. Indeed, with the architectural elevation of German buildings, largely influenced by Italian Baroque architecture, German monarchs endowed their palaces with large painted decorations for which the Terwestern brothers were often called upon. In our painting the posture of the goddess quotes a female figure widely used in Augustinus' painting; he uses it in his Europe of the imperial palace in Berlin (R. Collela et al, Götter und Helden für Berlin, Berlin, 1995, reproduced, fig. 1.4).as well as for the ceiling of the porcelain cabinet in Oranienburg Castle (op. cit., reproduced, p.95). Matthäus depicts this type of young woman, this time in the guise of the Phrygian Greek deity Cybele. In her left hand, she is riding in a lion-drawn chariot, holding the keys that open the gates to the riches of the earth, and in her right hand, a tower that refers to the cities she protects.
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