BROKOV (BROKOFF). - Bohemian sculptors. FERDINAND MAXIMILIAN b. in 1688 at Červený Hrádek, d. in 1731 at Prague.

His principal works of a religious character, which together express the widespread landscape-ornamental taste peculiar to his time, are the numerous and rich sculptural groups carved between 1707 and 1714 for the Charles Bridge in Prague, and the statue of St. Philip (1715) on the new staircase of Prague Castle. In the Czech capital there are, in churches and squares, other sculptures by him, such as, for example, the tomb of Count G. Venceslao of Mitrovice (1715-16), a Holy Family (1718), a Way of the Cross (1720), the models for the silver statues of St. Ludmila, and a St. John of Nepomuk (1727). Outside Prague, notable are a St. Wenceslas (1717) at Rozedalovice, Moses and Aaron (1722) at Wrocław, and another St. John of Nepomuk (1725) at Hozin.

GIOVANNI, father of the preceding, b. in 1652 at Spiská Sobota, d. on 28 Dec. 1718 at Prague.

With his works, lavished in the churches of Prague, Ronsperk, Borek, Broumov, Skramnik, Police and Děčín, he represents effectively, together with his son, with Matyáš Braun, Giovanni Bendl and Petr Brandl (v.) the best tendency of the Baroque in the Czech lands.

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BIBL.: O. Pollak, s. v. in Thieme-Becker, V, pp. 52-53; K. M. Mádl, Dilo F. M. B., in St. śmierć, 1 (1921), p. 24 ff.

Miroslav Stump

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