History of Art: Architecture and Sculpture

Dictionary of Art and Artists

	History of Architecture and Sculpture


	CONTENTS:
	PART ONE THE ANCIENT WORLD PREHISTORIC ART EGYPTIAN ART ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN ART AEGEAN ART GREEK ART ETRUSCAN ART ROMAN ART EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE ART PART TWO THE MIDDLE AGES EARLY MEDIEVAL ART ROMANESQUE ART GOTHIC ART PART THREE THE RENAISSANCE THROUGH THE ROCOCO LATE GOTHIC THE EARLY RENAISSANCE IN ITALY THE HIGH RENAISSANCE IN ITALY MANNERISM AND OTHER TRENDS THE RENAISSANCE IN THE NORTH THE BAROQUE IN ITALY AND SPAIN THE BAROQUE IN FLANDERS AND HOLLAND THE BAROQUE THE ROCOCO PART FOUR THE MODERN WORLD NEOCLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM REALISM AND IMPRESSIONISM POST-IMPRESSIONISM, SYMBOLISM, AND ART NOUVEAU PART FIVE TWENTIETH-CENTURY TWENTIETH-CENTURY SCULPTURE TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE INDEX FIGURES

CHAPTER NINE

THE ROCOCO

ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE - Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14
PAINTING

ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE

Etienne-Maurice Falconet.

Étienne-Maurice Falconet

Étienne-Maurice Falconet, (born Dec. 1, 1716, Paris�died Jan. 24, 1791, Paris), sculptor who adapted the classical style of the French Baroque to an intimate and decorative Rococo ideal. He was patronized by Mme de Pompadour and is best known for his small sculptures on mythological and genre themes and for the designs he made for the Sèvres porcelain factory.

Falconet was a pupil of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He was received in the French Royal Academy in 1754 and soon after began to enjoy royal and official patronage. In 1757 Mme de Pompadour appointed Falconet director of the sculpture studios at the Sèvres porcelain factory. While director, he executed many models for the factory and produced small sculptures of mythological figures, such as Venus and Cupid, and a series of nude female bathers. He also executed a few monumental and religious works. In 1766 he was summoned to Russia by Catherine II at the suggestion of his friend Denis Diderot to produce a bronze equestrian statue of Peter the Great for St. Petersburg. The resulting work, dedicated in 1782, is one of the most powerful and original equestrian portraits of the age. Falconet left Russia in 1778, and, soon after, he suffered a debilitating stroke that left him unable to sculpt.

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Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Clock: The Three Graces
c. 1770
White marble, gilt bronze, height 80 cm
Mus�e du Louvre, Paris

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Clock: The Three Graces
c. 1770
White marble, gilt bronze, height 80 cm
Mus�e du Louvre, Paris

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Milo of Croton
1754
Marble, height 66 cm
Mus�e du Louvre, Paris

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Seated Cupid
1757
Marble, height 48 cm
Mus�e du Louvre, Paris

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Flora
c. 1751
Marble
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Louis XV
Biscuit porcelain, height: 33 cm
Mus�e Lambinet, Versailles

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. The Oracle
1766
Biscuit, height 14 cm
Mus�e National de C�ramique, S�vres

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Winter.
1763-1771
Marble
Hermitage (St Petersburg, Russian Federation)

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Bathing Girl
Marble
Musee du Louvre (Paris, France)

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Bathing nymph

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. La Musique
Marbre

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Pygmalion and Galatea
1763
Marble, height 83 cm
Mus�e du Louvre, Paris

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Pygmalion and Galatea

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Pygmalion et Galatée (detail)
Marbre

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Biscuit porcelain figure

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Flore

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Psyche biscuit

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Nymph Seated

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Monument to Peter the Great
1776-77
Bronze
St. Petersburg

Etienne-Maurice Falconet. Monument to Peter the Great
1776-77
Bronze
St. Petersburg

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