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See also:GIRARDON, See also:FRANCOIS (1628-1715) , See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Troyes on the 17th of See also:March 1628. As a boy he had for See also:master a joiner and See also:wood-See also:carver of his native See also:town, named Baudesson, under whom he is said to have worked at the See also:chateau of Liebault, where he attracted the See also:notice of See also:Chancellor Seguier. By the chancellor's See also:influence Girardon was first removed to See also:Paris and placed in the studio of Francois See also:Anguier, and afterwards sent to See also:Rome. In 1652 he was back in See also:France, and seems at once to have addressed himself with something like ignoble subserviency to the task of conciliating the See also:court painter See also:Charles Le Brun. Girardon is reported to have declared himself incapable of composing a See also:group, whether with truth or from motives of policy it is impossible to say. This much is certain, that a very large proportion of his See also:work was carried out from designs by Le Brun, and shows the merits and defects of Le Brun's manner-a See also:great command of ceremonial pomp in presenting his subject, coupled with a large treatment of forms which if it were more expressive might be imposing. The court which Girardon paid to the " premier peintre du roi " was rewarded. An immense quantity of work at See also:Versailles was entrusted to him, and in recognition of the successful See also:execution of four figures for the Bains d'Apollon, Le Brun induced the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king to See also:present his protege personally with a See also:purse of 300 See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis, as a distinguishing See also:mark of royal favour. In 165o Girardon was made member of the See also:Academy, in 1659 See also:professor, in 1674 " adjoint au recteur," and finally in 1695 chancellor. Five years before (169o), on the See also:death of Le Brun, he had also been appointed " inspecteur See also:general See also:des ouvrages de See also:sculpture "—a See also:place of See also:power and profit. In 1699 he completed the See also:bronze equestrian statue of Louis XIV., erected by the town of Paris on the Place Louis le See also:Grand. This statue was melted down during the Revolution, and is known to us only by a small bronze See also:model (Louvre) finished by Girardon himself. His See also:Tomb of See also:Richelieu (See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of the See also:Sorbonne) was saved from destruction by See also:Alexandre Lenoir, who received a See also:bayonet thrust in protecting the See also:head of the See also:cardinal from See also:mutilation. It is a See also:capital example of Girardon's work, and the theatrical pomp of its See also:style is typical of the funeral sculpture of the reigns of Louis XIV. and Louis XV.; but amongst other important specimens yet remaining may also be cited the Tomb of See also:Louvois (St Eustache), that of See also:Bignon, the king's librarian, executed in 1656 (St See also:Nicolas du Chardonneret), and decorative sculptures in the Galerie d'Apollon and Chambre du roi in the Louvre. Mention should not be omitted of the group, signed and dated 1699, " The See also:Rape of See also:Proserpine " at Versailles, which also contains the " See also:Bull of See also:Apollo." Although chiefly occupied at Paris Girardon never forgot his native Troyes, the museum of which town contains some of his best See also:works, including the See also:marble busts of Louis XIV. and Maria See also:Theresa. In the hotel de ville is still shown a medallion of Louis XIV., and in the church of St Remy a bronze crucifix of some importance—both works by his See also:hand. He died in Paris in 1715.
See Corrard de Breban, Notice sur la See also:vie et See also:les oeuvres de Girardon (185o).
End of Article: GIRARDON, FRANCOIS (1628-1715)
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