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Adonis, also known as Adonis Mazarin, [1] is a marble sculpture by Flemish artist François Duquesnoy, who completed it in the early 17th century.The Adonis bears the signature of Duquesnoy, and the statue, created around an ancient torso, should be indeed accepted as "a veritable artistic creation [of Duquesnoy]". [2]
Sculptures by the 17th-century Flemish sculptor François Duquesnoy. Pages in category "Sculptures by François Duquesnoy" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Mary Jane Jacob is an American curator, writer, and educator from Chicago, Illinois. She is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago , and is the former Executive Director of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies.
Duquesnoy was born in Brussels.Having come from Flanders, Duquesnoy was called Il Fiammingo by the Italians and François Flamand by the French. His father, Jerôme Duquesnoy the Elder, sculptor of the Manneken Pis fountain in Brussels (1619), was the court sculptor to Archduchess Isabella and Archduke Albert, governor of the Low Countries.
Jerôme Duquesnoy (II) or Hieronymus Duquesnoy (II) or the Younger (baptized 8 May 1602 – 28 September 1654) was a Flemish architect and sculptor who was particularly accomplished in portraits. He played an important role in the introduction of the Baroque style in Northern European sculpture.
Mary Jane Jacob, the curator of the exhibition, originally conceived it in 1991, inspired by David Hammons' House of the Future from the 1991 Spoleto Festival USA, which she also curated. [ 1 ] The exhibition, which cost $800,000, was sponsored by nonprofit organization Sculpture Chicago and financially supported by the National Endowment for ...
That was the opening line to a Sept. 5 Facebook post on the Divine Mercy Parish Facebook page announcing the church might get back a statue of the Virgin Mary stolen about a year ago.
Menelaus supporting the body of Patroclus, in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence, Italy. The Pasquino Group (also known as Menelaus Carrying the Body of Patroclus or Ajax Carrying the Body of Achilles) is a group of marble sculptures that copy a Hellenistic bronze original, dating to ca. 200–150 BCE. [1]