The Life and Career of Daniel Schmidely Born in Pressburg in 1705, Daniel Schmidely spent his life navigating the social and artistic circles of a changing Central Europe. He was a painter and portraitist who became a familiar presence in the local landscape. Throughout his career, his name appeared in various forms, reflecting the linguistic shifts of the era. He was known variously as Daniel Schmiddeli, Daniel Schmitteli, Daniel Schmidelius, Daniel Schmidelli, and Daniel Schmidelly. His work was deeply tied to the people of his time. As a portraitist, he focused his attention on the faces…
A chart of Daniel Schmidely's corpus mapped not by date but by subject. Spokes are what they painted; rings are when; and the threads between stars reveal the patrons and places that secretly connect them.
Each arm of the atlas gathers works by what they depict: portraits, sacred scenes, mythologies, and the scientific studies. Click a spoke to swing that cluster to the top.
Distance from the center marks time. The innermost ring is the earliest period; the outermost, the final years. Style matures as you move outward.
Coloured lines link works bound by the same patron, commission, or theme. Trace a context to watch related clusters light up across subjects.