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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.
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.
Sculptures by François Duquesnoy (16 P) S. Sculptures by Gian Lorenzo Bernini (2 C, 48 P, 2 F) Pages in category "17th-century sculptures" ... Statue of A'a from Rurutu;
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Adonis (Duquesnoy) Apollo and Daphne (Bernini) B. Bacchanal of Putti; Blessed Soul (Bernini) Bust of Alessandro Peretti di Montalto; Bust of Antonio Barberini (Bernini)
The statue was sculpted in accordance with Duquesnoy's own conception of great ancient sculptures' characteristics; however, the statue is extremely naturalistic. This aspect was not present in many ancient Roman sculptures. Duquesnoy gave the figure its naturalistic aspect through painstaking carving.
Manneken Pis, original bronze statue by Jérôme Duquesnoy (I), 1619. The one at the junction of the Rue de l'Étuve / Stoofstraat and the Rue du Chêne / Eikstraat is a replica from 1965. Sculpture in Brussels has been created since the Middle Ages to the present day. [ 1 ]