Friday, December 02, 2011
RANDOM ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA
FALCONET, ETIENNE,MAURICE(1716-1791)- a french sculptor. b paris, his parents were poor + he was apprenticed to a carpenter, but some of his clay figures, which he did at liesure, attracted notice of lenoine, he scuptor, + made him his pupil. while diligently studying, he also studied greek + latin, + wrote brosures on art, where he treats ancient + modern art in a remarkably disparaging way. his artistic productions are charcterized by the same the 'same defects' as his writings, tho manifestations of cleaverness + imagination, they display a false + fantastic taste, the result of an excessive striving for origiality. one of his most successful was 'milo of crotona'. many destroyed during the revolution. for catherine the great, went to st peterburg to do a collosal bronze of peter the great.
gee, i think he did nice ones. were the destrored ones more out there?
