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See also:SLODTZ, RENE See also:MICHEL or MICHEL ANGE (1705–1764), See also:French sculptor, was See also:born at See also:Paris. He passed seventeen years at See also:Rome, where he was chosen to execute a statue of St See also:Bruno, one of the best See also:modern See also:works of the class in St See also:- PETER
- PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
- PETER (PEDRO)
- PETER, EPISTLES OF
- PETER, ST
Peter's. He was also the sculptor of the See also:tomb of See also:Marquis See also:Capponi in St See also:John of the Florentines. Other works of his are to be seen at the 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 St 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 of See also:France and at See also:Santa Maria della Scala. After his return to France in 1747, Slodtz, in See also:conjunction with his See also:brothers, See also:Antoine Sebastien and See also:Paul, produced many decorative works in the churches of Paris, and, though much has been destroyed, his most considerable achievement—the tomb of See also:Languet de Gergy in St Sulpice (commissioned in 1750)—still exists. Slodtz was, like his brothers, a member of the See also:Academy of See also:Painting and See also:Sculpture, and many particulars of his See also:life are preserved in a memoir written by See also:Cochin, and also in a See also:letter from the same to the See also:Gazette litteraire, which was reproduced by Castilhon in the Necrologe of 1766.
Slodtz's See also:father, Sebastien (16J5–1726), was also a sculptor, born at See also:Antwerp; he became a See also:- PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)
pupil of See also:Girardon and worked mostly under him at See also:Versailles and the Tuileries. His See also:chief works were " See also:Hannibal " in the Tuileries See also:garden, a statue of St See also:Ambrose in the Palais See also:des Invalides, and a bas-See also:relief " See also:Saint Louis sending missionaries to See also:India."
See C. N. Cochin, Mem. fined. (Paris, 1881); Barbet de See also:Jouy, Sculpture moderne du Louvre (Paris, 1856) ; Duissieux, Artistes See also:francais a l'etranger (Paris, 1852).
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