Solomon Dedicates the Temple at Jerusalem
Tissot, James
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Born near Graz, Jo­hann Fis­cher was trained in the work­shop of his fa­ther, a provin­cial ar­ti­san, be­fore de­part­ing for Rome at the pre­co­cious age of 16. He spent the fol­low­ing six­teen years in Italy. In Rome he joined the work­shop of his fel­low Aus­trian Johann Paul Schor and of the great Bernini, who gave him am­ple op­por­tu­ni­ties to study both an­cient and mod­ern sculpture and ar­chi­tec­ture. He then moved to Naples, where he was re­ported to have amassed a con­sid­er­able for­tune serv­ing the Span­ish viceroy.

Back in Aus­tria in 1687, Fis­cher von Er­lach was in­stalled as a fash­ion­able and sought-after ar­chi­tect. Com­mis­sions were plen­ti­ful, as roy­alty and high­est ech­e­lons of aris­toc­racy sought to re­pair dam­age in­flicted on their coun­try res­i­dences by the Ottoman Turks in the course of their 1683 campaign. Fischer's un­der­stand­ing of an ur­bane Baroque id­iom ap­peared su­pe­rior to that preva­lent in Central Europe, and in 1687 he se­cured the key po­si­tion of court ar­chi­tect, which he would re­tain in the ser­vice of three emperors.
The Temple of Solomon, Jerusalem,
from "Entwurf Einer Historischen Architektur," 1721
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