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FALCONET, TIENNE MAURICE (1716-1791)

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FALCONET, TIENNE See also:MAURICE (1716-1791) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born in See also:Paris. His parents were poor, and he was at first apprenticed to a See also:carpenter, but some of his See also:clay-figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure See also:hours, attracted the See also:notice of the sculptor Lemoine, who made him his See also:pupil. He found See also:time to study See also:Greek and Latin, and also wrote several brochures on See also:art. His See also:artistic productions are characterized by the same defects as his writings, for though manifesting consider-able cleverness and some See also:power of See also:imagination, they display in many cases a false and fantastic See also:taste, the result, most probably, of an excessive striving after originality. One of his most successful statues was one of See also:Milo of See also:Crotona, which secured his See also:admission to the membership of the See also:Academy of See also:Fine Arts in 1754. AE the invitation of the empress See also:Catherine he went in 1766 to St See also:Petersburg, where he executed a See also:colossal statue of See also:Peter the See also:Great in See also:bronze. In 1788 he became director of the French Academy of See also:Painting. Many of Falconet's See also:works, being placed in churches, were destroyed at the time of the French Revolution. His " Nymphe descendant au See also:bain " is in the Louvre. Among his writings are Reflexions sur la See also:sculpture (Paris, 1768), and Observations sur la statue de Marc-Aurele (Paris, 1771). The whole were collected under the See also:title of Euvres litteraires (6 vols., See also:Lausanne, 1781–1782 ; 3 vols., Paris, 1787).

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