Faith, Hope and Charity ca. 1739-40 Balthasar Ferdinand Moll Austrian 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 differentiat

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Faith, Hope and Charity ca. 1739-40 Balthasar Ferdinand Moll Austrian 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 differentiat

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