부산대학교 도서관

(b Berlin, May 13, 1779; d Rome, July 27, 1825). German diplomat, patron, and writer. An uncle of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Bartholdy was a member of a prominent Jewish family in Berlin, who travelled extensively in Europe and Asia Minor through the first years of the 19th century. He converted to Protestantism in 1805 and joined the Austrian campaign of 1809 against Napoleon. By 1814 he was working in association with Karl August von Hardenberg in the Prussian diplomatic service, and his good relations with Cardinal Ercole Consalvi led to his appointment as Prussian consul in Rome in 1815. There he promoted the burgeoning community of German, and especially Prussian, artists. Most notably he commissioned the decoration of a room in the Palazzo Zuccari by Peter Cornelius, Wilhelm Schadow, Philipp Veit, Friedrich Overbeck, and Franz Ludwig Catel. The resulting Casa Bartholdy fresco cycle (1816–17; Berlin, Alte N.G.), which depicts the story of Joseph in Egypt, was the first collective monument of the ...