. A short history of art . uralistic. Jean Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785) executed the monu-ment of Louis XV. in Rheims. The principal statue wasdestroyed during the revolution, but the statues of Com-merce and the Fatherland remain, the former being oneof the most important examples of naturalistic sculptureof modem times. Pigalles masterpiece, however, is theMercury, of the Louvre. In the latter is also a Mercury,bending his bow, by Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762), whichis Greek in feeling. His masterpiece is the fountain inthe Rue de Grenelle, in Paris. But the greatest sculptor ofthis period was
. A short history of art . uralistic. Jean Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785) executed the monu-ment of Louis XV. in Rheims. The principal statue wasdestroyed during the revolution, but the statues of Com-merce and the Fatherland remain, the former being oneof the most important examples of naturalistic sculptureof modem times. Pigalles masterpiece, however, is theMercury, of the Louvre. In the latter is also a Mercury,bending his bow, by Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762), whichis Greek in feeling. His masterpiece is the fountain inthe Rue de Grenelle, in Paris. But the greatest sculptor ofthis period was Jean Antoine Houdon (1741-1828). Hisadvice to his students was: Copy, copy alt^ays, and aboveall, copy accurately. While he occasionally produced anideal statue, such as the Diana, of the Louvre, his geniuswas best displayed in portraiture. The most famous ex-amples are the seated figures of Voltaire and Rousseau,and busts of Rousseau, Louis XVI., Franklin, Mirabeau,Lafayette, and Bonaparte. He paid a visit to America and. HIKAM POWERS COllCORAN AllT THE GREEK SLAVEThe first example of a nude statue, by an Ameri-can, made in Rome under the infiuenoe ofCanova and Thorwaldsen.
Size: 1083px × 2307px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., boo, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectart, bookyear1913
